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Siri on the G2x! (...or the closest we're gonna get)

I was playing around the other day with a buddy's iPhone 4S and found Siri phenomenal. And so I have developed a strong desire to have a similar application on Android. After a quick search on the Market, I came across a ****-ton of siri-clones. They all have their pros and cons, but "iris" seems to be my favorite.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dexetra.iris&hl=en
I think you guys should check it out, while it is nowhere near as sophisticated as the real thing, it's pretty fun to play around with.
Also, if anyone finds a better alternative, please share!

Evi's fun too.
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Wow, just checked it out right now... it's pretty boss.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueknowledge.android.evi

Been using Iris for a minute, it's cool.
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iArtisan said:
Wow, just checked it out right now... it's pretty boss.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueknowledge.android.evi
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Yeah, Iris and Evi are my top two.
Check out Mira too, if you haven't.

Skyvi, voice Actions, Jeannie...
and change the robotic voice with IVONA text to speech.
use the Kendra US voice!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...9uYS50dHMudm9pY2ViZXRhLmVuZy51c2Eua2VuZHJhIl0.

thanks for this, checking it out now, sounds awesome!

korny647 said:
Skyvi, voice Actions, Jeannie...
and change the robotic voice with IVONA text to speech.
use the Kendra US voice!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...9uYS50dHMudm9pY2ViZXRhLmVuZy51c2Eua2VuZHJhIl0.
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I personally use Amy, hahaha.

siri is the dumbest **** ever... i cant tell you how many people upgraded their ip4 to an ip4s and were all like, omg siri is going to be so awesome... they dicked around with it for 2 weeks and have never used it again... "lets ask siri" is a running joke for anyone who is too lazy to actually use their phone

JHaste said:
siri is the dumbest **** ever... i cant tell you how many people upgraded their ip4 to an ip4s and were all like, omg siri is going to be so awesome... they dicked around with it for 2 weeks and have never used it again... "lets ask siri" is a running joke for anyone who is too lazy to actually use their phone
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C'mon man. don't pull generalizations out of your ass. I can see myself whipping siri out to set an alarm, reminder, or to check the weather any day.
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iArtisan said:
C'mon man. don't pull generalizations out of your ass. I can see myself whipping siri out to set an alarm, reminder, or to check the weather any day.
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Only reason I would do it is cause of my hands being filthy from food or working on cars, other wise doubt I'd use it much... most of my friends still haven't used it on their iPhone lol... have you tried android built in voice search functions not too bad
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mt3g said:
Only reason I would do it is cause of my hands being filthy from food or working on cars, other wise doubt I'd use it much... most of my friends still haven't used it on their iPhone lol... have you tried android built in voice search functions not too bad
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QFT! I've had many moments where my hands were either greasy, dirty, or had touchscreen-incompatible gloves on. Would come in handy.

I find Andy to be better than Iris
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[Q] OPINION - What's the lightest and most powerful ROM?

I'm currently on qkster's stock rooted rom (which is awesome, by the way), but I'd like to try something a littler more fun.
Here's my concern - I'd like it to be relatively light RAM-wise. I get a ton of slowdown (even when using Advanced Task Killer) and am curious if any of the current roms have a lighter memory footprint.
I also need bluetooth and GPS.
So, anyone who's flashed 'em all (or even a few) have a recommendation?
Thanks in advance!!!!

delfinparis said:
I'm currently on qkster's stock rooted rom (which is awesome, by the way), but I'd like to try something a littler more fun.
Here's my concern - I'd like it to be relatively light RAM-wise. I get a ton of slowdown (even when using Advanced Task Killer) and am curious if any of the current roms have a lighter memory footprint.
I also need bluetooth and GPS.
So, anyone who's flashed 'em all (or even a few) have a recommendation?
Thanks in advance!!!!
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I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, but the only light roms are Vagabond, AEON, and [Dev]a station. All of which are excellent choices. I believe AEON might be the lightest due to Bigfau's choice of apps and such.
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delfinparis said:
I'm currently on qkster's stock rooted rom (which is awesome, by the way), but I'd like to try something a littler more fun.
Here's my concern - I'd like it to be relatively light RAM-wise. I get a ton of slowdown (even when using Advanced Task Killer) and am curious if any of the current roms have a lighter memory footprint. I also need bluetooth and GPS.
So, anyone who's flashed 'em all (or even a few) have a recommendation?
Thanks in advance!!!!
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qkster rom is great...you get a ton of slowdown? Must have a ton apps running? Powerful depends on the users hands...sure if we both have the same Heavy Duty F350 Ford Truck, but all you do is drive around town and I use mine on the Ranch hauling, pulling, working the fields...your definition of power is different than mine...btw I'm Ford Fan...
MaliciousIntent69 said:
I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, but the only light roms are Vagabond, AEON, and [Dev]a station. All of which are excellent choices. I believe AEON might be the lightest due to Bigfau's choice of apps and such. Sent from my SGH-I997 using XDA
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Yes you are correct IMHO...also yes users have their own apps and like me...I load my ROM's down with app's galore...kills battery life, but carry a spare and have chargers everywhere, hell I'd leave the wife behind before my chargers...LOL

bigjoe2675 said:
Yes you are correct IMHO...also yes users have their own apps and like me...I load my ROM's down with app's galore...kills battery life, but carry a spare and have chargers everywhere, hell I'd leave the wife behind before my chargers...LOL
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Picture please. Have extra chargers that I might want to trade...

Truckerglenn said:
Picture please. Have extra chargers that I might want to trade...
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Sorry for the confusion... I use all my chargers...office, truck, home...
OR do you mean the wife for trade......LMAO...

bigjoe2675 said:
Sorry for the confusion... I use all my chargers...office, truck, home...
OR do you mean the wife for trade......LMAO...
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Hahahaha. I'll trade you my whole snickers for your wife
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MaliciousIntent69 said:
Hahahaha. I'll trade you my whole snickers for your wife
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Let me think...unopen...?
Hummmm...btw her bills come with her!!!!!

bigjoe2675 said:
Let me think...unopen...?
Hummmm...btw her bills come with her!!!!!
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You know Joe u better hope she never reads that.
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bigjoe2675 said:
Let me think...unopen...?
Hummmm...btw her bills come with her!!!!!
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XD too late I ateded it
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oldbbman said:
You know Joe u better hope she never reads that.
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Actually i do read the posts...funny ones to her...she just lol...she sees why i closed my Facebook Cuz I'm on here way more...:thumbup:

bigjoe2675 said:
Actually i do read the posts...funny ones to her...she just lol...she sees why i closed my Facebook Cuz I'm on here way more...:thumbup:
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Facebook is overrated. The cool kids do their social networking on xda!
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oldbbman said:
You know Joe u better hope she never reads that.
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Joe's gotta wait until dinner to find out if she read or not.

I didn't know it was that kind of party....lol
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S VOICE

Can anybody tell me how or if I can get get S VOICE on epic touch? Im on the goodness rom? If not is there something like it?

Right now S Voice only works half the time anyways. It has some serious issues with server support. Check out the market for a few different "virtual assistants".
Nothing works better than Google Voice Search though.
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dpickens said:
Right now S Voice only works half the time anyways. It has some serious issues with server support. Check out the market for a few different "virtual assistants".
Nothing works better than Google Voice Search though.
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Yea I see a lot ofppl saying it doesntwk well ...I just liked the idea of saying schedule a doctor appt or something and it does it ...more than just a search option ya know
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Google Now on epic 4g touch, I believe.

S voice is beter then siri

Thebobp so google now is like svoice ...I have only seen sboice on acouplevids and it seemed cool for like telling to schedule something and it just does it?
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jpeclf said:
Thebobp so google now is like svoice ...I have only seen sboice on acouplevids and it seemed cool for like telling to schedule something and it just does it?
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Google Now is likely superior to s-voice in every way, but some features might not be implemented yet (and I haven't actually compared them, so here)

Hmmmm not sure .... I'm going to finish testing google now ..but so far s voice on goodness is running pretty flawless
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Bargain0 said:
S voice is beter then siri
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Google Voice Search > Siri > S Voice

S voice is crap suri is defently better which is upsetting.
Though i heard google voice is awsome but i myself have not tried it.
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with33 said:
S voice is crap suri is defently better which is upsetting.
Though i heard google voice is awsome but i myself have not tried it.
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I have never used siri tbh but I can say this. I only used svoice for a bit yesterday and compared to a lot of virtual assistant apps it worked pretty well! Still haven't dabbled in google now but it was OK!
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Yah suri is the only thing applr has better then samsung atm tbh i would rarely use suri if i had it but i would like to be able to shut some isheep up.
Also i have not used google voice yet i have heard its better then suri but i wanna confirm that for myself.
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S Voice completely sucks. gives almsot THE SAME results as Google Voice Search.

its really not even worth using. I would just stick to not using it, but if it really matters just get the iphone :/

vamu4u said:
its really not even worth using. I would just stick to not using it, but if it really matters just get the iphone :/
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Lol I defenitly have no interest in the iPhone ....I'm going to stick with freedom on android .... but like I said s voice does pretty well for the most part and I set many many appointments calendar invites and calls/texts with it today while driving ...so far not the BEST but not to shabby
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I didn't find S Voice as bad as everyone says. It's not great, but I owned a 4S for awhile and Siri was really mediocre, especially when needed like in the car and hands free. S Voice didn't need to do much to be comparable, and heck it actually opens apps!
Eva/AVX is the most advanced voice assistant I've tried, especially paired with Tasker, but it's not as user friendly to the beginner.

Ok...Ok

If i want s-voice anymore theres a really nice working port here at xda

jpeclf said:
Can anybody tell me how or if I can get get S VOICE on epic touch? Im on the goodness rom? If not is there something like it?
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100% working svoice is in both the epic touch themes and apps forum and in manufans rejected cracked rom
I'm in a 12 step program for Flashaholics, I relapsed...

s and siri Which one is better?

[Q] Purchased Apps

Silly question, I've bought an app and since I will be upgrading soon, is that app transferable from one android phone to another? I figured it would be since it was purchased under my gmail account. Just need some clarification. Also, I have to get my post count up so I can post in the dev forums!! :laugh:

drummerj80 said:
Silly question, I've bought an app and since I will be upgrading soon, is that app transferable from one android phone to another? I figured it would be since it was purchased under my gmail account. Just need some clarification. Also, I have to get my post count up so I can post in the dev forums!! :laugh:
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Yes. As soon as you sign in to your Google account from the other phone, it will be available to you again for no charge via playstore.
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They can also be on multiple devices at once. I have my Thunderbolt as my main phone and also an inactive Incredible that I use on wifi to test neat stuff like CM10 (Jelly Bean is awesome by the way) and i have a lot of the same apps on both of them, particularly Titanium Backup Pro. Google has made it really easy to continue using the stuff you buy...as it should be.
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drummerj80 said:
Silly question, I've bought an app and since I will be upgrading soon, is that app transferable from one android phone to another? I figured it would be since it was purchased under my gmail account. Just need some clarification. Also, I have to get my post count up so I can post in the dev forums!! :laugh:
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I always wondered that to, great question!

tm24fan8 said:
They can also be on multiple devices at once. I have my Thunderbolt as my main phone and also an inactive Incredible that I use on wifi to test neat stuff like CM10 (Jelly Bean is awesome by the way) and i have a lot of the same apps on both of them, particularly Titanium Backup Pro. Google has made it really easy to continue using the stuff you buy...as it should be.
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Which CM10 are you using on the Incredible, I'm getting one from someone at work tomorrow. So it'd be cool to not have to either flash different ones or read a lot of comments.
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Thanks for the help everyone. I'm using thundershed and AOSP keyboards are so small for my chunky fingers!

drummerj80 said:
Thanks for the help everyone. I'm using thundershed and AOSP keyboards are so small for my chunky fingers!
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Have you tried swype, its my favorite. Although I've been too lazy to set it up recently lol.
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Kiyuubi said:
Have you tried swype, its my favorite. Although I've been too lazy to set it up recently lol.
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I downloaded Swiftkey. I used the trial version about six months ago and totally loved it. I may try swype if there is a free version and see what the differences are. Thanks for your recommendation!

drummerj80 said:
I downloaded Swiftkey. I used the trial version about six months ago and totally loved it. I may try swype if there is a free version and see what the differences are. Thanks for your recommendation!
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Swype is completely free, you have to go to Swype.com to get it.
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Kiyuubi said:
Swype is completely free, you have to go to Swype.com to get it.
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I'll download it later and check it out!

Facebook native for andriod

Perhaps most of you know this all ready. And honestly with Facebook you are the product cause your not a customer. However because I along with others have family on Facebook we are in a bind. Well Facebook went native and it finally works well with android. So for the others that have resisted being a user. Maybe its time to give them one more shot?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...ing-the-slow-html5-rendering-for-native-code/
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so far im very impressed with 2.0

The experience is definitely improved with the latest version.

Yup, much better.
Also, the argument that if you're not paying something "you're the product" is.... well I'll just say "dramatic." Yes you're being advertised to, and maybe your information is being used for advertising purposes, but.... most normal people don't give a crap, and it certainly doesn't hurt you.

It would be nice to actually be able to hold down on an image ave save !!
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thebobmannh said:
Yup, much better.
Also, the argument that if you're not paying something "you're the product" is.... well I'll just say "dramatic." Yes you're being advertised to, and maybe your information is being used for advertising purposes, but.... most normal people don't give a crap, and it certainly doesn't hurt you.
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I couldn't agree with you more about it hurting anyone.
Its not dramatics' its a simple fact. And that's OK that they sell my info to make money so I can have a free social media outlet.
I Apologize if this thread seems derogatory to Facebook. They seem to had missed the mark with not taking care of its "product". A vast amount of android users became disheartened of the HTML code. I wrote emails to fb explained how it seemed they were ignoring the android user.
I digress... the point of this thread was to welcome back and perhaps persuade old users to "give them one more shot" I would have never thought I'd give fb 5stars for the app! all my cool friends are on Google + and my sheep ios family are on fb.
My cool friends are all you guys on XDA!
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gotfolk said:
It would be nice to actually be able to hold down on an image ave save !!
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Thanks for pointing that out. Just noticed. Good news though. FB also released SDK files so I'm sure we will have some tweaks soon.
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It seems good only because the previous version sucked so hard.
We have low expectations for FB, and they finally exceeded them.

iElvis said:
It seems good only because the previous version sucked so hard.
We have low expectations for FB, and they finally exceeded them.
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There's no bigger burden than potential. Lol
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It is about damn time they release a good rework of this app. About. Damn. Time.
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There are some features that is not present upadate...multi select on photos thru update status
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javascript18 said:
There are some features that is not present upadate...multi select on photos thru update status
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i can do that just fine

Lol. There was no better way to accessing FB than the application. Idk how you handled that if you didint bother with the app . I've dealt with that for years, but it is much better now! Not just better, but good in itself.
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hyun18 said:
Lol. There was no better way to accessing FB than the application. Idk how you handled that if you didint bother with the app . I've dealt with that for years, but it is much better now! Not just better, but good in itself.
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I usually just used the browser and the mobile site or the Friendcaster app. The mobile FB site looked almost the same as the old app and Friendcaster works really well on a tablet. I'll definitely check out the new update though. It has to be better than before.
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