Ok, I'm sure it's obviously simple but how do I get the text to speech to work when I get an incoming message and have it connected to a Bluetooth headset? Do I need an app or is it built in?
Iguana775 said:
Ok, I'm sure it's obviously simple but how do I get the text to speech to work when I get an incoming message and have it connected to a Bluetooth headset? Do I need an app or is it built in?
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If your wanting it to read the text to you I know Handcent SMS will do so. Once you install it , get a message and just press and hold on the message and there should be an option to read. I do not believe the stock app does not have that option.
hmmmm....ok. thanks.
Select swype as your method of input, there is a button on the keyboard that looks like a microphone. You can use that for text-to-talk. I was doing it earlier through my stereo bluetooth headset talking to phidelt.
skitzo_inc said:
Select swype as your method of input, there is a button on the keyboard that looks like a microphone. You can use that for text-to-talk. I was doing it earlier through my stereo bluetooth headset talking to phidelt.
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They were asking for TEXT to SPEECH, not SPEECH to TEXT.
yea, I figured out the speech to text but not the text to speech
i4get75 said:
They were asking for TEXT to SPEECH, not SPEECH to TEXT.
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Wow, I'm fully retarded and unable to read.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, I just thought everyone was stupid except for me. Turns out I'm the stupid one...
Iguana775 said:
Ok, I'm sure it's obviously simple but how do I get the text to speech to work when I get an incoming message and have it connected to a Bluetooth headset? Do I need an app or is it built in?
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check out the free app vlingo. it has safereader that can read both your sms and email messages. it has a whole lot of other features also including (speech to text). so best of both worlds.
cool. thanks durango
Safereader and Handcent
Hi
Did you ever get Safereader to work with Handcent. I've had no success and the developer does not answer my emails.
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So I figured there are a few of us switching to Android from an iPhone, and for most of us it couldn't come soon enough! Figured it'd be nice to have a thread to post questions/answers we have on the migration.
Here are a few of mine:
1. No visual voice mail on AT&T--If you have google voice, enable Google voice mail on the phone in Google Voice>> Settings. I still need to tweak a couple of things, but looks like it will work pretty well. Dialing in to get your voice mail just seems so 2003.
2. Contacts--Google Contacts is what I synced with, however when you sync your contacts with google, you end up with anybody you have ever emailed as the phone doesn't have the option to just pull in 'My Contacts' as of yet. Simple fix is to click options in the Contacts app, Display Options, and click to display only contacts with phones. Not the but works for now until hopefully Samsung addresses this with a fix.
3. Silent toggle--Here is where I'd like some help. There is no hardware toggle for silent mode, and it's pretty annoying to turn on the phone and have to select the 'Silent" profile. Anyone know of an app that will let you use the volume rocker when the phone is locked and the screen is off? Ideally I want to be able to reach in my pocket, hold the volume down key and have the phone vibrate to let me know it's on vibrate mode.
Update!! Widget locker takes care of this perfectly. you can wake the screen with the volume key, and then adjust the ringer volume from the lockscreen.
the silent toggle is what i am wanting too.. i havent got the phone yet, but it will be one thing that is missed from my iphone.. hopefully something like you described will be made..
i dont know if the captivate has it or if it is just a droid thing, but i like the lockscreen for the droid where you can switch it to silent that way too..
Swipe down from the top status bar (the one with the battery indicator). You will then have easy access to toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Silent and Vibration.
There are widgets that you can place on your home screen to deal w/ turning the phone to silent mode.
No Visual Voicemail sucks. Come on, even Blackberrys have visual voicemail. What the hell? Oh well, I probably just will never check my messages again. Most people text if I don't answer anyway. I'll have to see if Google Voice handles it the way I like. I've been wanting to use Google Voice more anyway.
yeah no visual voice mail does suck but there are alternatives but i dont care cause ive never used visual voice mail
Visual voicemail its up to the carrier not android. All HTC sense UI have it. Anyways try Google voice its even better because it convert voicemail to visual text voicemail.
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Is visual voicemail something we could get with custom roms?
sansart said:
Is visual voicemail something we could get with custom roms?
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Seconded. If Sense UI has it, would hacked roms or the like, enable visual voice mail?
yes or no?
No--I believe visual voicemail is on the carriers end of things. For the iPhone AT&T has it set up but not yet for android phones. Hopefully that changes at some point.
Google Voice
Use Google Voice. It can transcribe your voice mails to text.
Free alternative
Just use YouMail its free from the market place. Been using for quite a while now. Works great even on the iPhone.
jromney said:
Use Google Voice. It can transcribe your voice mails to text.
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I Don't know why people are complaining about no visual voicemail, its almost like they are ignoring your post!
Google = Android = Google voice, and its much better than the iphone voicemail. Google voice LOOKS just like the iphone version when you open it up, but it will transcribe what they said into text if you don't feel like listening to the voicemail. It also sends you an e-mail notification that you have a voicemail, and you can also read/hear it through that email on your computer.
For the love of god, why is this a visual voicemail thread... on an Android device...
Sign up for Google Voice. Set it to take over your carrier voicemail. Enjoy superior voicemail experience.
candymann said:
3. Silent toggle--Here is where I'd like some help. There is no hardware toggle for silent mode, and it's pretty annoying to turn on the phone and have to select the 'Silent" profile. Anyone know of an app that will let you use the volume rocker when the phone is locked and the screen is off? Ideally I want to be able to reach in my pocket, hold the volume down key and have the phone vibrate to let me know it's on vibrate mode.
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On the demo unit I just played with at the store, I could hold down the volume key and mute the ringer if the screen was unlocked. I'm not sure if that put it in "silent mode" or not. Also, you have to have a pretty big pocket to fit both hand and device and still have room to swipe the screen...
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getting tired of at&t
I came to AT&T in 2007 because verizons customer service and
billing was so bad. Now AT&T making me feel like I may have to switch again. They keep cripling phones and trying to manipulate the buyer towards the iphone. They're as bad as Steve Jobs in their limitation of chooses for their own agendas. Android is here, and they need to quit dragging their feet and cripling phones that compete with the iphone.
I like google voice, but the transcribing sux. I got a message today that said "A death please call me back" when the person was just saying my name and to call them back. And yesterday my wife called and she said this is Val, but it transcribed This is Dan lol.
Get "No Lock" to get rid of the lock screen. When you press the power or volume buttons it just unlocks the phone. Still requires swipe to pickup call.
The neat thing about that is that you can depress the volume down button until its silent even when its in your pocket
Laaf2005 said:
I like google voice, but the transcribing sux. I got a message today that said "A death please call me back" when the person was just saying my name and to call them back. And yesterday my wife called and she said this is Val, but it transcribed This is Dan lol.
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Bad transcribing is better than no transcribing There are cases where it is very useful (like being able to search)
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Get "No Lock" to get rid of the lock screen. When you press the power or volume buttons it just unlocks the phone. Still requires swipe to pickup call.
The neat thing about that is that you can depress the volume down button until its silent even when its in your pocket
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I downloaded No Lock but didn't have a chance to use it as Widget Locker ($.99) does exactly what I want it to. I downloaded Widget Locker for the widgets on the lockscreen and it also has the option to allow the use of the volume keys at the lockscreen. Just started using it but so far I'm a big fan.
Can you have different notifications for a new email and text message?
Do you mean different audio notifications? I use Ringo Lite so that I can have different audio tones for text messages from different people, as well as to let me know when I have e-mails vs text messages, etc. Works fairly well. Only major complaint that I haven't bothered to figure out yet is that if I get an e-mail or text during a phone call I still get the vibration and sound (which can scare the crap out of you! lol)
Hope this helps.
cybercoaster said:
Can you have different notifications for a new email and text message?
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open your email app
click on menu
click on settings
notification sound
open your messaging app
click on menu
click on settings
notification sound
DUH! I see, I just noticed the one under HOME SETTINGS, I see that is for the default. Thanks.
I'm having a bit of an issue. When I get a text during a call a female robotic voice starts reading out my texts. It makes it hard for me to stay focused during a call. Please tell me there's a way to shut that off!
I wasnt aware this was possible on the Sidekick. did you try opening the menu while in Messages? then setting?
sheek360 said:
I'm having a bit of an issue. When I get a text during a call a female robotic voice starts reading out my texts. It makes it hard for me to stay focused during a call. Please tell me there's a way to shut that off!
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My wife had the same problem. I can't recall the exact solution but check in your settings/ language & input settings/ text-to-speech (or whatever path it is) and search around to ensure that the read aloud settings are not checked. Hope this works. Report back so others can know...
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Looks like the setting you want to change is under Settings>Voice Input and Output> Text-to-speech settings. Sounds like Driving Mode is checked/enabled. uncheck it, and that problem should go away.
I am on a company call as we are patching servers and every time we bounce a server I get a bunch of text notifications which is expected. The only issue is I am wearing headphones for the call on my honor 8 and I hear the notification sound in the headphones. Super annoying! Any way to turn this off??? Thanks in Advance.
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I am on a company call as we are patching servers and every time we bounce a server I get a bunch of text notifications which is expected. The only issue is I am wearing headphones for the call on my honor 8 and I hear the notification sound in the headphones. Super annoying! Any way to turn this off??? Thanks in Advance.
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I don't think Emui has a automatic option. But you can always set notifications to silent or vibrate only.
I suppose there would be an app that changes the sound profile according to phone activity, but never looked for it.
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I don't think Emui has a automatic option. But you can always set notifications to silent or vibrate only.
I suppose there would be an app that changes the sound profile according to phone activity, but never looked for it.
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Dude I love your avatar!
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Dude I love your avatar!
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Thanks, old school stuff ?
I just noticed the loud notification sound while playing music and warching youtube videos. Super annoying! Any way to fix this? How do we report issue to Huawei?
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kevev said:
I just noticed the loud notification sound while playing music and warching youtube videos. Super annoying! Any way to fix this? How do we report issue to Huawei?
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Can you turn off or silent those certain app notifications?
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Can you turn off or silent those certain app notifications?
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Unless using a specific app for that (with root?), no.
Well that sucks. I require audio notification. But it is way too loud in headphones. This is a deal breaker for me. Contemplating returning device to store...
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I found a workaround for those who don't like audio notifications from SMS/MMS messagese in headphone while listening to music or watching videos. Install Google Messenger and use it instead. It seems that the Messaging app in EMUI is the issue. It's also weird that there is no option in the app to disable the "beep beep" sound that only happens when headphones are plugged in. Don't forget to set notification sound in Messaging to "None" and disable "Vibrate" or you may have notification from both apps.
OK now this is getting rediculous!! When on a call the person on the other end of the call can hear my calendar and text notifications. It sounds like incoming call "beep beep". This needs to be fixed as it is very unprofessional when on a business call. Please fix this Huawei!!!!
kevev said:
OK now this is getting rediculous!! When on a call the person on the other end of the call can hear my calendar and text notifications. It sounds like incoming call "beep beep". This needs to be fixed as it is very unprofessional when on a business call. Please fix this Huawei!!!!
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Yes, I get that too. The only way is to silent notifications and vibration.
People are talking to me and ask "what was that?", should have a option to disable it.
Also I haven't found any sound manager in Google play store. Probably only xPosed.
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Yes, I get that too. The only way is to silent notifications and vibration.
People are talking to me and ask "what was that?", should have a option to disable it.
Also I haven't found any sound manager in Google play store. Probably only xPosed.
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Could you try set up a ifttt script or something?
I've never done it personally, but I've seen others use it for problems, so maybe?
This seems like a bug asit does not always happen.
kevev said:
OK now this is getting rediculous!! When on a call the person on the other end of the call can hear my calendar and text notifications. It sounds like incoming call "beep beep". This needs to be fixed as it is very unprofessional when on a business call. Please fix this Huawei!!!!
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I'm experiencing this too, anyone has a solution for this annoying behaviour ?
I've written on honor 8 support forum, and they suggest to send my phone to an assistant center, but i think it is a software bug.
I can't really test this right now, but it looks like there is a way to fix it in settings. Under the Do Not Disturb section you can add a rule for an event and one of the options besides calendar events just states "Phone". That ought to squelch the problem.
For me I installed Volume Control + from GPS.
There is a free version but I did not test it on my Honor 8. Still the Volume Control + has controls to separate the Ring tone and Notifications volume so the work independently of each other.
To date this is the only option which works for me without Rooting my device..
Best of all you can manage your volume level for calls to system...
Now I can use the earbuds or phone without getting deaf while on a call or listening to music when a notification comes in...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=netroken.android.persistalternate
nothing yet? it's very annoying, I see a features about it, on android 7.1 but we haven't yet
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I can't really test this right now, but it looks like there is a way to fix it in settings. Under the Do Not Disturb section you can add a rule for an event and one of the options besides calendar events just states "Phone". That ought to squelch the problem.
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there is the event "call" but doesn't work like you intended
Would be awesome have a solution about it
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there is the event "call" but doesn't work like you intended
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Huh, mine definitely says Phone and it worked when I tried. I only tested on an outgoing call with my Bluetooth headphones, though. Hope you can find a way that works for you.
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Huh, mine definitely says Phone and it worked when I tried. I only tested on an outgoing call with my Bluetooth headphones, though. Hope you can find a way that works for you.
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My phone on this setting have only "phone"
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My phone on this setting have only "phone"
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Same here
I just hate it whenever I may need to reply via voice input that it continues to pick up sounds until it's silent. That means when I finish speaking, background noise will prevent it from sending the reply in time (if at all in correct format).
I know I can tap the bottom "squiggly lines or waves" to end further input for S Voice (or whatever voice control for the watch is called), but there doesn't seem to be any such option for text replies. Please help.
Using latest version of Android, Samsung Messages, and Tizen on a S7 Edge and Gear S2 Classic.
I just got an update that is supposed to improve the S-fee feature
Nope, didn't change anything. Unless there's a voice command to make it stop listening...
I put my finger on the micro hole to stop sound...... not amazing but ....
dersie said:
I put my finger on the micro hole to stop sound...... not amazing but ....
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Haha, that'll have to do. Seems to work, but how effective is it in busy transit?