Just trying some basic things on Google Voice commands on my HTC One (had since launch) and i keep getting weird errors.
If i say "send text to Adam test" it does it as i want.
However if i say send text to Karla, it searches for contacts called Carla.
Same for Rachael, searches for Rachel.
However if i switch from English UK to English US they both work fine.
Also "send text to mum" just does not work on any language. She's in the phone as Mum, but it just refuses to do it. If i say to do anything with mum it just does a google search every single time.
There must be a way to change this without changing the system language or the contacts names? Saying "send text to phil" loads up a contact called Philip so it's smart enough....
Narom88 said:
Just trying some basic things on Google Voice commands on my HTC One (had since launch) and i keep getting weird errors.
If i say "send text to Adam test" it does it as i want.
However if i say send text to Karla, it searches for contacts called Carla.
Same for Rachael, searches for Rachel.
However if i switch from English UK to English US they both work fine.
Also "send text to mum" just does not work on any language. She's in the phone as Mum, but it just refuses to do it. If i say to do anything with mum it just does a google search every single time.
There must be a way to change this without changing the system language or the contacts names? Saying "send text to phil" loads up a contact called Philip so it's smart enough....
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ive had problems with voice, seems if i try other voice programs google voice acts eraticly, ive fixed sometimes uninstalling the others, once i had to do a restore of the system
No other voice programs installed, just Google Voice Search.
Narom88 said:
Also "send text to mum" just does not work on any language.
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I've heard that adding a pause before the name helps in this situation. In other words say, "send text to" pause for a moment, then say the name.
Doesn't make a difference. It knows im saying "send text to mum" because it does a google search for it instead.
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Does anyone know of any Windows Mobile 6 Voice SMS programs?
I drive a lot, and typing on a small keyboard while driving is not all that comfortable. So i was wondering if there is any program which would let me speak the words into a SMS message and the words would translate into text.
I don't think most PPC devices really have the muscle for accurate speech to text. It's only recently that it's quality has gotten fairly acceptable for PCs with processors a good 10-15 times faster than most PDA phones have available to them.
I use Jott (www.jott.com) semiregularly and it's a really nice service. If you're based in the USA, you find it useful for your needs.
As avatar said, I don't think PPCs have the processing power (yet).
As avatar said most software in this category is quite unreliable. If you do a google search for this software are try the first few options available you will discover this for yourself
tye said:
I use Jott (www.jott.com) semiregularly and it's a really nice service. If you're based in the USA, you find it useful for your needs.
As avatar said, I don't think PPCs have the processing power (yet).
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I was looking more of a program which will allow me to speak out a text message and convert my words into text so I can send a text message to a phone number. Jott only sends out emails.
datzent83 said:
I was looking more of a program which will allow me to speak out a text message and convert my words into text so I can send a text message to a phone number. Jott only sends out emails.
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yeah ive been hunting for something like that for a while... still looking. As far as text to speech goes the best available is textspeech pro
I am searching speech to text software for a long time too. I really want to record my job meeting by my phone and it can convert the meeting converasation to a word document or PDF file, then it is easier to make a memo for the meeting. Also, I don't need to busy to drop note in the meeting.
If anyone who know that kind of Program?
datzent83 said:
Does anyone know of any Windows Mobile 6 Voice SMS programs?
I drive a lot, and typing on a small keyboard while driving is not all that comfortable. So i was wondering if there is any program which would let me speak the words into a SMS message and the words would translate into text.
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I think this might be what you are looking for?
http://www.blondiesoft.com/software/mobile/TellMeText/
alc630 said:
I think this might be what you are looking for?
http://www.blondiesoft.com/software/mobile/TellMeText/
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Thanks for your reply, but the software you mentioned above is a text-to-speech,
software but not a speech-to-text. They are not the same kind of software.
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Thanks for your reply, but the software you mentioned above is a text-to-speech,
software but not a speech-to-text. They are not the same kind of software.
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I'll keep looking!
I know that there are apps for speech to text for the iphone and for Blackberrys. Somebody's gotta be able to do it.
Try Dial2Do
Someone above said that Jott doesn't do texts. I used to send text messages while driving with them all the time. According to their website they still do it. But I quit Jott when they went out of beta, and switched to Dial2do. Same functionality, as far as texting goes, but a free service.
http://www.dial2do.com/
Try Speereo
Well ther's a new app called tellme which uses your voice for text, searching internet and many other features... just a quick search here and it will take you to the thread but its only compatible with WM6.5, and you need to install microsoft voice command before installing tellme...
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16730/android_voice_control_without_froyo
Vlingo has announced that effectively immediately, it's voice to action is now FREE
Thanks gonna try it.
I just downloaded Vlingo...but when I say the "send text" command it opens up the native Android SMS app, even though I have Google Voice as the default SMS app on my phone. How do I get Vlingo to open Google Voice when sending texts?
It may not be able to integrate to it. It's only advertised to work with the defaults after all. GV is an addition in 2.1, so I cant say.
Try "text via voice" or something similar. You could also contact the developer.
How is working with battery? Does it drain battery a lot?
Honestly? I don't know. I suppose it does no more than Google Voice Search, when in use.
Despite the cool factor, this doesn't make Captivate a KITT
Works with handcent sms fine. For sms, I prefer it. Also has a widget to turn on read aloud for sms.
Edwin seems to open apps better. Edwin has translation. You can also have search results come back as audio.
Google default dials contacts faster but this shows phone book and google results which is nice.
Overall great addition.
Also like gesture search app. Try that one out.
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The problem I'm having with this, as well as the Google Voice thingamabob, is that I have to tell it the whole name of someone in my contact list before it recognizes who I'm talking about. It misses on first names every time, even if the first name I ask it to call or text is unique on the contact list. I had hoped Vlingo would be an improvement, but, alas....
Hi,
When I first installed the new Google Voice search I could only do a few actions via voice. Call, navigate to, directions and search. I couldn't do either of the send to text or email. I would say "send text peter" and it would understand what i said but just give me the option to search. I knew I had the same files as everyone else who had it all working, so it had to me something with my phone. I live in the uk so therefore have default language as English UK. Tried setting language to English US. And it worked. All voice options are now there.
So if you want to try all of the functions and don't live in the US just change your lanuage to US.
Hope that is of help.
I am trying to use Google Voice Search for voice dialing. But if I say "Call Home" (**edit - home is an entry in my Contacts) it will search the internet and give me choices to call Home Depot, etc. Is there a way to use (and limit) Google Voice Search to my contacts? In fact, my contacts don't seem to be involved in the search at all.
What am I missing - Google Voice Search is used for dialing contacts isn't it? If so, I can't be the only one to have noticed this. If not - I won't be offended at being told it is a dumb question...
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What am I missing - Google Voice Search is used for dialing contacts isn't it? If so, I can't be the only one to have noticed this. If not - I won't be offended at being told it is a dumb question...
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Do the other features of google search work such as Navigate to "insert address" ? But yeah I think it is supposed to be able to call out if I remember correctly. Is it picking up the keyword of Call ? have you tried going through your other contacts to see if it dials those correctly?
Looks like the issue is that it only looks to the Google Contacts not Phone Contacts (all the tests I made were Phone Contacts only)
I have a couple of contacts that are Phone only - I added them again as Google Contacts, then joined them with the original Phone record. Now it works (at least as well as it can). Sure do wish I could specify to search contacts only - wouldn't be so hard...
Thanks for your response - it got me digging a bit deeper.
So, I posted this on a google forum and had a look across XDA in general, but either the silence is deafening, very few people have noticed (or care) or no one has an answer?
It's bugging me, so I'm hoping someone here might know or at least offer some suggestions..
Trying to use Voice Search to create and send an SMS message to one of my contacts exposed really weird behavior in Android...
** Contacts set up correctly with properly formatted phone numbers and defaults set. I'm in the UK but often travel so want to set up numbers
for people in the standard format e.g. +44 7973 XX XX XX
** I can dial the number exactly as formatted and the call goes through
** I can send an SMS from Hangouts.. BUT when I select a contact and their number appears as an option to SMS to.. the "leading" +44 (country code) gets
stripped out by Hangouts and a "0" is added in (to be compliant with the format for dialing within a country I guess).
So +44 7973 XX XX XX appears as 07973 XX XX XX - and this works fine!
** When using Voice search to create and send an SMS however, the number that appears on screen that it's trying to send to is the *exact* number
from the phone book - that is, the country code is NOT stripped out - so different from how the hangouts app displays it.. and the message fails to
send as a result.
So, it seems as though Google deliberately re-format the phone number for SMS when you do it through Hangouts, but not when you use Voice
(even though that message does get sent through Hangouts ultimately?)
The only solution I can think of, is to go through and remove the +Country Code prefix from all of my contacts, to ensure
that SMS via Voice Search will work consistently... What's going on?!?!? Anyone got any ideas ? Its not an obvious bug, but its definitely there..
Anyone?!
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Anyone?!
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I can't talk about hangouts because I don't use it, nor voice.... but +44 should not fail to send SMS. All my frequently contacted contacts are +44 and send fine, without being changed or stripped out.
Please wait 24 hours before bumping threads
rootSU said:
I can't talk about hangouts because I don't use it, nor voice.... but +44 should not fail to send SMS. All my frequently contacted contacts are +44 and send fine, without being changed or stripped out.
Please wait 24 hours before bumping threads
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Sorry, will do in future. But thank you for replying
I agree with you that having +44 in the number shouldn't fail when sending SMS, but Hangouts definitely re-formats the number and I have to wonder
if it does that for a reason. Does the number displayed on the SMS app you do use, display the full number then when compared against the same
number in your contacts?
I'm going to install something like Handcent and see what that does (of course all bets are off ifthe app re-formats the number "internally" but displays
the unchanged number to the user). The only reason I've noticed this odd behaviour is because Hangouts makes it reasonably obvious that something
is going on.
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Sorry, will do in future. But thank you for replying
I agree with you that having +44 in the number shouldn't fail when sending SMS, but Hangouts definitely re-formats the number and I have to wonder
if it does that for a reason. Does the number displayed on the SMS app you do use, display the full number then when compared against the same
number in your contacts?
I'm going to install something like Handcent and see what that does (of course all bets are off ifthe app re-formats the number "internally" but displays
the unchanged number to the user). The only reason I've noticed this odd behaviour is because Hangouts makes it reasonably obvious that something
is going on.
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Yes the number in the default messaging app displays the same as in contacts and dialer. In full with +44 7*
It's been a while since I used KitKat stock, but does it not have the standard messaging app included, that lets you change to that? Lollipop does.
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Yes the number in the default messaging app displays the same as in contacts and dialer. In full with +44 7*
It's been a while since I used KitKat stock, but does it not have the standard messaging app included, that lets you change to that? Lollipop does.
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Yeah, I tried Handcent SMS, that didn't modify the number either and the SMS sent just fine. I guess why Hangouts modifies the number
for SMS when other apps don't, is for some mysterious reason Google has cooked up.
However, the "problem" is most definitely with the implementation of Voice Search for creating SMS (I only fell onto this thing because I wanted to - more safely -
send/reply to the occasional SMS whilst driving). Basically, it doesn't matter what SMS app is set as default.. creating a message and sending
by Voice Search just won't work if the number in your contacts has a +44 in it.. from the testing I've done anyway. The moment I edit the number
against the contact to just have an 0 (and re-sync Google Contacts), Voice Search created SMS's work...
(Also, whatever SMS app is the default always appears as an "Open Message in XXXX" after the Voice Search created SMS has been sent. If you click on it,
it takes you into the app but you can't see the most recently sent message in the message thread if the number is +44)
Perhaps you could give it a go with a +44 contact "Ok Google, Send text to XXXXX, Message, YYYYYY" ??
..aaaaand, I'm done. Any thoughts?
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Perhaps you could give it a go with a +44 contact "Ok Google, Send text to XXXXX, Message, YYYYYY" ??
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Say's sent, but when I open the messaging app, there is a Red triangle... When I open the existing message thread, it only shows THAT failed message. When I delete that message, the rest of the thread becomes available.
So yeah I guess it fails the same way
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Say's sent, but when I open the messaging app, there is a Red triangle... When I open the existing message thread, it only shows THAT failed message. When I delete that message, the rest of the thread becomes available.
So yeah I guess it fails the same way
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Ahh.. so I'm not going crazy! Wonder how long that's been broken?
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Ahh.. so I'm not going crazy! Wonder how long that's been broken?
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Dunno but I'm using the latest Lollipop preview released last week or two...
By the sounds of things.. for some time then if you're on Lollipop. I guess people either don't use Voice for that much (at all?), or haven't put two and two together enough for it to be something that's made its way back to Google to add to their fixes
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By the sounds of things.. for some time then if you're on Lollipop. I guess people either don't use Voice for that much (at all?), or haven't put two and two together enough for it to be something that's made its way back to Google to add to their fixes
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...or only have nationally formatted numbers instead of international...
True. Though out of curiousity I'd love to know why Hangouts does do a number re-format.. as a completely separate thing..
Not sure if this is related as I am UK based like you (so not really sure what it is) but google voice doesn't send texts to international numbers. I wonder if google now has some voice aspects built in and if hangouts is configured to allow sending through voice if you're subsribed? Hence the number changing? and possibly failures?
Manually sending SMS messages using a 3rd party app to numbers formatted for international dialing works. Going "via Google" be it using Voice Search or Hangouts, only works with internal numbers...
I think you might be onto something... :|
jms_uk said:
Manually sending SMS messages using a 3rd party app to numbers formatted for international dialing works. Going "via Google" be it using Voice Search or Hangouts, only works with internal numbers...
I think you might be onto something... :|
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Yeah there may be a link...
But the stock messaging app built in (you have a choice of hangouts or sms) also works as desired...
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Yeah there may be a link...
But the stock messaging app built in (you have a choice of hangouts or sms) also works as desired...
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Good to know.. but not when creating and sending SMS via Voice Search (so far I think we've established that unless contact numbers are reformatted and re-synced to omit the +44 and reinstate the 0, then
it can't be used for SMS)
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Good to know.. but not when creating and sending SMS via Voice Search (so far I think we've established that unless contact numbers are reformatted and re-synced to omit the +44 and reinstate the 0, then
it can't be used for SMS)
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Correct.
Manual through Stock SMS > +44 > OK
Manual through Hangouts > Convert to 0 > OK
Voice Command through anything > +44 > FAIL
Thanks for being a sounding board. Guess there's nowt left that can be done
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Correct.
Manual through Stock SMS > +44 > OK
Manual through Hangouts > Convert to 0 > OK
Voice Command through anything > +44 > FAIL
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..and to close things out, I received an auto-generated sms from my network saying..
"Yesterday you sent a message to an invalid number. UK mobile numbers start with 07 or +447. Numbers starting with 447 without the leading + are invalid"
So that pretty much confirms that whatever mechanism Voice Search uses to try and send texts is broken and doesn't/can't parse the + in a contact's phonenumber
where as the SMS apps do (probably due to the reasons you posted above)