So after realizing that my brand new $650 phone did not have bluetooth voice dialing, I decided to do some work.... good news.
HTC did not include the VoiceDialer.apk with the Sensation. Why? No clue!
After getting it here...
http://download615.mediafire.com/m4f6kpd3g06g/mdh1m1x0dzh/VoiceDialer.apk
I was able to prompt my car stereo's Voice Dial button, but the Voice Dial still did not want to work correctly, but... just get ChoiceDialer+ from the market, and all is good.
How did you install the apk I would like to try this before I return the phone. Sorry if this is a stupid question.
Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable, and switch to Disk mode or Mass storage mode or whatever you call it.... drag it onto your phone. Use Astro or Root explorer to navigate to your phones folder, and just open the apk to install, and then restart.
Again, I dont think the voice dialer itself will give you prompts, so get a third party app like ChoiceDialer+
I can't get the voice dialer to repeat what I say for confirmation.
After I press my bluetooth, voice dialer opens up, I say my command, and then a pop-up comes up asking me to press ok or cancel.
Anybody got any luck with this?
I have been using vlingo since launch for bt dialing and works great. The app even has an in car mode and can read texts and emails. Of course you can turn that off as well.
I just use vlingo as my default app when long pressing the search button. So upon a long press, vlingo launches and listens via bluetooth and you can say your command from searching whatever to navigate to wherever to call whomever in your address book. Try it out, it's free. You can always uninstall if you do not like the functionality.
Is there an option for me to press the button on my bluetooth to trigger the app? It is illegal to use the phone while driving up here in Canada.
Make sure voicedialer.apk is installed, and then install a third party voice dialer like Vlingo or Choice Handsfree. You need that voicedialer.apk installed to trigger the prompt when you press the Bluetooth button on your headset... When you press it, it should bring up a prompt asking you which program you'd like to use.
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my voicedialer Force closed
after i installed choice dialer, i got the same menu still.
I press my bluetooth, say something, and then on my phone screen, it gives me a prompt as to what to do (in this case, who to call).
I don't want to touch my phone while driving.
The voicedialer app worked perfectly fine with my nexus one with the same bluetooth headset, no idea why it's not working on my sensation.
I think HTC needs to do something about this. I just bought the Sensation yesterday and didn't realize this issue till this morning. I am using the BlueAnt Q2. Call recognition works fine. But using the voice commands on the Q2 is a bust cause the device is no compatible. WTF.
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I think HTC needs to do something about this. I just bought the Sensation yesterday and didn't realize this issue till this morning. I am using the BlueAnt Q2. Call recognition works fine. But using the voice commands on the Q2 is a bust cause the device is no compatible. WTF.
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I have the same situation, Q2, Sensation, hopefully a rooted ROM will fix this issue.
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I have a HTC Desire and have long been frustrated at its inability to voice dial via bluetooth. Last week I was annoyed by HTC's attitude to a Gingerbread update for the Desire, so I took the plunge and rooted my phone, installing Cyanogen mod 7.
Wonderful change, it's like having a new phone! One bonus is that, just today I decided to try voice dialling in my car, and it works perfectly! Paired the phone with my Alpine car radio, pressed the phone button on the radio and up came the message 'voice dialling', I said 'call John' and a female voice replied 'calling John' and there I was speaking, totally handsfree. Miraculous I thought, why couldn't HTC manage that?
So, all credit to Cyanogen for a superb update to my phone and I'll be donating, although it's free.
Same issues here. HTC seems to have rushed this one out the door. Besides the lack of BT voice dialing, I'm seeing hangs/crashes in the phone dialer app, and rapid battery drain when playing games. I wish there was a way to turn off Sense; it really adds nothing to the Android experience and usually gets in the way.
installs fine but keeps force closing and does not work with bt and no confirmation prompts. found vlingo but it does not work with sensation.in fact,the app will lock your phone and you will have to restore phone if you can even manage to get it installed in first place. so please stop telling people to use this app. you should be ashamed of yourself.
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I have been using vlingo since launch for bt dialing and works great. The app even has an in car mode and can read texts and emails. Of course you can turn that off as well.
I just use vlingo as my default app when long pressing the search button. So upon a long press, vlingo launches and listens via bluetooth and you can say your command from searching whatever to navigate to wherever to call whomever in your address book. Try it out, it's free. You can always uninstall if you do not like the functionality.
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you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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Its too bad you don't know what you're talking about fattexan. I downloaded VLingo from Android Zoom the first day I had my Sensation and have used it everyday since with a blackberry bluetooth speaker. It has not bricked my phone, caused a force close and anything but work beautifully. And please, don't call me a liar like you've done before. I'd be happy to post pictures to get it through your fattexan head.
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you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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I've been reading through the threads and have been most interested in voice dialing. I had it on my HD2 and it was quite useful as I use a bluetooth headset as my primary means of talking on the phone. I just hate holding the phone up to my head. In any case, voice dialing IS possible without using BT. I'm sure most of you know this as all you have to do is hold the search button on the phone for a second to get a voice command prompt pop up where you can simply say "call <contact name>" or "dial <phone number>" and it will do as told. I have no modifications on my phone, it is as stock as stock can come.
With my headsets, it used to be where I held the activate button for a moment, a tone would play in my ear, and a voice would say "say a command". Keep in mind, that was on my HD2. The sensation doesn't come with BT voice dialing by default, it seems, and it does appear that there are work-arounds to it like the apk listed above. In fact, I've seen some relatively talented people figure out how to make things work, that weren't supposed to work in the first place. Also keep in mind that voice dialing and other functions are software based, and simply writing the proper code can overcome pretty much anything.
With that being said, thefattexan, I've seen you call other posters and responders liars, and in this thread alone, you've told someone that they're "full of crap". In all honesty, those comments are not appreciated, and at least one thread was closed by a moderator because of attacks like that.
Let me submit to you, that just because you've never seen or heard of something, does not mean that it doesn't exist. Simply because you could not make it work, does not mean that someone else wasn't able to. Calling someone a liar based only on your own experiences is pretty much out of line, and your behavior is somewhat disgraceful. So I am asking you nicely, to please refrain from that sort of behavior. Maybe if someone says they can do something that you are not able to, rather than call them a liar, ask them how they accomplished it and you may learn something in the bargain. Obviously, they tried something that you didn't, and voila. Otherwise, don't say anything, because carrying on like you do will only result in the moderators banning you.
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I have had the same problems with the voice dialer apk. It installs just fine but it force closes when trying to use from the bluetooth headset.
I tried vlingo and some other apps but they are too complicated and usually require some interaction with the phone.
I want it to work just like my Thunderbolt. When my phone is in my pocket I can press the bluetooth call button and be prompted to speak now. The say "call John" and then prompted, "calling john" and the phone dials the number. Very simple and easy to work without any interaction.
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you are full of crap. if you claim to be using vlingo on an htc sensation you most certainly are full of it. the app is not available for this model and if you manage to find a work around,it will brick the phone. quit lieing to these nice people.
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I have seen your past posts and I can see you do not play well with others. Man, are you a native Texan? You are the most....well how can I put this...ignorant person here. This is XDA. A place where developers and users help each other troubleshoot things here.
And your great additions to this community? Just badmouthing everyone that does not share your view. Name calling really got you where you are today /sarcasm.
I do not know what your problem is and why you resort to name calling literally everytime you post.
Back to topic and to simply replying to you. I have been the early adopters of vlingo. I even paid for the app when it was first released. I have to say I did indeed install this via market when I got the phone because a week ago the in car setting kept fc'ing on me and I uninstalled and reinstalled the version I found in the market.
The funny thing is I tried looking again on the market and I do see that it is marked incompatible with the Sensation like you said, but I did uninstall the app and reinstalled fresh from the market and not use any restores.
I am done sparring with words with you and you can keep calling me and every one else here names....I don't know maybe you were bullied as a child, not given enough attention as a child, or maybe you found out that the Easter Bunny is a myth *gasp*....
I part with this: Get that stinking cross off your back, use the wood to build a bridge and get the hell over it.....
caliber177 said:
So after realizing that my brand new $650 phone did not have bluetooth voice dialing, I decided to do some work.... good news.
HTC did not include the VoiceDialer.apk with the Sensation. Why? No clue!
After getting it here...
http://download615.mediafire.com/m4f6kpd3g06g/mdh1m1x0dzh/VoiceDialer.apk
I was able to prompt my car stereo's Voice Dial button, but the Voice Dial still did not want to work correctly, but... just get ChoiceDialer+ from the market, and all is good.
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downloaded installed both but when i press the voice dial button on my bluetooth it does nothing, only works when I open the program directly from the apps section in my device, any suggestions?
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Make sure voicedialer.apk is installed, and then install a third party voice dialer like Vlingo or Choice Handsfree.
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You are d'bomb!! Worked exactly as you stated. I now have a completely hands free dialing experience using only my bluetooth headset.
Just a tip for anyone watching... I had to restart my phone after installing the voicedialer.apk in order for it to respond correctly. THEN I installed the Hands Free Voice dialer.
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So sweet. Jawbone now has an update for the Jawbone ICON which allows it to pair as an A2DP device. This means I can route all sound to it: music, movies, navigation, FartDroid, Robo Defense, etc.
There has never hasn't been a fix for this since the 1.5 ROMs. I'm on Fresh 2.0d
This awesome earpiece can be had for around $75 if you look hard enough.
Happy he posted... I am very happy, since I already have an ICON but didn;t know this
maybe not a big issue with people on this forum but this was a huge android issue in general. pissed a lot of people off.
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And, this was important enough to post a new thread about? Sorry, but it's cluttering up our tiny forum.
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Holy ****. This just cluttered up this thread.
This was a huge deal with Android and Jawbone just solved it for me.
Good to know. Knew I got my Icon for something. Thanks for the info.
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Can the ICON connect to the phone and allow voice dial ? Thats one feature I miss. All the crazy advances and this is one feature that hasnt been fixed. Oh well. By the way the Q1 does the ad2p thing and also allows 8 presets that allow the unit to at least connect and call out which is handy. It also allows you to connect hands free with just your voice. Not too big of a deal if your driving but if your a biker it's a pretty awesome feature ;-)
I wonder how hard would it be to program an app to wait for the button press on a headset and set it to use the voice recognition on the phone that is used by google search/nav etc...
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Can the ICON connect to the phone and allow voice dial ? Thats one feature I miss. All the crazy advances and this is one feature that hasnt been fixed. Oh well. By the way the Q1 does the ad2p thing and also allows 8 presets that allow the unit to at least connect and call out which is handy. It also allows you to connect hands free with just your voice. Not too big of a deal if your driving but if your a biker it's a pretty awesome feature ;-)
I wonder how hard would it be to program an app to wait for the button press on a headset and set it to use the voice recognition on the phone that is used by google search/nav etc...
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Maybe it was a multi phone pairing issue, but I found that the Q1 didn't reconnect automatically if I walked away from the headset with the phone or vice versa. Also didn't like that the buttons were easy to press and hence a lot of pocket headset redials...
I am very stoked with the a2dp on the icon as that's the headset i had just before being convinced by someone else that the q1 was the way to go and since having gone back to the icon
Thanks for the info, I forget that the icon is updatable and haven't checked in a while...
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seeing as this is a relatively active bluetooth-related thread, i was wondering if someone could answer a q for me.
im on fresh 2.0d and whenever I tried to play anything via A2DP in my car, the audio was sped up and always skipped about every second...has anyone else experienced this? if not, could you tell me which ROM you are using so I could give it a try?
appreciate any info anyone can offer...thanks
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Can the ICON connect to the phone and allow voice dial?
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Here's a bit of info on the Jawbone ICON website: "To encourage Google to support voice dial via Bluetooth on the Android OS, vote at Google product ideas or post a reply on Motorola's DROID forum."
I have found that the Voice Search app works a little better than the Voice Dialer app on the Hero. I just place a shortcut on my home screen. If I open the app and say, "Call Dennis at Home," it will dial home right away. Not quite "hands free" dialing, but as close as I can get for now.
For those (like myself) that have been less than satisfied with the Bluetooth voice dialing in Froyo on our Captivates there may be a pretty good solution for you.
Not sure how long its been out but Vlingo includes a beta version of a feature called "Vlingo In Car" that actually supports bluetooth dialing among other things.
Tried it out the other day and...it works! And pretty good too.
I had tried "Choice Dialer" which claims that it supports bluetooth dialing but I was never successful at getting it to work...even a little.
So, if you have Froyo on your Cappy, and want to be able to bluetooth voice dial, then give Vlingo a try. It's available, for free, in the Marketplace.
I saw that earlier tonight, and was disappointed to find it requires Froyo.
I'm holding off for a beta that seems less buggy. Seems like a lot of varying issues on it.
Of course, maybe the real release is not far off.
But I'll be keeping this Vlingo option in mind. It may just motivate me to try the 2.2 again.
I downloaded it onto my Cog 2.2 B6 and it doesn't work at all. Won't recognize any input from the bluetooth headset. Even the built-in Google search dialer is better than this. My headset works fine during calls, and will even play media. And I could initiate voice calls on Windows Mobile (Voice Command) without touching the phone.
Any tips on how I can get Vlingo working?
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For those (like myself) that have been less than satisfied with the Bluetooth voice dialing in Froyo on our Captivates there may be a pretty good solution for you.
Not sure how long its been out but Vlingo includes a beta version of a feature called "Vlingo In Car" that actually supports bluetooth dialing among other things.
Tried it out the other day and...it works! And pretty good too.
I had tried "Choice Dialer" which claims that it supports bluetooth dialing but I was never successful at getting it to work...even a little.
So, if you have Froyo on your Cappy, and want to be able to bluetooth voice dial, then give Vlingo a try. It's available, for free, in the Marketplace.
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Hey Ozone...you there? Still working for you?
I just installed the Cognition 2.2B8.1 specifically for this. This is what I am finding:
It will launch the Vlingo wiht the button, IF the phone is not asleep. Well, maybe it is launching if not asleep, but I don't know, as I get no audible, and the screen does not come on.
The other problem I have, which is not related to Vlingo, is that it seems that the phone does not hear me over BT. That's likely a rom problem.
Also, I find it does not dial automatically if I have more than 1 phone numbrer for someone, which for most I do. It just brings up the contact and the phone list and I have to choose one.
Is it working like that for you?
And, what Froyo build are you using?
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Hey Ozone...you there? Still working for you?
I just installed the Cognition 2.2B8.1 specifically for this. This is what I am finding:
It will launch the Vlingo wiht the button, IF the phone is not asleep. Well, maybe it is launching if not asleep, but I don't know, as I get no audible, and the screen does not come on.
The other problem I have, which is not related to Vlingo, is that it seems that the phone does not hear me over BT. That's likely a rom problem.
Also, I find it does not dial automatically if I have more than 1 phone numbrer for someone, which for most I do. It just brings up the contact and the phone list and I have to choose one.
Is it working like that for you?
And, what Froyo build are you using?
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Remember, its still a beta product but some of your problems are most likely related to the ROM.
I tried Cog Beta 8, briefly, and went back to beta 7 after bluetooth was totally screwed up.
As far as the list of numbers is concerned, it gives you the list when it's not sure of what type of number you requested ("Work"; "Home"; "Mobile"). Or, if you request a number type that a contact has multiples of (like more than one "Mobile" like I have).
While not perfect, over all it has worked pretty well...at least better than any other Bluetooth dialing solution that I have tried. YMMV.
Here is an update:
I re-flashed my phone and now Vlingo In Car doesn't work at all.
I'm still at Cog Beta 7 but now it does not respond to me through the headset.
I'm going to try a couple things and let you know what I find.
Love the big buttons in car mode, and voice recognition is a big improvement over trying to get Google search.
One problem I have is when the phone is turned so that the top faces to the right in car mode. The basic interface shows with the correct orientation no matter which way the phone is turned, top to the right, left or up. But in car mode, when the phone is turned so the usb connection faces right, hitting any button results in the next interface being upside down. Works just fine if usb faces left or the phone is upright.
I'm on cog 2.2 beta 6. I have a blueant s4 and voice dialing is working well. It took a few tries and I'm not sure what caused it to start working, but it is. This is using the vlingo incar app. It works for calls, messaging, and searches (all I've tried so far).
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The latest update for me: out works part time. It of not near as accurate on finding contacts as Google Voice Search.
One thing that I miss compared to MS V pice Command is the capability got it to work even if not in car mode.
I've tried Vlingo multiple times on my Captivate running Perception with a BlueAnt T1, not only does the T1 keep saying it isn't supported if I have it set to Vlingo, but the application itself is as close to useless as possible. No matter which number I tell it to call my mom at, it ALWAYS dials her cell. Additionally, I tried to follow some of the commands under the What Can I Say? area and they all opened a web browser.
Unfortunately, I paid for this worthless junk.
Voice Dialing under Perception 10.x and above works fine with my Jawbone Icon and I am trying to see if I can get Voice Dialing to work with my Alpine kce-400BT unit in my truck. Otherwise I have not had any issues with it at all.
HTH,
Charlie
I am using the Bluetooth voice dialing on Paragon RC5.1 with my Pioneer FH-P800BT car stereo and it works perfectly.
So what software works perfectly for you?
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blueant + vlingo + firefly = working bluetooth dialing.
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blueant + vlingo + firefly = working bluetooth dialing.
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Does Vlingo give you consistently accurate dialing? If it does, I'm glad for you
While I can get it to dial via blue tooth, I find it doesn't do so consistently accurately, based on useing on 3 different BTooth devices, and even if just using without blue tooth.
Also, it has no validation. Must either trust it to dial right, or press from a list it pulls up.
Choice Dialer would ideal, if only it worked. It is 10 times worse than Vlingo, for me.
Nothing I've tried works anything near as good as Microsoft Voice Command did.
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Nothing I've tried works anything near as good as Microsoft Voice Command did.
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I hear that! I never had any problems with voice dialing with VC. Too bad nothing I've seen on Android comes close.
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Does Vlingo give you consistently accurate dialing? If it does, I'm glad for you
While I can get it to dial via blue tooth, I find it doesn't do so consistently accurately, based on useing on 3 different BTooth devices, and even if just using without blue tooth.
Also, it has no validation. Must either trust it to dial right, or press from a list it pulls up.
Choice Dialer would ideal, if only it worked. It is 10 times worse than Vlingo, for me.
Nothing I've tried works anything near as good as Microsoft Voice Command did.
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vlingo def superior in recognition. I don't use the feature but set it up for my dad on his new captivate.
I did 10 test dials with it with only hiccup in which is it choose a very similar sounding name rather than what i was trying to dial.
Did Vlingo work via Bluetooth? I can't get mine to recognize any devices. Called Samsung and they basically told me too bad.
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Did Vlingo work via Bluetooth? I can't get mine to recognize any devices. Called Samsung and they basically told me too bad.
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Depending on what ROM you use, you may need to use Blue Tooth Launch.
It may be that Vlingo works fairly well with direct voice on the phone, but poor on blue tooth. At least it is quite poor for me. The times it does find the right person to call, it brings up a list of all phones to choose, instead of dialing "Mobile" if that is what I ask for.
Vlingo doesnt recognize many of my contacts. like I have Marko in my phonebook...and when i say Call Marko or Call Marko mobile or Dial Marko mobile, or whatever...it doesn't find it, instead it finds marco with a C. And i don't have any Marcos in my address book. WTH. I wont even talk about other names it doesn't even recognize at all, it just launches the browser and searches for a completely different thing. FOr some names i have last names as well, and i clearly say the last name and it doesn't work. Beh. I was hoping this app will do better. at least be smart enough to recognize marko from marco, its darn too easy. beh lol.
Hey gang,
I've got a Captivate i896 with Rogers and was wondering if there was any way to enable the integrated voice control? I'm running 2.1.
Does anyone know why it was disabled?
Thanks!
Not sure what your specific interest is. Can you be more specific?
I'm not exactly sure which voice controls you're talking about. If you're talking about the voice commands that allow you to send texts and emails and the like that is only available in 2.2. It is not a feature that is disabled in 2.1, it just was never implemented.
Hey. Thanks for the replies.
I was under the impression I had the option to use the mic on my earphone to control my Android device. I'm assuming there is no way to enable it?
I am running 2.1, which would explain my I have none of the good stuff. Hopefully we get a CM 6.1 for the Captivate in the not to far future!
you can install vlingo.
the stock keyboards dont have the microphone button and i think voice control only works for google search but i could be wrong i haven't used a stock rom in a while.
I still don't know what you want to control on the device.
Voice dial phone numbers, if I remember correctcly, just cannot be done very well on 2.1 Vlingo makes an attempt, but not very good.
With Vlingo, you can read text and email messages into it, but you need to speak very clearly.
It will not, at least last they told me, open third party apps. The latest does, but I think it may require 2.2...not sure
Vlingo has a promising app for using in the Car. You can set it to automatically come up based on a specific BT you turn on. And you can have it set to be 'listening', so you don't even have to push a button. HYou just say "Hey Vlingo". and it asks what you want. Problem is it doesn't listen (BTW this does require 2.2). By that I mean it hears when I say Hey Vlingo, but after that its like the mic is shut off, and it does not hear. I don't know if that is a bug in Vlingo (it is beta), or the leaked Froyo Rom I am running.
All in all, things sound like we'll be there some day, but not now.
Google Voice Action (also requires 2.2) is more accurate for dialing (in my experience) than Vlingo. But it is opposite of Vlingo. Where Vlingo can come up with the push of a BT button, but not hear; Google won't come up wiht a BT Button, but when you push the search button to bring it up, at least it hears.
The android keyboard has the mic button and accepts my speach just fine
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Similar question: on 2.2 with the Google Voice Actions, is there any way to use them when not connected to wifi/3g? Anytime I try it says that there is no connection. I just want to call someone with it, not search. Should that require a connection also?
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Have you tried the Nuance Vsuite (Voice Commands) that's on the Fascinate? I can post the .apk and .so files if you're interested.
I've used the voice command stuff w/o being on WIFI a lot.
On the Nuance stuff, I'd be glad to test it.
BTW...there is someone in the Cognition thread working on a program that will call up the Google Voice Search via Blue Tooth. I am testing it for him, and it seems to be working for me. Not sure when he'll be making it available to general public. He wants to add some features.
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On the Nuance stuff, I'd be glad to test it.
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OK. The attached is from my stock D101 (Eclair) Fascinate /system. You can just flash the thing in with CWM if you like, or move the files yourself.
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible if something breaks
Being as I have a Captivate, and am on 2.2, not 2.1, what I think I'll do is hold off testing until I am ready to do a new flash. DG has a new Cognition 2.2 ROM out, actually based off of a Vibrant rom, which I may flash after I see how it is going for everyone else.
So when I'm to that point, I'll test this first on current ROM, and post back then how it goes.
Thanks for the files.
I would hope that voice control would work over bluetooth and without 3G or wifi. Wouldn't it be a function of the phone? I'd hate to have to pay Roger's every time I want to use it.
I'm probably going to wait till a CM 6.1 release for the Captivate before I do anything with it. Roger's will be releasing 2.2 to Captivate users some time in January 2011 (which could mean any time really). Hopefully CM comes first. By then, 2.2 will be out no doubt.
This may be a bit confounded, but it works for me. I use four apps for voice control.
For phone calls, I've found Vlingo to be the most accurate. (but not so great at opening apps). You can also say things like "call the nearest Walmart" or "call a taxi"
For opening apps, I've found Choice Dialer to be the best (but no so accurate at phone calls). It also has lots of other features I don't use.
For Google searching, maps & navigation I've found the regular voice search to be the best.
And for defining words, spelling, math, translation, and a bit of fun, I've found Edwin to be the best.
Hope this helps!
The way that google voice control works is that it records your voice command then uses the servers on the internet to interpret the voice command. This allows more powerful servers with billions of voice samples, which now includes yours, to accurately interpret the voice command and respond quickly. That's why it needs either wifi or 3g connection. I'm not sure how Vlingo does it. It was so buggy on my 2.1 that I uninstalled it.
Hey guys,
Thanks for the replies!
I flashed Cognition a while ago and it voice control (long hold on magnify glass) works beautifully! Exactly what I was looking for and works like a charm.
I tried a couple of applications like Vlingo and it doesn't work nearly as good as the native function.
I just finished installing all the stereo parts in my car only to find out that my Captivate won't work with the voice dialing of the stereo. I guess it's the phone's fault as my wife's Focus works just fine as did my old HTC Pure. She won't trade phones with me so I'm stuck trying to find a ROM that has this.
With Samsung stating it will be fixed (added) in 2.2.1; does that mean only the 2.2.1 ROMS will have this feature? I'm currently running Cognition 4.3.1 and it does not have it; but would like to only try new ROMS that have it. What ROMS do have the feature?
Thank you for your input.
Firefly supports voice dialing. You have to start the Voice Dialling app and then say the command.
What I'm looking for is what the Droid Incredible has. I paired it to my stereo and when I hit the call button on the stereo; it launched what appeared to be a bluetooth voice dialer application that allowed me to speak into the stereo.
I just tried firefly and it did have that app, but it crashed as soon as I tried it. It also crashed the music app, failed to mount the storage drives, crashed when trying to put it in debugging mode and pretty much was unstable since it booted. I then tried to use one click odin and it went to a blue screen half way through the process. It'll be a fun night.
Probably not what you want to hear, but my BT in the car works great on my 'stock' set up. I think it has more to do with the kernel/ modem configuration than the ROM though.
dragon has this. many people are pairing it with choice dialer.
Dani897 said:
dragon has this. many people are pairing it with choice dialer.
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I can't get Choice Dialer to work well at all. ONe example: "CAll Tom Jones", it says "CAll Tom Jones?", I say "Yes", it says "Try again". Argh...
ANd most of th time it just doesn't understand me at all.
I believe this is the apk you need. I know cog doesn't come with it. This is an old one so I don't know if there is a newer version available but when you pair your bluetooth and hit the voice command on your stereo or bluetooth set, make this the default app when the prompt shows up. It won't give you a voice prompt but if you wait 2 secs and then speak it should dial for you. Only problem is that your phone has to be awake but at least you can use voice commands from your bluetooth set. Just leave your phone plugged in and awake while your in the car. This is the only option I have found.
That worked.
Thank you for the apk. That works.
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I can't get Choice Dialer to work well at all. ONe example: "CAll Tom Jones", it says "CAll Tom Jones?", I say "Yes", it says "Try again". Argh...
ANd most of th time it just doesn't understand me at all.
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It's not unusual to be called by anyone
It's not unusual to have a text from anyone
but when I try to use voice dial for anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
Roflmfao!
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It's not unusual to be called by anyone
It's not unusual to have a text from anyone
but when I try to use voice dial for anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
Roflmfao!
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Boy, ain't that the truth. It really chaps me that the one thing that should be solid on a Cell now-a-days is voice dial. Can't believe that OLD OLD technology from Microsoft on Winmo SHINES so much better than Android. Maybe that's the only thing that does, but in my opinion, one of the most important things for a cell phone...at least if you anticipate wanting to use it while driving.
That was a tom jones joke ...
I'm glad the Voice Dialer apk worked. I couldn't get it to work on any Captivate ROMs. Most reoriented i9000 ROMs have a working version, but I find all of the i9000 ROMs to be severely lacking in performance compared to KB1 ROMs.
My preferred solution in either case is to use Bluetooth Launch and Voice Search. Bluetooth Launch can be found here. Run it from the app drawer, it brings up a full list of installed apps and available activities. Choose Voice Search, and then the "VoiceRecognition" activity (must have Google's Voice Search installed first of course). Then, hit your call button, and set Bluetooth Launch as the default activity when it asks. From then on, your call button will launch Voice Actions, which support not only "call <contact>" but also a ton of other commands, including controlling music, text msgs, etc. I love sending texts without touching my phone, and it works flawlessly for me so far.
hi,
ok, so i've been a long time blackberry user and just switched to android.
i'm so happy with my galaxy nexus except this one thing.
with my blackberry, i never had to take my phone out of my pocket.
i could call someone or receive calls with just a button on my earphone (standard earphone that came with my blackberry).
all i had to do was just long press the button on the earphone and say "call mike" then it would call him.
but my galaxy nexus won't let me do this.
so i installed some apps like 'voice control full'... but to call someone, i still have to take my phone out, launch the app, press the 'say now' button on the screen before i can say something.
is there anything i can do about this???
all i want is the ability to call someone with just a button my standard earphone so i won't have to take my phone out of the pocket.
hands free calling
Try voice search but no guarrantees.
On my htc sensation headphones long pressing the mic button would redial last person i called but other then that idk.. but doesn't take that much effort to call someone manually..
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
almost hands free
Also, try "Speaktoit Assistant" from the Play Store. Good luck!
i also tried speaktoit, but you still have to take the phone out, launch the app, press the 'say now' button on the screen.
sigh...
am i asking for too much? i just want to do what my crappy blackberry was able to do every day..
Hands free
I have a sensation too, but I used to have a Blackberry storm. There's many abilities that the Blackberry had and I would miss them too, as when I was able to play stations from tunein radio, on 2G network.
Interesting. My Blue Ant headset lets you use its commands to call anyone in your phonebook or you can hit the button and then say 'phone commands' and it will use whatever commands are built into your phone.
Your headset apparently isn't compatible with this because Google Voice Commands that comes stock on Android phones allows both calling and texting directly from its menus and should come up by default when you use the headset to access the phone.
Bluetooth. Simple.
Does this only work with Bluetooth?
Or can it be achieved without it?
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There's an app called car home that came with my previous custom rom, but I doubt if it is available on play store...
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Skyvi
I use Skyvi. It works fine for calls. You 'll need a bt headset for pushbutton.