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Hello all,
I just cannot believe what I am seeing!
I currently use CyanogenMod 7 and was sad because I couldn't find voice search in the Market.
After a quick look in the Web Market, I just learn that my Carrier (Base, Belgium) does not allow (see attached screenshot)
After Googling, I just feel alone because no one else reported same issue
Just installed Market Enabler and everything is fine.
I am just astonished to see that such a basic app is country-dependant
Same thing happened to me i just reflashed the rom.. and ofcourse wipe dalvik and wipe data/cache and it went away hope it helps
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Lol! Funny thread
Why is that a funny thread?
Because you live in America and you have access to all Google services?
Please think about all other countries that have to cross their fingers each time there is a new product/service/application to know if that will be available in their country.
That's just amazing that we have no information on why we have access to a limited services and having restriction on basic stuff like voice search because we live in other country than America.
I guess voice search is tailored for each language? Hence the lack of support. I know voice search initially supported only English, more languages were added later on. If your language is currently not supported, I guess that would be the reason why it's not available in your country.
Google voice search work pretty well in english and french-dutch-german (our 3 national langages)
Just tried every langage with amazing results.
I had the same issue with YouTube.apk. Market Enabler fixed it again for me, but I remember Google having removed the region-related conditions on app-purchasing... what's up with that?
Ok, I know this has been asked before for other phones.
But all three nav apps have made lots of changes and upgrades lately and they have a unique experience on Sensation.
I have a custom rom now (thanks S-OFF) and no navi app is installed.
I used the stock Google Nav and Telenav that came with the Tmobile Sensation stock.
Google works good, voice sucks. Yea, telenav lacks googlie features but for a navigation it works pretty well. Speaks exit names, factors in traffic data before route calculation and gui is crisp.
I only used both for a couple of days. So now my delima is to pick the best one and I cant decide. On the market Sygic has really good reviews.
I wanted to hear more from Sensation user whats their best experience. Thanks!
As long as ur in ur home country (not roaming data), I'd say Google. The voice-over isn't the best, but its never failed me yet and the incorporated Google search makes it great for finding places on the fly. Just my 2 cents
Google navigation, free, simple. Case closed
Go with Google nav.
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Google Nav, which, BTW, depending on your country will use traffic information as well.
If you are not roaming it's really hard to beat. Traffic aware, google search engine, it rocks
Google Nav works well for me...
Personally I've stuck with Google Nav. It works great for me, is reasonably accurate, and best of all it is completely free other than the bandwidth needed to run it.
mobileusman said:
Ok, I know this has been asked before for other phones.
But all three nav apps have made lots of changes and upgrades lately and they have a unique experience on Sensation.
I have a custom rom now (thanks S-OFF) and no navi app is installed.
I used the stock Google Nav and Telenav that came with the Tmobile Sensation stock.
Google works good, voice sucks. Yea, telenav lacks googlie features but for a navigation it works pretty well. Speaks exit names, factors in traffic data before route calculation and gui is crisp.
I only used both for a couple of days. So now my delima is to pick the best one and I cant decide. On the market Sygic has really good reviews.
I wanted to hear more from Sensation user whats their best experience. Thanks!
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I have tried them all, even the mapquest one and navigon usa.
As for the cheapest alternative, I'd say google nav second to telenav which I liked because you can pull up stuff like local gas stations and you can sort them by distance or prices, etc....
Now I have to recommend a voice TTS called Loquendo:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.loquendo.tts.susan&feature=search_result
Let me preface that it does cost money and is not free (IIRC ~6usd), but this voice to me, seems the most natural of all the tts I have used. It's by no means perfect, but it is nice and sound more natural rather than a voice prompt on the phone when you call in for your internet service..
I installed this, and made Loquendo TTS Susan the default voice engine on the phone. That's my .02c
google nav...
it's been dead on accurate for me. easy to use, great features, and it's free.
you get all the features without having to sign up for a premium.
Telenav charges for the same thing Google maps does for free. No brainer for me.
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Google Nav all the way!
As for the voice overs - get "Classic Text To Speech Engine" from SVOX off of the market and the SVOX voice in the language of your choosing. Works really great with Google Nav and sounds awesome.
google nav all the way!
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Kupfel said:
As for the voice overs - get "Classic Text To Speech Engine" from SVOX off of the market and the SVOX voice in the language of your choosing. Works really great with Google Nav and sounds awesome.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out
Navigon is the best offline navigation for Android.
I hope TomTom will release there app soon. And hope it's not 100euro or something crazy like that. I paid 29euro for Navigon and I am really really happy with it.
Navigon for offline maps or Google Nav if you have a good data plan
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If you choose to use Telenav, be prepared to pay an extra $10 a month.
Google Nav OK, but
Aside from terrible voice, Google Nav is OK. Starts fast, integrated, etc. But ... if you lose signal - you dead. Yes, it does cache entire route, but if you make wrong turn - you dead.
I went to NC mountains and thanks god I had Sygic Aura. I use it from time to time for offline. It does not have TTS for whatever reason, so it only speaks "Turn right in xxx feet".
I also tried iGo My Way ... great maps, but terrible UI on Android.
If you are in US, try Copilot it is only $5
And if you think that you want to contribute to something social/navigation, you can try WAZE, which is connected, and social, means that not every road is already on the map, but if you find a new one, you can add yourself the road and name it (it is like having his own street name sign but in the virtual world... ).
Of course many services such as trafic, road blocked, ... because you can contribute to this as others will be...
Just an idea...
See you and good choice.
I've found Sygic to be the best alternative to Google Navigation if you want offline maps.
Nevertheless Google Maps does the job, plus it's nice and lightweight. Though you might want to replace the default TTS engine with another one like SVOX unless you like the sound of Pico...
HTC navigation full subscription UK 22.99
Uses the same setup up as Tom Tom and is perfect for offline and online its very good
Am I understanding this correctly?
Google now is like a voice operated search engine, while s voice is more like a personal assistant.
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drbveb88 said:
Am I understanding this correctly?
Google now is like a voice operated search engine, while s voice is more like a personal assistant.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
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Google Now and the voice search on Jellybean are two different things to be honest, Google Now will push information to you like the weather or sports scores. If you're traveling it will also do currency exchange, local time, and some other things. The new voice search is mostly a voice operated search engine, you can ask it questions or commands (whos winning the Olympics, set an alarm, etc) but if you ask it questions like "what is your name" it will just do a search on the query rather than give you a response like s voice. Pretty much if it can't pull up a card with an answer to the question or execute a command it will just do a search instead.
drbveb88 said:
Am I understanding this correctly?
Google now is like a voice operated search engine, while s voice is more like a personal assistant.
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Yeah pretty much, though I hear S Voice is a piece of crap.
Google's voice commands are amazing on Jelly Bean, had it on my Nexus. Samsung should ditch S voice and just go with Google for 4.1, it's that good.
fillyo said:
Google's voice commands are amazing on Jelly Bean, had it on my Nexus. Samsung should ditch S voice and just go with Google for 4.1, it's that good.
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I am running Synergy 1.4 which has Google Now baked in. Far better than S-Voice. If you allow web history when you sign into your google account. It will post cards based on your web searches. Even showing more cards when just showing the weather it showed the times of the next buses that would come by. Not that I use them all the time but great none the less. S-Voice can't compare to that.
fillyo said:
Google's voice commands are amazing on Jelly Bean, had it on my Nexus. Samsung should ditch S voice and just go with Google for 4.1, it's that good.
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100% agree, I am glad I flashed cm10 was definitely worth the risk.
Google Now
Google Now is so much better than S-Voice. It can understand my voice so much better, almost never makes mistakes in the field of voice recognition. S-Voice thinks it knows what you are saying, and screws it up royally or just drags you into a stupid conversation.
Google Now goes straight to Google search with more things a lot faster than S-Voice does.
I've been using it for voice dialing, settings events in my calendar and settings timers and alarms with no problem whatsoever.
"Set a timer for 20 minutes" Google Now sets an alarm for the current time + 20 minutes.
cbrehob said:
Google Now is so much better than S-Voice. It can understand my voice so much better, almost never makes mistakes in the field of voice recognition. S-Voice thinks it knows what you are saying, and screws it up royally or just drags you into a stupid conversation.
Google Now goes straight to Google search with more things a lot faster than S-Voice does.
I've been using it for voice dialing, settings events in my calendar and settings timers and alarms with no problem whatsoever.
"Set a timer for 20 minutes" Google Now sets an alarm for the current time + 20 minutes.
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Google Now is decidedly different from Voice Search or Voice Actions.
As a test, go into settings and toggle the off switch for Now, then try doing those things you mentioned.
I'm curious if google changed things recently. Downloaded the tts I had on my old android phone and I find that no matter what, Google maps/nav will only play in the default voice, even if it's not that good. I prefer to use Ivona.
Any feedback?
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Check out this thread, it might not completely answer your question but it should point you in the right direction.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2218525
I have the problem that Google Maps doesn't use the selected TTS engine (SVOX Classic or Ivona) even if it has the same language as the global phone language specified in the system settings.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks
I ran into a problem with the recent update to the Google Text-To-Speech app.
I was testing out and trying to decide between the new high quality US and UK English voices. Somehow my default language for speech got locked into UK English: I can no longer change it to anything else, even though my default device language is US English and I have downloaded both the low and high quality US English voices.
See my screenshots - despite me changing my chosen language to US English in the Google Text-to-speech Engine settings in the 1st screenshot, once I hit the back button (or exit via the home / recent apps buttons), my default language reverts to UK English as per the 2nd screenshot.
Is there any system file I can edit to change this absurd behaviour? I'm rooted and willing to get my hands dirty...
UPDATE:
I played around with settings and managed to resolve the problem.
Clearing data from / un- and re-installing the app / restoring data from another device didn't work - what did work was choosing another default device language (NOT the voice language under Text-to-speech output). This somehow released the "lock" on UK speech and allowed me to choose US instead. I then reverted the default device language to US English.
All is now good in the world :victory:
Trying going to Google Text-to-speech or Google TTS, whichever one it is, in the app settings and clear data.
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Lethargy said:
Trying going to Google Text-to-speech or Google TTS, whichever one it is, in the app settings and clear data.
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That was one of the first things I tried, but it didn't help.
Anyway I managed to resolve the problem already. Gonna update the OP.
mlj11 said:
That was one of the first things I tried, but it didn't help.
Anyway I managed to resolve the problem already. Gonna update the OP.
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At least you got it worked out.
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