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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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?
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
Hello,
i've got a very annoying problem in Chrome on my Nexus 4 (posting this here, as it should be the same for the Nexus 5). I've changed my phone language settings to Spanish a few months ago, but didn't like that Chrome was sending this information to every page, resulting in Spanish google results and so on. So i changed the system language back to English. However, Chrome is still apparently sending the information to display the Spanish version of every page i'm visiting. It's very annoying and it's been months since i've changed it back to English, and it's still doing this.
Any idea how i can fix this?
EDIT - short version: The browser itself is English, but it's requesting the Spanish version of websites - even though system language is set to English.
Does nobody have an idea how i can fix this?
Clear Chrome's data or factory reset the phone
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Clear google chrome data/cache and reconnect your Google account with chrome.. If it's still Spanish then check whether the Google account you have connected has Spanish set in it's settings?!
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Uninstall chrome and reinstall chrome beta, while your at it, click on settings and bandwidth you can save 33%through compression etc. I'm lucky to be on 3 UK but those who are not it's a good saving
From my mobile telephony device.
Thanks, deleting the data actually worked!
Firstly, I have to say that this issue might only relate to Chinese-Simplified users, so if you do not want to spend your time on this, you may just skip it.
The phenomenon description:
The device is Nexus 5 32 GB UNROOTED (never rooted).
>set language as Chinese Simplified, and the Google Search bar (the Google Now entry) will not work. Input the key words and I can only get a whirling circle.
> Change the system language to Chinese Traditional or English (US/UK, etc), search via the Google search bar again, and it instantly works.
> Change the language back to Chinese Simplified and the Google search bar will be workable in the next ~1 day. After about 24 hours, I have to change the system language to activate the Google search bar again. I have "solved" this kind of issues for many times, but you know that this is not a "solution". Anybody know the reason for this phenomenon?
Additional information:
* This issue should not be related to the network condition because the Google search bar work immediately after changing the language.
** This issue only happened on my Nexus 5 but never on the *nexus 4*. My nexus 4 is always in the Chinese Simplified language condition and the Google search bar works well.
*** Switching the system language will also affect the Google maps cache. After changing (and changing back), the Google maps app will say that the cached maps have expired (in fact it was just cached hours ago).
So, is this a bug only on nexus 5? Is there a way to completely solve the problem and make the search bar work just like it on the nexus 4?
Thank you guys.
I'm not a COMPLETE nub (although this may be something easy to fix, I'm just not sure how to, if at all.)
- Google Now version: 3.5.15
- Google Play Servces: 5.0.x
Cleared data for the Google search, not quite to google now launcher, although I'll try that now.
Restarted the device.
The Ok google hotword is still there, however, the extra settings are not there, almost like it's registering that I never updated it.
Could this be a custom ROM issue?
nyte3k said:
I'm not a COMPLETE nub (although this may be something easy to fix, I'm just not sure how to, if at all.)
- Google Now version: 3.5.15
- Google Play Servces: 5.0.x
Cleared data for the Google search, not quite to google now launcher, although I'll try that now.
Restarted the device.
The Ok google hotword is still there, however, the extra settings are not there, almost like it's registering that I never updated it.
Could this be a custom ROM issue?
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Is your language English (US)? For me the extra options were grayed out until I changed the language to English (US).
from what I've read, its a server side option that Google needs to activate on your account
Thank you for input.
dntevnlft said:
Is your language English (US)? For me the extra options were grayed out until I changed the language to English (US).
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Yeah, I ensured that as well. Thank you for your input though
gsrrr said:
from what I've read, its a server side option that Google needs to activate on your account
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hmmm, I wonder why they would push the update to my phone but not update my account. CURSE YOU GOOGLE
nyte3k said:
hmmm, I wonder why they would push the update to my phone but not update my account. CURSE YOU GOOGLE
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I wonder the same thing but you can force it if you want it now.
http://nexus5.wonderhowto.com/how-to...itkat-0155963/
Resolved.
gsrrr said:
I wonder the same thing but you can force it if you want it now.
http://nexus5.wonderhowto.com/how-to...itkat-0155963/
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i think that you were right in regards to the server-side switch.
It magically showed up yesterday when I stopped checking it every 2-3 mins at about 9:30p or so.
-shrug-
No rhyme or reason to the flag on the account I guess...?