Just received an email with the Vlingo beta apk. I have not tried it yet but since this forum has helped me a ton, I figured I might be able to return the favor. Below are the instructions directly from the email:
Installing Vlingo for Android
1. Check the Unknown Sources item in Settings > Applications
This is required since Vlingo is not yet in the Android Market
Unknown apps screen
2. Open the Browser and browse to *********
NOTE: Please do not share this link with anyone else
3. When the file is finished downloading click on it and then click the Install button
4. Click the Open button when you see the Application Installed message
Add Vlingo to your Home Screen
1. Press and hold in an empty space on your home screen
2. Click Widgets (or sometimes it will be called Android Widgets)
Pick widget
3. Scroll down and click Vlingo
Add Vlingo to your keyboard
Speak anywhere you can type
1. Open Settings > Language & Keyboard
2. Check Vlingo Keyboard
Enable keyboard
3. Press and hold in any text box on your phone and click Input Method
4. Click on Vlingo Keyboard
Setup keyboard
5. You can now press the microphone icon (Speak button) to speak to any text box.
Known Issues
* Vlingo requires Android version 2.0 or higher to work
* While Vlingo should work on most Android 2.0+ devices, Vlingo has only been fully tested on the Google Nexus One and the Verizon Droid
Thanks!
This is a really great App. I really missed not having this when I switched over from the iphone.
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you are aware that the default AOSP keyboard has this option right? as well as the newest HTC ime keyboard?, and the latest better keyboard?
dmc971989 said:
you are aware that the default AOSP keyboard has this option right? as well as the newest HTC ime keyboard?, and the latest better keyboard?
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Yeah, the default keyboard does do text to type, but Vlingo lets you open apps, call people and a lot more stuff. It is pretty cool.
The Vlingo voice recognition seems to work better and faster then the stock stuff.
What I really like is the voice search widget, it works really well. You can use commands like "find wal mart in Denver Colorado" and it will give you all the results on a map with details and you can call etc.
Works better then the other apps available IMO.
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jpeepers said:
What I really like is the voice search widget, it works really well. You can use commands like "find wal mart in Denver Colorado" and it will give you all the results on a map with details and you can call etc.
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The voice search that's built into the navigator app does that as well. I can say "Navigate to Wal Mart", it brings me up a list of Wal Marts in the area, and fires up google navigation to guide me there. It's also location aware, so if I simply do a voice search on "Marriott", it brings up the google result for the nearest Marriott hotel to my current location.
Another cool little app is Choice Dialer. It's very good at voice dialing, but it also lets you do things like "Schedule an event for next Wednesday at 2 PM", or "Play music by Motley Crue"....
Definitely going to give this app a try. It'll take A LOT to get me to give up Swype as my regular keyboard.
Regardless of whether I end up using this particular app or not, with all the laws being passed about cell phone use while driving, voice recognition is no longer just a "neat toy", it's becoming a necessity. So I applaud anyone and everyone who is working to advance the state of the art in this field.
I have not been able to install it. They don't specify if there is an Android version requirement, which I am guessing there is. I am running 1.5.
Ceger
Ceger said:
I have not been able to install it. They don't specify if there is an Android version requirement, which I am guessing there is. I am running 1.5.
Ceger
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Says right in the OP that it requires Android 2.0 or higher.
subliminalurge said:
Definitely going to give this app a try. It'll take A LOT to get me to give up Swype as my regular keyboard.
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+1 to that. I love Swype. Best app I have dled by far!
Finally got a chance to play around with this app this morning.
Observations so far... The keyboard seems pretty good, although I won't be replacing Swype with it. Voice accuracy seems solid. It doesn't handle "Navigate to" very well. If I say "Navigate to Wal Mart" it just brings up nearby wal marts in google maps. On the built in voice search, it fires up navigation and handles the request properly. Given that this is still a beta, it could be that they just haven't tweaked it to take advantage of Android's capabilities yet.
Seems about the same speed as google's voice search.
But now the deal breaker. I've been getting frequent "unable to connect to server" errors this morning. I've verified that my data connection is working fine. This may be a beta, but they have versions for other handsets that are in production, so the beta thing is no excuse for their servers being down.
All things considered, this seems like a solid effort, but I don't see where it brings very many advantages to the table in comparison to the built in voice search. And if their servers aren't reliable, I can't really justify putting it into daily use no matter how good it is.
swype keyboard for life, but this vlingo could go somewhere, my only problem is, it didnt give me the widget.
i uninstalled and re-installed. nothing.
keyofhappy said:
swype keyboard for life, but this vlingo could go somewhere, my only problem is, it didnt give me the widget.
i uninstalled and re-installed. nothing.
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That's odd. The widget's working fine for me.
In truth, it doesn't really add much. You can get nearly the same result by just putting the app icon on your home screen. The widget does eliminate one extra button press, but for some unknown reason they made it 4 spaces wide.
Not enough functionality to justify losing that much screen real estate, IMHO.
EDIT: Ah, you can set it to come up when you long press the search button. Accomplishes the same thing as the widget, and doesn't use up 4 spaces on your screen.
Ooh, another annoyance...
They use yahoo rather than google for searches. No place to change it in the settings.
Another observation...
Google's voice recognition cuts me off after a fairly short time. Vlingo has let me compose some pretty lengthy emails all at one shot, whereas creating the same message with the stock voice recognition required me to do it in 4 or 5 chunks.
This almost makes writing email on my phone easier than my desktop with the full sized keyboard.
Do you have to be using it as the keyboard, or can it be used as a stand alone talk to text, or for opening programs and what not?
Negrito said:
Do you have to be using it as the keyboard, or can it be used as a stand alone talk to text, or for opening programs and what not?
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You do not have to use the keyboard part of it. Everything else will work just the same without using its keyboard.
Mike
crazymike1234 said:
2. Open the Browser and browse to *********
NOTE: Please do not share this link with anyone else
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lol nice
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regaw_leinad said:
lol nice
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Hey...It said do not share the link. It didn't say anything about the file
Mike
Yet another feature of Android that is only in webs' wet dreams. After overall year after announcement, still no API's for the mic, amazing.
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You do not have to use the keyboard part of it. Everything else will work just the same without using its keyboard.
Mike
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Cool. Got it installed and played with it a bit. Me likey! Thanks for sharing.
Saw this tweeted, any truth?
It shows your browser passwords on ASUS keyboard suggestion lists.
SlyGT said:
Saw this tweeted, any truth?
It shows your browser passwords on ASUS keyboard suggestion lists.
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I've yet to see this happen a single time. In fact, I've not yet seen it suggest a single word that I've entered multiple times, that wasn't in the stock dictionary. That's on default settings, both on the stock firmware, and on the latest available version.
So when typing your password in the box you won't see it, i.g. ********. But will show up on keyboard suggestion.
I haven't used the default keyboard, but there is a setting in one of the honeycomb menus that lets you make your password visible vs having the **** there. Dunno if somehow having that setting to show what you type affects the keyboard recording passwords or not.
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This happens for certain text boxes or webpages. When it happens, you will see word suggestions on top of the default keyboard. This happens to me while I was trying to log onto gmail through the built-in browser. I hope there is a fix for this soon because when I'm typing my password, everyone around me can see it.
My passwords did show up in the suggestion area of the ASUS keyboard as I was typing it and thought that was a bit of an issue - think it was eBay or my web mail, but just tested it again now and it does not. I have just updated to the latest firmware so that may have included a fix. Anyone tried it who has not upgraded firmware yet?
has anyone been successful with the Infinity an this JB release. I tried a few .apk I found from the previous Gnow that allowed this but they all had only the standard google typing functionality, none of the google now. I would very much appreciate anyone who can provide an answer to this. Also does anyone else wish the "hotword" worked anytime and not just from the google now screen. Even better imagine we could record our own word that would cause gnow to pop up? That would be pimpin.
Hi,
I have been going crazy trying to get search results to display in the address bar in the IE10 Modern UI on my Surface RT.
In the desktop mode this works as expected - as I type a search term in the address bar it gives me google suggestions, as well as results from within my favourites and recently visited sites. The add-on is configured to put search results in the address bar.
However, when using IE10 in Modern mode it only gives me search results for favourites and recently visited - it won't give me search suggestions.
Has anyone else had this problem?
I have tried uninstall/reinstall of IE, I have removed and re-added the add-ons (I've tried for both Bing and Google - neither work). I have also done a 'refresh my PC,' but to no avail.
Thanks for your help,
aeloen
I think it don't have search suggestions on Modern UI IE. If you want it that much maybe you need to set homepage to Bing or Google. And set "new tab page" to homepage too.
Do look into all the options under the Settings charm in Modern IE, just to be sure, I guess... but personally, I only use the desktop mode. The other is simply too crippled, feature-wise.
aeloen said:
However, when using IE10 in Modern mode it only gives me search results for favourites and recently visited - it won't give me search suggestions.
aeloen
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Okay, aeloen. Now I find a way to get "search suggestions" on IE10 Modern mode. If you want suggestions. You won't type in address bar. But you need to type in search box. By press search button on keyboard or Windows+Q. This way will get you search suggestions as you type.
Hope this help.
I setup and sent some SMS to a group of contacts. I have realised that I need to add an extra person to the group. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to accomplish this. Searched extensively already: the only thing I've found reference to is an 'Add Person' icon that does not display for me.
If I go into the Hangout, clicking on the list of names at the top serves to activate the < which takes me back to the main Hangouts list.
If I access the People and Options sub-menu it displays the current "People in this Hangout" but there is no option to add anyone new.
Any suggestions please?
KitKat 4.4.2
Hangouts 2.0.217
Just came upon this doing a google search looking for the same thing.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible. Did you ever figure it out?
I can't comprehend how something made by google and being pushed so hard in Android is so user unfriendly. How is this not an option??
Vcize said:
Just came upon this doing a google search looking for the same thing.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible. Did you ever figure it out?
I can't comprehend how something made by google and being pushed so hard in Android is so user unfriendly. How is this not an option??
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No, although I haven't tried in the updated versions of Hangouts, but I'm guessing if you're just posting here that it's still not working. I agree it seems like a basic function for something they have forced upon us.