I've tried several different TTS apps, and they either don't work at all in Google Navigation, or it's just repeating, "Make a U-turn at Goldenrod Court" at every turn. This happens on both my Amaze and A200 with ICS. I realize some apps are incompatible with ICS, but SVOX, Pico, Ivona, Google TTS... All of them do this. Is it just me?
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I am trying to build a TTS wrapper for my app as a way to get TTS request into the app, then I send them to the chosen "real" engine. I've noticed that when getting directions from Google Nav, I get ALL the directions for the whole trip at one time...one after another.
Normally it gives one instruction, then you drive a while and it will give another instruction at an important part of the trip. Instead, I get instruction 1 through the end all at the beginning!
u can use SYGIC maps in place of google maps , then have voice turn by turn support n are also offline maps , one time download .... but yea they are paid ..
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Ok, I know this has been asked before for other phones.
But all three nav apps have made lots of changes and upgrades lately and they have a unique experience on Sensation.
I have a custom rom now (thanks S-OFF) and no navi app is installed.
I used the stock Google Nav and Telenav that came with the Tmobile Sensation stock.
Google works good, voice sucks. Yea, telenav lacks googlie features but for a navigation it works pretty well. Speaks exit names, factors in traffic data before route calculation and gui is crisp.
I only used both for a couple of days. So now my delima is to pick the best one and I cant decide. On the market Sygic has really good reviews.
I wanted to hear more from Sensation user whats their best experience. Thanks!
As long as ur in ur home country (not roaming data), I'd say Google. The voice-over isn't the best, but its never failed me yet and the incorporated Google search makes it great for finding places on the fly. Just my 2 cents
Google navigation, free, simple. Case closed
Go with Google nav.
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Google Nav, which, BTW, depending on your country will use traffic information as well.
If you are not roaming it's really hard to beat. Traffic aware, google search engine, it rocks
Google Nav works well for me...
Personally I've stuck with Google Nav. It works great for me, is reasonably accurate, and best of all it is completely free other than the bandwidth needed to run it.
mobileusman said:
Ok, I know this has been asked before for other phones.
But all three nav apps have made lots of changes and upgrades lately and they have a unique experience on Sensation.
I have a custom rom now (thanks S-OFF) and no navi app is installed.
I used the stock Google Nav and Telenav that came with the Tmobile Sensation stock.
Google works good, voice sucks. Yea, telenav lacks googlie features but for a navigation it works pretty well. Speaks exit names, factors in traffic data before route calculation and gui is crisp.
I only used both for a couple of days. So now my delima is to pick the best one and I cant decide. On the market Sygic has really good reviews.
I wanted to hear more from Sensation user whats their best experience. Thanks!
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I have tried them all, even the mapquest one and navigon usa.
As for the cheapest alternative, I'd say google nav second to telenav which I liked because you can pull up stuff like local gas stations and you can sort them by distance or prices, etc....
Now I have to recommend a voice TTS called Loquendo:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.loquendo.tts.susan&feature=search_result
Let me preface that it does cost money and is not free (IIRC ~6usd), but this voice to me, seems the most natural of all the tts I have used. It's by no means perfect, but it is nice and sound more natural rather than a voice prompt on the phone when you call in for your internet service..
I installed this, and made Loquendo TTS Susan the default voice engine on the phone. That's my .02c
google nav...
it's been dead on accurate for me. easy to use, great features, and it's free.
you get all the features without having to sign up for a premium.
Telenav charges for the same thing Google maps does for free. No brainer for me.
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Google Nav all the way!
As for the voice overs - get "Classic Text To Speech Engine" from SVOX off of the market and the SVOX voice in the language of your choosing. Works really great with Google Nav and sounds awesome.
google nav all the way!
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Kupfel said:
As for the voice overs - get "Classic Text To Speech Engine" from SVOX off of the market and the SVOX voice in the language of your choosing. Works really great with Google Nav and sounds awesome.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out
Navigon is the best offline navigation for Android.
I hope TomTom will release there app soon. And hope it's not 100euro or something crazy like that. I paid 29euro for Navigon and I am really really happy with it.
Navigon for offline maps or Google Nav if you have a good data plan
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If you choose to use Telenav, be prepared to pay an extra $10 a month.
Google Nav OK, but
Aside from terrible voice, Google Nav is OK. Starts fast, integrated, etc. But ... if you lose signal - you dead. Yes, it does cache entire route, but if you make wrong turn - you dead.
I went to NC mountains and thanks god I had Sygic Aura. I use it from time to time for offline. It does not have TTS for whatever reason, so it only speaks "Turn right in xxx feet".
I also tried iGo My Way ... great maps, but terrible UI on Android.
If you are in US, try Copilot it is only $5
And if you think that you want to contribute to something social/navigation, you can try WAZE, which is connected, and social, means that not every road is already on the map, but if you find a new one, you can add yourself the road and name it (it is like having his own street name sign but in the virtual world... ).
Of course many services such as trafic, road blocked, ... because you can contribute to this as others will be...
Just an idea...
See you and good choice.
I've found Sygic to be the best alternative to Google Navigation if you want offline maps.
Nevertheless Google Maps does the job, plus it's nice and lightweight. Though you might want to replace the default TTS engine with another one like SVOX unless you like the sound of Pico...
HTC navigation full subscription UK 22.99
Uses the same setup up as Tom Tom and is perfect for offline and online its very good
I found this on a htc sensation forum and am having the EXACT same problem : "I have a problem with my Google Maps. Each time I try to use Driving Navigation function, I receive the following error: "For voice-guided navigation, you need to install text-to-speech support from the Android Market." Then, when I click on "Install," I'm taken to the Market and I receive another message saying: "There are no matches in Android Market for the search: pname:com.svox.langpack.installer." Has anyone experienced similar issue? Any advice how to solve this?
However, if I skip the installation, it seems that there is already basic speech navigation installed because I hear "in half a mile, turn left"-- the GPS voice however is not saying the street name or highway name like my mytouch did" haven't been able to find any explanation and its driving me nuts because i use the voice guided nav a lot.. i have the 5.8 version of maps as well. im going to try uninstalling the updates and see if the previous version works but PLEASE HELP ME OUT
Go to Settings, Voice input and output. Select Pico TTS, but u must have it downloaded from the Market. This is what I had to do and I was having the same exact problem. Hope this helps.
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Running latest synergy at the moment but same problem happened with beans 9 and prior. Basically eva voice assistant works for a while and then it never responds to any command, even though i can see it here me it never proccesses what I say. Only way to get it working is uninstall, delete eva folder, then reinstall. I am in contact with developer but i suspect google now may be causing it, even tho google now voice search hears me fine and responds. Is there a way to uninstall google now and go back to ICS voice search and voice recignizer?
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Running latest synergy at the moment but same problem happened with beans 9 and prior. Basically eva voice assistant works for a while and then it never responds to any command, even though i can see it here me it never proccesses what I say. Only way to get it working is uninstall, delete eva folder, then reinstall. I am in contact with developer but i suspect google now may be causing it, even tho google now voice search hears me fine and responds. Is there a way to uninstall google now and go back to ICS voice search and voice recignizer?
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Have you figured this out any further? I'm on Synergy but I think it's definitely the Google Search engine and perhaps changes with Jelly Bean. I really wanted to explore voice assistants more, but I don't think I'd be willing to give up Google Now and restored local search etc
I am currently using cm10 but did this on cleanrom and synergy. The fix i am using is to search the market for voice search app to install the pre jellybean voice search. Then in language and input I select voice recognizer, which shows google twice. I select the 2nd one. I then choose voice search to confirm the background is black, which means ics voice search is selected. Using the market voice search eva has been working fine. Peter, the author of eva, said he released an update today that should have eva work with jellybean voice search, but it didnt work for me, so i am continuing with ics voice search from market.
With my workaround if you want to use google now and eva i assume you would have to switch the voice recognizer each time you wanna use one or the other. If you use eva or wanna try it the new version is 2.34, free 30 day trial version called eva intern. The author said it should work so try it with yours and see.
Thanks, I'll give the new build a try. I see what you're saying with the workaround but I'd rather just use Google Now and S Voice without fussing with it. Nice of the developers to work with the issue.
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I recently installed a new ROM on my Atrix 4G and the corresponding gapps that were offered for download by the same creator (epinter CM10). I liked the 'old' Google Maps Voice better, it would warn me ahead of time when I wiould need to make a turn and usually read the name of the sreet and also give me the Exit # where to exit from the Highway. Now, the Voice simply says 'left' or 'right' without prior warning that I am approaching my turn.
My quesiton is, is this dependent on the gapps version I install or is this just the new 'functionality' of Google Maps?
Just installed it and loving it. Supposedly will only run on 4.2 or higher unless you wait for the official update on play store. I was waiting for this so figured I would share the knowledge.
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Just installed it and loving it. Supposedly will only run on 4.2 or higher unless you wait for the official update on play store. I was waiting for this so figured I would share the knowledge.
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...interface-refresh-functionality-enhancements/
help if i posted the link...
Thanks! Seems great, can't wait to try it out
My HTC One on AT&T has not gotten the Maps update yet. I downloaded the APK from Androidpolice and it's working, but now I read there is a 7.0.1 update where they added the Offline maps selection when viewing the map (as opposed to having to type "Ok Maps" in the first release). However, I cannot find an updated APK for Android 4.1.2 devices... the two APK's I downloaded which were 7.0.1 could not be parsed because I'm not on 4.2. Anyone know where I can find the 7.0.1 APK for Android 4.1.2?
Also, for those of you with HTC One's, can you confirm whether addresses from the Phone application will open the new Google Maps app? On my device, if I click on an address from the Phone/Contacts app, it doesn't do anything now, whereas before it would open the address in Google Maps (on the older version).
Anyone else?
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My HTC One on AT&T has not gotten the Maps update yet. I downloaded the APK from Androidpolice and it's working, but now I read there is a 7.0.1 update where they added the Offline maps selection when viewing the map (as opposed to having to type "Ok Maps" in the first release). However, I cannot find an updated APK for Android 4.1.2 devices... the two APK's I downloaded which were 7.0.1 could not be parsed because I'm not on 4.2. Anyone know where I can find the 7.0.1 APK for Android 4.1.2?
Also, for those of you with HTC One's, can you confirm whether addresses from the Phone application will open the new Google Maps app? On my device, if I click on an address from the Phone/Contacts app, it doesn't do anything now, whereas before it would open the address in Google Maps (on the older version).
Anyone else?
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Same here. Actually, when I tap an address in contacts, it opens at&t navigator, which I am not using. I disabled it and now nothing happens at all when you tap the address. I was hoping that by disabling the at&t navigator it would default back to Google maps.
Also, if you just tap in the empty search bar, it will bring up the information cards. Just scroll down to the bottom and the option to store the map offline is already there in this version.
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Same here. Actually, when I tap an address in contacts, it opens at&t navigator, which I am not using. I disabled it and now nothing happens at all when you tap the address. I was hoping that by disabling the at&t navigator it would default back to Google maps.
Also, if you just tap in the empty search bar, it will bring up the information cards. Just scroll down to the bottom and the option to store the map offline is already there in this version.
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Yeah, somehow the contacts app just lost connection to the maps app with this version, so even if you don't have another app set as default, it just does nothing when you click an address. My initially was opening Glympse because I had that installed, but even after uninstalling it, it still isn't opening Maps. Definitely a bug between the HTC contacts app and the new Maps... which means it's probably not going to fixed for some time. I'm hoping that the upcoming HTC One update to 4.2 will fix it... but who knows when AT&T will be rolling that out. I'm not interested at this time in rooting my phone and installing a custom rom to try to fix this.
Thanks for the tip about the offline maps setting, I found it.
EDIT: There is still a way to get a contact address to appear in the new maps. Just start typing the name of the contact that has an associated address and it'll show up in the search results. Not as convenient, but at least it's a workaround for now!
I like it but driving along the navigation lags behind where I actually am
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My HTC One on AT&T has not gotten the Maps update yet. I downloaded the APK from Androidpolice and it's working, but now I read there is a 7.0.1 update where they added the Offline maps selection when viewing the map (as opposed to having to type "Ok Maps" in the first release). However, I cannot find an updated APK for Android 4.1.2 devices... the two APK's I downloaded which were 7.0.1 could not be parsed because I'm not on 4.2. Anyone know where I can find the 7.0.1 APK for Android 4.1.2?
Also, for those of you with HTC One's, can you confirm whether addresses from the Phone application will open the new Google Maps app? On my device, if I click on an address from the Phone/Contacts app, it doesn't do anything now, whereas before it would open the address in Google Maps (on the older version).
Anyone else?
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I received the 7.0.1 update through the Play store this afternoon (I'm on AT&T stock 4.1.2). When I click on addresses in Contacts it gives me the option to open the address with AT&T Navigator or Waze but not Maps. Not sure what the behavior was with earlier versions of Maps because I never tried it before now.
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I received the 7.0.1 update through the Play store this afternoon (I'm on AT&T stock 4.1.2). When I click on addresses in Contacts it gives me the option to open the address with AT&T Navigator or Waze but not Maps. Not sure what the behavior was with earlier versions of Maps because I never tried it before now.
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The correct behavior would be to ask you what app to use for links, including the Maps app. But since the link to Maps is broken, it is just asking you amongst your other compatible apps. If you don't have any other compatible apps, it will do nothing when you select an address.
Note that this just happens in the Phone/Contacts app though in Sense. If you use Chrome or another Google app that has an address or map link, it will still open in the new Maps. So it might be something HTC has to fix, or it might be something just broken with the API in the new Maps app. Only time will tell, but as I mentioned, you can start typing a contact name in the new Maps app, and it will show the address, so that's a workaround for now.
I had to uninstall and reinstall old version. If I zoom out past a certain point, the map doesn't render.. I'm on ARHD 12 if that matters.
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I had to uninstall and reinstall old version. If I zoom out past a certain point, the map doesn't render.. I'm on ARHD 12 if that matters.
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It's hard to say whether it's your custom rom or not, but the maps renders fine at all zoom levels on my HTC One running 4.1.2 stock.