Depressed voice in SVoice, Evi, Etc. - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have stock ICS 4.0.4 on my Nexus S (i9020a) and whenever I use a voice command app likes those listed in the title, the voice sounds very depressed and just doesn't sound right. Is there anyway to fix this?

vxZach said:
I have stock ICS 4.0.4 on my Nexus S (i9020a) and whenever I use a voice command app likes those listed in the title, the voice sounds very depressed and just doesn't sound right. Is there anyway to fix this?
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Yes, you can wait to Jelly Bean to improve the Voice Search
Regards,
Urko

Oh, thank you.

I personally want my robot voice to sound as much like marvin as possible, however if that doesn't float your boat, here's a great alternative to the inbuilt voice synthesizer!

Thank you very much for recommending the alternative, Ivona Text-to-Speech HQ. I installed it and downloaded a voice and it sounds way better then the depressed robot. Haha!

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voice text message app

Okay heres the deal i text message alot when im driving and i use bluetooth headsets so i can hear music and i can also talk. so i there an app out there where i can speak and it can write what im saying on the phone and send it as a text message. tried google voice and dont work for me. can anyone point me to the right direction please? thanks in advance
jgu71424 said:
Okay heres the deal i text message alot when im driving and i use bluetooth headsets so i can hear music and i can also talk. so i there an app out there where i can speak and it can write what im saying on the phone and send it as a text message. tried google voice and dont work for me. can anyone point me to the right direction please? thanks in advance
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Perhaps Voice on the Go, I use it on my HD2 and it works well
Here's the link: http://consumer.voiceonthego.com/VOGOPortal/
Youd more than likely have to pay for a service like Voice To Go for something like that. It's just that there aren't any good enough programs out right now that can do this for you. Some have better luck than others, but it's all up to you. Look up Microsoft TellMe because it does have that feature, but try it yourself and see how it works for you. Beyond that I can't really suggest anything else.

Jelly Bean - Voice assistant doesn't speak

Just got the OTA to Jelly Bean. Everything works fine except the voice search/assistant - it doesn't speak when I ask sometging (for example weather). I have set US English everywhere, set the assistant to always speak, but it still doesn't speak. Any suggestions are welcome.
Is you volume on? Yes, silly question, but make sure your volume is on. Maybe put in headphones and see if it works. Very basic ideas, but thats all I can think of
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Hello I have a i9020a AT&T. My voice lady speaks to me when I ask her questions.
I flashed the factory images for Soju and then installed the .zip from google servers using CWM then I flashed my radio back and booted up.
Everything is smooth and FINE.
-M
my google now and voice search results speak out loud to me as well.
axurt said:
Just got the OTA to Jelly Bean. Everything works fine except the voice search/assistant - it doesn't speak when I ask sometging (for example weather). I have set US English everywhere, set the assistant to always speak, but it still doesn't speak. Any suggestions are welcome.
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its not speak for every search ..only that from database
like weather...usa president

S Voice Sucks...other options pls

Played with S Voice for 2-hours and still no real good continuous success. I have an exchange account so phone locks with pin S voice does not wake properly in this manner...
With my old HTC if the phone was pin locked and off I could hit my BT button and say "Call Home" and it would dial and connect. With S Voice it tries but with the screen pin locked it just fails.... 1 out of 10 tries I might get the bell so I can say my command...and wake function does not let you say a command to wake deviec with BT headset on/active...
What other voice dialing app can I use to replace S Voice?
Vlingo is pretty good at dialing and texting especially hands free ( in car mode). This phone REALLY should of had google search/google voice when it was introduced. I know JB wasn't officially released yet when it was launched. Samsung should really update to JB and incorperate google voice if it wants to compete with the Iphone 5.
parcou said:
Played with S Voice for 2-hours and still no real good continuous success. I have an exchange account so phone locks with pin S voice does not wake properly in this manner...
With my old HTC if the phone was pin locked and off I could hit my BT button and say "Call Home" and it would dial and connect. With S Voice it tries but with the screen pin locked it just fails.... 1 out of 10 tries I might get the bell so I can say my command...and wake function does not let you say a command to wake deviec with BT headset on/active...
What other voice dialing app can I use to replace S Voice?
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I couldn't get S Voice to work consistently with my BT. I found the voice dialer.apk from an ICS rom and installed it on my phone. It works great for voice dialing.
EVA or AVX
I have AVX on my phone - it's the most fully-featured of any voice app. It's not good at answering general knowledge questions (it's not for that), but it rocks at controlling every aspect of your phone via voice. Can even interact with Tasker! And it supports texting via Google Voice which I use. Also AVX's younger sister EVA which is the exact same app, but different GUI and cheaper - all the same functionality though. Do a youtube search for AVX on Galaxy S3.
I've used S-Voice, Vlingo, Iris, and a few others. My personal favorite is SpeakToIt Assistant found in the play store.
However, one thing I do like about S-Voice is the Wolfram Alpha integration.
EightMinMile said:
I've used S-Voice, Vlingo, Iris, and a few others. My personal favorite is SpeakToIt Assistant found in the play store.
However, one thing I do like about S-Voice is the Wolfram Alpha integration.
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I agree SpeakToItAssistant is the best that I have found. Skyvi is pretty good but there is too many ads.
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EightMinMile said:
I've used S-Voice, Vlingo, Iris, and a few others. My personal favorite is SpeakToIt Assistant found in the play store.
However, one thing I do like about S-Voice is the Wolfram Alpha integration.
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Thank you
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jlokos said:
I couldn't get S Voice to work consistently with my BT. I found the voice dialer.apk from an ICS rom and installed it on my phone. It works great for voice dialing.
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PM sent would like to try. Thz
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Robin in the app store is great. I believe it will be the closest siri competitor. It offers a variety of ways to control your phone through voice and gives quirky answers to a variety of questions.
As far as I can tell, SpeakToIt doesn't support bluetooth - Speaktoit doesn't listen to the bluetooth device's mic.and
Speaktoit doesn't trigger with the bluetooth device's command.
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There is a thread on the ATT Galaxy S3 which gives directions for replacing s-voice with google now voice search.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1823194
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I've looked inside the flashable.zip from the above link - but am not comfortable manually messing with the apk's
Damn I guess I'm one of the few people who likes S Voice lol
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Here is a way to replace s-voice with Google Voice Search that works (I posted about 8 lines down on the 1st page)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1760203
I actually love s voice. Works great for sending texts while driving. That's the only reason I keep going back to tw from aosp lol
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I simply took the google widget and resized it smaller so all you see is a bit more then the microphone icon.
I just press that and it works like a charm. (I use Go Launcher so I don't know if this works on the standard launcher) .
You get used to this pretty quickly.
Use AVX... you wont regret it.
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I phone 5 lol..
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I like s-voice too. I think that the people who think it sucks are simply expecting too much from it.
This whole siri/s-voice/Google now is still a new mobile technology and people really shouldn't have such high expectations from it so early on...
While Google Now is still an evolving technology, I've been impressed with how fast the recognition has become in the latest release. I look forward to the next iteration.

Jell Bean Voice Input

i was using anysoft keyboard with voice input to say anything i wanted to convert to text either in google voice or google now. but ever since i update the anysoft app it gives me a list of possibilities and i have to click 1 to actually input it as text which kind of defeats the purpose. Attached are a few screenshots of what im talking about. Can someone please help!!!
and yes im rooted

Google Dialer Vs OnePlus Dialer

Hey guys, just a quick question. Those of you rooted (or non-rooted, doesn't really matter) what's your opinion on Google Dialer? Is it worth installing the framework and using it? What advantages and disadvantages does it have? I've tried searching the web but can't really get a decent answer, just a load of "I use it" and "I don't use it" without reasons. Thanks in advance.
pratzyushd said:
Hey guys, just a quick question. Those of you rooted (or non-rooted, doesn't really matter) what's your opinion on Google Dialer? Is it worth installing the framework and using it? What advantages and disadvantages does it have? I've tried searching the web but can't really get a decent answer, just a load of "I use it" and "I don't use it" without reasons. Thanks in advance.
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There are some tiny differences that I can't even think of but nothing game changing. They both make phone calls and thats good enough for me lol.
pratzyushd said:
Hey guys, just a quick question. Those of you rooted (or non-rooted, doesn't really matter) what's your opinion on Google Dialer? Is it worth installing the framework and using it? What advantages and disadvantages does it have? I've tried searching the web but can't really get a decent answer, just a load of "I use it" and "I don't use it" without reasons. Thanks in advance.
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Couple of advantages with Google Dialer are
1. Frequent updates through play store
2. Identifying unknown callers
I am not crazy about those two features, so I am content with stock dialer
Google Dialer is better - identify unkonwn callers and search for numbers in Google's online database, although it does not support call recording.
giaur said:
Google Dialer is better - identify unkonwn callers and search for numbers in Google's online database, although it does not support call recording.
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It does if you install call recording through Magisk, also I have call screening
dubt17 said:
It does if you install call recording through Magisk, also I have call screening
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how did you get call recording on google dialer?
sydsick42069 said:
how did you get call recording on google dialer?
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Go to this thread. Enjoy. It works great. https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/themes/wip-enabling-google-pixel-call-t3946535/page16
justibasa said:
Go to this thread. Enjoy. It works great. https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/themes/wip-enabling-google-pixel-call-t3946535/page16
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I'm looking for call recording, I already have call screening. thanks though.
The stock dialer works with my Visual Voicemail on T-Mobile and has built in call recording so I use that although Google Dialer gets more updates.
sydsick42069 said:
I'm looking for call recording, I already have call screening. thanks though.
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I am looking for the same thing as well. Let me know if you find anything.

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