In order for me to use Google Now's hotword ("OK Google...") I have to set my language to English (US). This is fine, but I hate having to correct language differences (e.g. "Call Mum" vs. "Call Mom", "Colour" vs. "Color" when searching Google Drive etc.) and wonder, what prevents Google Now from displaying the hotword tick box in the settings? Is it a flag or phrase in the offline language file? Is it hard-coded into the APK? And more importantly, is it possible to enable the hotword option while retaining a non-English (US) language setting?
I'm waiting for my Nexus 5 to arrive (hopefully the day after tomorrow, as tomorrow is a public holiday), and one of the purchasing decisions for me was the Moto X-esque hotword detection from the homescreen (and hopefully, always-on hotword detection?), so it'd be good to use my language of choice, while keeping an advertised feature.
Related
Hi,
In order to get the news from my country, i need to set the locale of the phone to match my country.
I need to set both language and country.
This works fine (with "MoreLocale2" app) but it changes the localisation of my phone.
I only want to change the locale for this app.
(I don't want to change the OS language or the time/dates formats. It looks better in English..)
Any ideas how to achieve this?
You're not the only one... As far as I can see, it seems to set the country given to the IP address of the Wifi link or, when available, from GPS coordinates. If geoip location is unavailable, I think it falls back to the current locale set in the OS, which is a problem for me, given that I set Spanish as the language, but live in Latinamerica, so most of the news it gets are irrelevant.
So there's no configuration option. Too bad...
Latest version of google translate works really well on the note, the latest version for one very good reason.
It supports handwriting recognition, (in a few languages to start with)
its much more accurate than the stock samsung recognition, works full screen but is a bit slower..
now all we need is for google to give us that handwriting recognition as a standalone keyboard and we'll be made!
https://market.android.com/details?...vbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5hcHBzLnRyYW5zbGF0ZSJd
Don(t work for me. Pb of connection and sometimes FC...
Let's say I have two or more voices installed for the same language - country combination, like "en-US". One could be female, the other male voice for example. How could I switch these programmatically? There seems to be no way...
I can easily switch any time between "en-UK" and "en-US" voices by using something like:
myTTS.setLanguage(locale);
but for switching voices within the same locale, nothing. Looks to me like a flaw in Android TextToSpeech class design... Or is there some way of which I'm not aware? FYI, the high quality IVONA voices (still in free beta in Google Play Store) have "Select preferred voice" setting for each language locale. The other TTS engines I have installed (Pico, Google and SVOX Classic) do not offer this option yet, so maybe the only way to do this would be to access the private settings of IVONA engine?
Greg
Hello
I am working on my dissertation & I want to use Google Speech API to distinguish users by there voice.
I have seen and imported the Google Speech API Sample from
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/android-docs-samples/tree/master/speech/Speech
Before I was trying to use DialogFlow (used to be API.AI), didnt have much luck. Thought it might be better to use Google Speech API instead.
is this even possible to start with?
I was also looking at "Actions on Google"
https://developers.google.com/actions/identity/user-info
thanks for any input
Have you figured out how to achieve it?
The Samsung keyboard app comes preloaded with the input language of the phone's region (let's say Korean). Of course you can add other input languages and the keyboard app will remember the last language you used for normal text inputs. However, that's not the case for password fields - there, it always defaults to the preloaded language and does not remember your recent language selection (that means you can change the input language in a password field, but next time it will be the preloaded language again).
The only way to change it is to disable the preloaded language (removing it is not possible), then it seems to default to the earliest (not disabled) installed language, and still doesn't remember a different language selection. I don't know if that's just a bug or if there's some hidden setting for this. Since it chooses the earliest installed language, is there a way to change the language list hierarchy somewhere in the settings/properties? That would at least allow me to set the default password field language to the most convenient one, even if it still doesn't remember the last used language.
This issue is not device specific because it affects the Samsung keyboard app (on the recent Android versions) and how it handles password fields. Is there a possible workaround?