Hi all,
I've been playing around with the semi-new high-quality TTS voices, and I'd really like to use the UK voice for navigation and Google Now. Unfortunately, selecting other voices in the Text-To-Speech menu does not change either of those two voices (It does work in other apps, like utter!.) I messed around with INOVA as well, with the same problem. The only fix I've found so far is to change the entire default system language to English (UK), but that also has the effect of changing my clock to 24-hour, and a few other British tweaks that I'd rather not have, and it still doesn't solve the problem of letting me choose the British male voice (or any INOVA voice.) Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Almost forgot: Running Nexus 5, rooted, stock ROM +Xposed-- if there's an Xposed module out there that will do this, please let me know!
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Hey - Not sure where to post this.
Anyway, does anyone else have problems with the voice search on Android? I have the HD2 with an Android ROM.
I boot up Google Navigation and use the voice search option, the box comes up and I speak, for example: "Keele University". Now, I have a pretty deep voice and im not the cleanest of speakers, but its mad!
I'll get "Navigate to Hello", or something stupid :| Now I know this isnt perfect but damn, how is "Keele University" close to "Hello"? Or, "Wynbunbury"... "Navigate to ocsh".
So yeah, is it just me or does it really suck atm =/
Hey out there, I'm currently rocking with the TnT Lite 3.1.3 and have bought the Co-Pilot navigation app.
It came with it's own internal voices which is not TTS capable. After doing alot of reading, it appears that us Android 2.2 users are in luck as Co-Pilot will use Android's TTS engine and voices.
So the next step was to locate a voice, I finally decided to purchase the Loquendo - Susan voice and was able to install it.
Now the issue - according to the instructions and other posting on the net, I need to set the Loquendo as the default TTS engine by going to Settings -> Voice input & output -> Text-to-speech settings. In the TnT-Lite 3.1.3 there is not such setting (Voice Input & Output), I've looked everywhere.
One internet posting suggested installing TTS Service Extended and it looked promising as it did allow me to set the default TTS engine to Loquendo. The good news was that Co-Pilot now recognized that there was a TTS voice but it still used the Pico TTS default voice, so my suspicions are the the TTS Service Extended only partly enabled the TTS functionality in Android 2.2.
Does anyone know where the Voice Input & Output setting is or how to enable it?
It might not be packed into that ROM. I know in the previous Vegan betas that setting was omitted. I believe they swapped the Settings.APK file and it was back in the latest Vegan. I had to do the same as you. I used PICO TTS, set in a round about way as you did, in the meantime since I couldnt activate and set Loquendo. It seems like the back end is there we just can't access the GUI so if you can figure out a command or another app that can control this it may be worth a shot.
Based on what I've been able to find so far, it's REALLY slim. The only control that I was able to find is the TTS Service Extended app.
hmmmm.... vegan here i come!!!
TTS Efforts
Please post back your success/failure on this issue. I've been grappling with it for a few weeks and had an open question (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879537&page=2) about the text to speech with Co-Pilot.
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Please post back your success/failure on this issue. I've been grappling with it for a few weeks and had an open question (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879537&page=2) about the text to speech with Co-Pilot.
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OK, switt was right, the setting is NORMALLY there for Android 2.2 but in the TnT-Lite 3.1.3 firmware it hasn't been included. I'm not sure if it's that way from the stock TnT firmware but I suspect it is.
I flashed to the VEGAn beta 5.1 and yep there it was @ Settings -> Voice input & output. I wasn't too excited yet because the settings looked an awful lot like the TTS Serviced Extended app I found.
I set everything up and started up CoPilot and voila, clear TTS with the Loquendo - Susan voice!!
On an aside, I do have to say that my understanding was that VEGAn offered a more accurate Android look and feel, but I never really understood what that meant. However, after flashing VEGAn, I can now see all those settings that I couldn't find in TnT for example the setting for the synchronization of Gmail accounts was right where all the internet posts said it was.
TTS - Vegan Here I come
OK well that settles it, time for a new direction. I had been staying with the TnT Lite versions but looks like it is time to try and flash VEGan. No other excuses now.
So I took the leap to VEGAN-TAB and downloaded to SVOX TTS Engine and then purchased the Victoria UK Voice. Works fine, will test later with Co-Pilot. What I was looking for in the Market was Loquendo - Elizabeth or Kate but only saw Loquendo - Susan. I wonder if the UK voices are available for Android or if I am being shut out by being in the USA? Just have a thing for those English Accents.
Hi all,
Even though this device will probably have not sold too well outside China, I hope someone can help me with this.
First of all, I love SmartisanOS, but there are some small aspects that could be better.
The inability to change the "theme" (as in the colour of the toggles and menus items etc) is gone (I'm at version 6.6.1.2_TNT) is a shame.
The lack of split screen
And finally, and this is where I could use some help, I can't get Google Assistant to work.
Did anyone get around this?
Thanks a lot in advance for your support and input.
I couldn't get it working, this and lack of split screen makes me sad.
Assistant
I haven't been able to use it either, however, I'm using Microsoft Launcher, and I can use its assistant on the home screen, Cortana.
Yes, you can, just use a button remapper and map our extra button for the app "google voice search", with one click you have a working Google assistant.
Hi,
I know how to change voices, speed, and pitch. This is all no problem. I can use the already available options without difficulty.
However, I want to be able to change (shorten) the pauses for commas, spaces, line-breaks, and periods. I also want to be able to program in word swaps. For instance, if the engine sees "HP" it says horsepower, but I'd rather it say "H P" or "hit points".
Is there a way to uncover these controls? I know that word swapping was possible with an old version of the TTS plug-in with FBReader, but that's old, old code now, and a pain to use. I've no problem with buying another app, but I do want to use the Google TTS engine as I prefer one of the voices. Tried another reader that does the dictionary thing, but not the pauses. Not worth the switch as its max speed is low.
As per subject, voice dictation with Gboard is not working most of the times.
I have also found out that this happens only if I have two languages configured: if I set only one language, all works properly.
Maybe Google assumed that only one language would be used at a time? I imagine there's a limit on how many languages can be used on one phone. YMMV
jaseman said:
Maybe Google assumed that only one language would be used at a time? I imagine there's a limit on how many languages can be used on one phone. YMMV
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It was working once
So here's a how I solved: I still have two languages configured but multilingual has been disabled for both. Have to show the change language button now (with drawback of losing the icon change button) to be able to switch between English and Italian.