[Q] Google Voice Actions - T-Mobile LG G2x

Is anyone having problems with getting Google Voice Actions to work? The language on my G2X is set to English US, and I'm in the US so I know that's not the problem. Nothing works, and the app is updated. If I try to say "Navigate to ...." it does a Google search for the thing I said to navigate to.
I'd love any suggestions

Can you clarify a bit. You said nothing works but it did search when you use navigation.
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The only thing it does is search by voice. It doesn't navigate, send text to, set alarm, or anything else. I can say navigate to .... and all it will do is google search for the last thing it heard. If I say send text to Joe, it'll google search for joe.
It works flawlessly on my nexus S, so I don't know what the problem could be.

Anybody have a solution, as I've tried everything.
I unrooted and restored to out-of-the-box state and it didn't help.
However, when I changed the language to English (UK) I was able to get the "Navigate to..." option working, but the other voice actions only work in the US as of right now, so it's kind of pointless. The person that this phone belongs to, really only wanted the navigation voice action so in theory the problem is solved, but she said she would also like the other voice actions as well and I'm completely baffled as to why all the other android phones in the house can accomplish the voice actions and the g2x cannot.
Are any other g2x owners unable to perform any of the voice actions, or am I the only one?

Mine is working just fine with voice commands. I tried a bunch of different ones to be sure and they all work appropriately.
I don't have any ideas for you but just wanted to chime in that its not a universal issue.
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Ok I'd like people to check something for me.
On my Nexus S when I click Settings>Voice Input and Output> "Voice Recognizer settings", recognizer is spelled like you would see in the US, "recognizer."
However, on the G2X, it's spelled "recogniser" like you would see in a British spelling. How is recognizer spelled on your guys' G2X, is it "recognizer" or "recogniser"

Mine is spelled the American way with a "z". Myself I am rather perturbed at the voice dialing. My contact list has everyone with first and last name and I would like to be able to use nicknames instead of the long full name. Especially in the case of my father and brother who are Joe XXXX Jr. and Joe XXXX III. Don't know why I can't use nicknames instead and say Brother, or my friend Patty, instead of Patty XXXX.

SphericalPuma said:
Ok I'd like people to check something for me.
On my Nexus S when I click Settings>Voice Input and Output> "Voice Recognizer settings", recognizer is spelled like you would see in the US, "recognizer."
However, on the G2X, it's spelled "recogniser" like you would see in a British spelling. How is recognizer spelled on your guys' G2X, is it "recognizer" or "recogniser"
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Mine is spelled "Recogniser". I'm on Eagle's Blood 1.0.4 Froyo, for what it's worth.

I use mine all the time. I always use "Call dominoes (zip)" or "call jenna mobile".
I've used "text jenna i'm horny" but I'd rather just type it. It does work well in the car when I'm driving. I use call just to save me from looking it up, remembering the number, and dialing it.
I do use "map address" though. That works well too.
Overall it does work well for me. I'm on CM7 and I just downloaded it from the market (no GAPPS). "Reconizer" is spelled with a "Z" on mine too.

player911 said:
I use mine all the time. I always use "Call dominoes (zip)" or "call jenna mobile".
I've used "text jenna i'm horny" but I'd rather just type it. It does work well in the car when I'm driving. I use call just to save me from looking it up, remembering the number, and dialing it.
I do use "map address" though. That works well too.
Overall it does work well for me. I'm on CM7 and I just downloaded it from the market (no GAPPS). "Reconizer" is spelled with a "Z" on mine too.
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Well I'm officially out of ideas then. I'm going to wait for the official G2X Gingerbread update this summer and if that doesn't fix the problem, then I'll be putting either CM7 or one of the other Roms on it.

SphericalPuma said:
Ok I'd like people to check something for me.
On my Nexus S when I click Settings>Voice Input and Output> "Voice Recognizer settings", recognizer is spelled like you would see in the US, "recognizer."
However, on the G2X, it's spelled "recogniser" like you would see in a British spelling. How is recognizer spelled on your guys' G2X, is it "recognizer" or "recogniser"
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Just checked mine, its spelt recogniser. I'm using stock on my g2x. Apparently not much thought went into converting the overseas version to the US version, also apparent little QA was actually done on this phone to miss something that obvious.
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Voice to txt options on CDMA Hero running Fresh 1.1

...are there any worth mentioning?
Not sure about your question, but I use speech to text in handcent to text while driving. Works just fine if you enunciate each word.
tstack77 said:
Not sure about your question, but I use speech to text in handcent to text while driving. Works just fine if you enunciate each word.
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ok, apparently I need to learn how to speak cause handcent mislabels every word I say.
It took me a minute too but I've gotten it down to a science. Try speaking like each word is it's own sentence, and keep it fairly monotone.
"Pick. Up. Chinese. Food. On. Your. Way. Home."
tstack77 said:
It took me a minute too but I've gotten it down to a science. Try speaking like each word is it's own sentence, and keep it fairly monotone.
"Pick. Up. Chinese. Food. On. Your. Way. Home."
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I agree. Handscent works pretty damn good with the speech-to-text if you speak to it like it's stupid.
thanks for the tips guys...I tried speaking like it's retarded and it's flawless
I'd love something that worked as a virtual keyboard and could work in any app....
angst911 said:
I'd love something that worked as a virtual keyboard and could work in any app....
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app called Voice Text does that for sure..

[REQ] Vlingo InCar apk

Wasnt sure exactly where to post this. The new app from Vlingo, "Vlingo InCar" is in beta, and only available through the market for sprint customers during the beta period.
Could one of you kind evo users post up the apk for the rest of the android community? Thanks!
Best of luck with it! I love it so far!
http://db.tt/LXLQyfw
enjoy!
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What does this do that you cannot do with the new google voice program?
vipergtsr6 said:
What does this do that you cannot do with the new google voice program?
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When you put it in "InCar" mode you can say "Hey Vlingo" to wake it up and use voice commands.
FYI, this works on the VZW with the Incredible with no problem..
vipergtsr6 said:
What does this do that you cannot do with the new google voice program?
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Also, it works! The new Google program is about 1/10 in getting what I say right.
Vlingo is (so far) about 5/5. I like that if it doesn't find what you're saying locally, it does a (very fast) internet search.
any word on making it work for other android devices? ie the g-1
jedwardmiller said:
Best of luck with it! I love it so far!
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Works great on the dinc. I appreciate the share!
thank you so much for sharing this app with the community. I have been fooling around with it for half an hour or so and it does some pretty awesome things. LOVE the in-car feature, completely hands-free and works perfectly, even reads and writes text messages for me. "hey vlingo"
Edit: Forgot to add, very accurate, even with names
Wow, the incar mode is really REALLY good. Anybody know how to have it differentiate between a contacts home and cell when sending a text message?
Say call blah blah mobile. That should work.
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Google's voice search sucked at recognizing what I was saying for the first week or so, but then it got a lot better. I'm wondering if it learns your voice or something. Vlingo, on the other hand, worked well on day one. However, while it does a good job of recognizing what I am saying, it doesn't always give me the results I wanted. For instance, movie times never come up even though that's one of the examples the app shows, and it displays my exact phrase correctly (movie times near #####). It just says "No answer found". And I've also had trouble getting it to dial the right phone number for a contact. It's like it ignores when I say "mobile."
I'm having the same problem. It ignores when I say "mobile" after the contacts name. My g/f is getting irritated with the text to landline messages that repeat "test" lol
Is it necessary to install the standard Vlingo app before installing the incar pack?
I´ve been trying to download the installer but i still cant find it, it´s not in the market either.
It would be much if I ask to share the installer?
0ptimus82 said:
Is it necessary to install the standard Vlingo app before installing the incar pack?
I´ve been trying to download the installer but i still cant find it, it´s not in the market either.
It would be much if I ask to share the installer?
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? It's in the second post of this thread.
anyway to successfully have this running in the background with the in-car? Currently it seems that the program has to be on main screen for me to say "Hey Vlingo" and it wakes...
Plus..too bad I cant say Jarvis to have it wake up
Instead of 'mobile' try saying 'cell'.
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pwnst*r said:
Wow, the incar mode is really REALLY good. Anybody know how to have it differentiate between a contacts home and cell when sending a text message?
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Right now the best way is to make two contacts for the person and label one cell and one home after the name. Best workaround at the moment.
JimsPoBox said:
Right now the best way is to make two contacts for the person and label one cell and one home after the name. Best workaround at the moment.
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Yeah, I went ahead and did that the other day, but thanks! Hopefully that will get sorted.
It would be nice if you could ask it to use your GV # by default as well.
i wonder if there is any way to train a contact that it gets wrong every time. Wifes name is tricky and unless i use her last name first it misses it every time.

Predictive dialing for android

Guys, is there a program that gives me predictive dialing for the android? I have Froyo.
I found Dial one or something like that and it works fine, BUT, there is a formatting problem and it puts the persons name on TOP of the date last called and all that and it makes it harder to read, AND looks ****ty!
I'm also using a program that makes my fonts bigger which might be interfering but normally, it doesn't.
THanks
George
guiri_too said:
Guys, is there a program that gives me predictive dialing for the android? I have Froyo.
I found Dial one or something like that and it works fine, BUT, there is a formatting problem and it puts the persons name on TOP of the date last called and all that and it makes it harder to read, AND looks ****ty!
I'm also using a program that makes my fonts bigger which might be interfering but normally, it doesn't.
THanks
George
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Tried TakePhone yet? 30 day trial if you get it from his website, shsh.com, then buy it from him direct or from the market.
Thanks
I don't see anything about predictive dialing but I can give it a try.
If I get it from his site, how do I install it on the nexus?
Thanks
George
You could also try TouchPal dialer free from the Market. It's got predictive dialing and is a bit more speedy than DialerOne.
I remember I loved this on my T-Mobile Wing. I could type in 323 and dad would come up.
Nowadays, I just use the search button in the dialer to find the contact in question. Just type their name out haha.
It's bull****! You'd think that on a 700 dollar phone, this would be standard
THanks by the way, I'll try the latest suggestion.
George
guiri_too said:
Thanks
I don't see anything about predictive dialing but I can give it a try.
If I get it from his site, how do I install it on the nexus?
Thanks
George
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Go there on the phone? Chrome to phone? ADB push? Copy to sd card?
Ok, that was greek to me, Download to the SD card?
I assume Chrome is what the browser is but what's that AD something?
THanks (yeah, yeah, I"m a dumbass)
guiri_too said:
Ok, that was greek to me, Download to the SD card?
I assume Chrome is what the browser is but what's that AD something?
THanks (yeah, yeah, I"m a dumbass)
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Whew, that saved me from being a jerk! Just kidding....
Just go to his website on your phone and hit the download button. Chrome to Phone is a browser extension available in Chrome, Firefox, maybe other browsers, which lets you send a URL directly to the phone to download.
Hey, unlike all the other idiots, at least I'm aware of it. Makes me smarter then doesn't it?
I will give it a shot and I will most certainly screw it up so I'll be back soon
my droid incredible does this out of the box...
Well, I think that's common sense and the sad thing is, some HTC phones have it and some don't. Makes no damn sense at all.
I had it on an HTC three years ago
What about the option of having LARGE fonts? Large enough for ol' farts like me?
NOthing. Gotta pimp my $hit to get apps on there to do it. Damn embarrassment to techs all over the world. They make a phone that can make coffee but they can't even figure out the simplest of things like hey, use the WHOLE screen for stuff, hey, have an option for large fonts, large icons, less space between icons and options for a large clock..
I think they're all idiots and that's my final answer!
try youlu address book...
the best in my opinion
Is this available in the market? I tried androlib but it's not there
Thanks
guiri_too said:
Is this available in the market? I tried androlib but it's not there
Thanks
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Dialer One is.
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DialerOne is laggy.
I wasn't able to fine TouchPad dialer on the market neither on AppBrain. Could someone help with link.
Meanwhile I'll try youlu address book.
balex, let me know where you find youlu and what you think about it.
Thanks
George
lagu805 said:
try youlu address book...
the best in my opinion
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Yep, very nice and very peppy little app. However, I managed to change the layout in the favorites to thumbnails and I don't know how to get it back to LIST mode.
Any advice?
Thanks
George
balex3000 said:
DialerOne is laggy.
I wasn't able to fine TouchPad dialer on the market neither on AppBrain. Could someone help with link.
Meanwhile I'll try youlu address book.
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That's because you've spelled it wrong. It's TOUCHPAL, not touchpad. It's free in the market, works great in English and Chinese, and is a lot speedier than DialerOne, but has all the same features.
guiri_too said:
balex, let me know where you find youlu and what you think about it.
Thanks
George
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Youlu is faster than DialerOne but there are 3 things I'm missing here:
1. There is no * on the dial pad. I didn't find an option to call to phone number *1234.
2. With DialerOne I have shortcut to the call log screen and it appears with dial pad. I can start searching (T9 style) right away. In Youlu there are different tabs/screens for dial pad, calls log, contacts and favorites. If I use shortcut to calls log I have to do extra click for dial pad
3. In DialerOne there are few places you can press on a single line on calls log screen: 1. direct call, 2. calls log of specific contact, 3. mini-menu to dial, sms, face, mail to the contact or open contact details. It's less options in Youlu: direct call to the number or calls log of the specific contact (like if you got 3 calls from him and return one back)
I'm still wondering what best for me.

Errors with Froyo

I have installed the leaked Froyo release, and reinstalled all apps and settings using instuctions found on this forum. That all went very smoothly, so, thanks to the people here. I have to report one error in the system that has been reported in other forums many times. The new froyo voice actions from voice search do not work properly or at all in some cases. The new voice search understands my voice perfectly, but then fails to perform the voice activated commands ("voice actions") as google intended. If i say "Call John Smith", voice search performs a google search for the phrase "call john smith", rather than calling John Smith (John Smith would be a google contact). I spent quite some time looking for a solution but found none that work. Disabling contact sync, deleting the contact cache and resyncing from gmail does not work. I doublt I will be the only one who filnds this problem. If anyone is aware of a fix for this, please post a link.
Thanks
mikechartre said:
I have installed the leaked Froyo release, and reinstalled all apps and settings using instuctions found on this forum. That all went very smoothly, so, thanks to the people here. I have to report one error in the system that has been reported in other forums many times. The new froyo voice actions from voice search do not work properly or at all in some cases. The new voice search understands my voice perfectly, but then fails to perform the voice activated commands ("voice actions") as google intended. If i say "Call John Smith", voice search performs a google search for the phrase "call john smith", rather than calling John Smith (John Smith would be a google contact). I spent quite some time looking for a solution but found none that work. Disabling contact sync, deleting the contact cache and resyncing from gmail does not work. I doublt I will be the only one who filnds this problem. If anyone is aware of a fix for this, please post a link.
Thanks
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It's not a bug or a problem as a lot of people think of it. Voice search and Voice commands have been split in the Mesmerize build. This is not like a regular Google Vanilla build. Both work, and work very well, just not as most people are used to. I've posted a couple of replies to this same type of "problem" before, but you have explained yourself a lot better than most people. I assume that you had experience with other Android phones with both of these features built in to one application. Personally, this is my first and only Android so it's all that I am used to.
I hope this helps explain things and help you with the issue. It's helped other people in the past.
phidelt82 said:
It's not a bug or a problem as a lot of people think of it. Voice search and Voice commands have been split in the Mesmerize build. This is not like a regular Google Vanilla build. Both work, and work very well, just not as most people are used to. I've posted a couple of replies to this same type of "problem" before, but you have explained yourself a lot better than most people. I assume that you had experience with other Android phones with both of these features built in to one application. Personally, this is my first and only Android so it's all that I am used to.
I hope this helps explain things and help you with the issue. It's helped other people in the past.
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Does that mean there's a separate application for Voice Actions?
phedelt82,
I am alittle confused as to what you are saying, Are you referring to the Nuance voice commands as separate app. I can get that to work, but it is sluggish and less accurate than the google search version. There is a google video demonstrating voice actions from inside of voice search. I think this is supposed to be part of the stock rom, no need to download a separate app. That said there is an upgrade on the market for google search that becomes available once on 2.2. With or without this, the prolem still exists.
My understanding is that in Froyo, the google search app shound first interperate the words that are being spoken. Then based on what phrase it desides has been said either performs a google search on the phrase, or if the phrase contained the right opening keyword, such as "call" or "email" or "map" or "directions", it issues a 'voice action' command to the associated app. Eclair did this with some apps such as calling reasonably well right from the stock google voice search. In Froyo, the abilty of voice search to understand what is being said I would say is improved. However, it drops the ball when it comes to passing the intended command to the app. Oddly, It will call any resturant or bussiness not in my contacts with total reliability. Something is wrong possibly when the voice search recognises the keyword "call", executes the voice action assoicated with "call" (the dailer) and then finally gets confused when it somehow fails to find the contact requested, even though it is in the google contacts.
I was wondering if I am the only one with the problem of the market, or appbrain or any other wifi app FCing randomly? Also if enabling debugging and system lagfix in CWM recovery could b my problem? Thnx in advance and fo all the excellent work the devs have done on these ROMs and Kernels.
Sent from my Mesmerize using XDA,s awesome app
I had a modem crash error xD. Factory reset fixed it. Not a big deal at all. >.>
I realize the this is a Meserize forum but I am having the exact same problem with my Verizon Fascinate that I've update the to a leaked Froyo. Other voice commands seem to work fine and "Call <business name>" works great! But if I try "Call John Smith work1" then it does a google web search for that instead of dialing that phone book entry! It's very frustrating...
I'd be willing to bet that it's the same problem and will have the same solution (since the phones are so related). So I hoope someone has fix for this.
londroid said:
I realize the this is a Meserize forum but I am having the exact same problem with my Verizon Fascinate that I've update the to a leaked Froyo. Other voice commands seem to work fine and "Call <business name>" works great! But if I try "Call John Smith work1" then it does a google web search for that instead of dialing that phone book entry! It's very frustrating...
I'd be willing to bet that it's the same problem and will have the same solution (since the phones are so related). So I hoope someone has fix for this.
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This appears to be a common issue and so far I haven't found anyone with an answer other than to use a different app.
I have still been unable to figure this out. I have found that the people I know with HTC's and froyo or DroidX and some others do not have this problem. Did Samsung somehow create this bug putting it into touchwiz, or is this possible a defect due to the non official release?
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It's not a bug or a problem as a lot of people think of it. Voice search and Voice commands have been split in the Mesmerize build. This is not like a regular Google Vanilla build. Both work, and work very well, just not as most people are used to. I've posted a couple of replies to this same type of "problem" before, but you have explained yourself a lot better than most people. I assume that you had experience with other Android phones with both of these features built in to one application. Personally, this is my first and only Android so it's all that I am used to.
I hope this helps explain things and help you with the issue. It's helped other people in the past.
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phidelt82, can you explain what you mean by the Voice Search and Voice Actions being split? If they are split, does that mean they can be accessed separately?

What can S Voice do?

I just installed a ROM with S Voice and Im totally digging it. I did a google search and I see that there is some information, but very limited. Anyone know what all S Voice can do?
Decepticaons said:
I just installed a ROM with S Voice and Im totally digging it. I did a google search and I see that there is some information, but very limited. Anyone know what all S Voice can do?
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It's basically Samsung's answer to Apple's Siri. Though I don't think it is as advanced, but not really sure. I only messed around with it briefly on SkyICS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Voice
Little comparison between the 2 - http://phandroid.com/2012/06/13/face-off-samsung-galaxy-s3s-s-voice-vs-iphone-4ss-siri-video/
Played around with it for a few minutes.
-Made a call
-Sent a text
-Set an alarm
All 3 without a single issue, voice recognition was great and I was mumbling quietly for the majority of commands including the actual text.
You can also use "Navigate to x" and "What is the weather".
If anyone find a comprehensive list of commands could you please post a link?
Thank you
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You can also use "Navigate to x" and "What is the weather".
If anyone find a comprehensive list of commands could you please post a link?
Thank you
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i have used command's like "How is weather today?" "Where can I get pizza or gas?" "How does my day look?" and I got right answers.
The only issue I had was with Voice command integration. I have a Blueant Q2 and "Phone Command" should automatically invoke S-Voice. 8 out of 10 times it did not work and that's probably because it has not been properly integrated in S2. I am sure it works well in S3.

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