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[Resolved] Help! Weird problem with text-to-speech setting

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.
Sent from my Nexus 5

Lethargy said:
Trying going to Google Text-to-speech or Google TTS, whichever one it is, in the app settings and clear data.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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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.
Sent from my Nexus 5

[6.0] Google Now on tap not working

Hi,
I just flashed the nexus 5 official image for android 6.0; I have used adb and fastboot and I flashed everything but the userdata.img (as I did with all previous updates). Everything looks fine with the exception of google now on tap: if I long press the home "button" it only takes me to the regular google now page. The google app is version 5.3 (which is supposed to enable on tap), I tried both google now launcher and nova, but the result is always the same, standard google now page with no content relevant to the page/app I was in.
Is it expected ? do i have to enable it somehow ?
thanks
bye
Enrico

It only works with system language set to English. You then have to enable it under Settings - Google - Search and Now. You'll find a toggle there for Now On Tap, which isn't there with the system language set to anything other than English.
I posted about it on r/Nexus5 this morning, too.

Thanks, that worked.
Too bad on tap is not available for all other languages ...
bye
Enrico

Google Now On Tap doesn't work if you have it set on your Google Apps account. If you use/switch to your gmail account (and set it on english language) the feature does work. Hopefully this feature is made available to those of us on google apps account soon! The on tap feature is pretty neat.

The point is that the limitations on languages and accounts are not exactly advertised; either they are going to be fixed soon or google is hiding them behind the carpet ...

My system language is set to English (US), but the now on tap toggle goes back to off as soon as I press on Get Started.

mine does the same, I'm on US English but the now on tap toggle goes back to off as soon as I press on Get Started.

Has anybody got Assistant yet?

Google rolled out assistant for Android 6+ in March, but here in India, I still haven't got it. I tried methods of updating my Google as well as Play Services App to Beta versions, clearing data and cache and setting language to English US as well. Has anybody got the assistant via any method on Android 6? Please let me know.

jfreak27 said:
Google rolled out assistant for Android 6+ in March, but here in India, I still haven't got it. I tried methods of updating my Google as well as Play Services App to Beta versions, clearing data and cache and setting language to English US as well. Has anybody got the assistant via any method on Android 6? Please let me know.
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You can enable the Google Assistant without rooting the device:
instruction:
First of all select the language as English(US) which u have already done
second one is register for beta for google play services and if any updates for google play services (beta) update it and if u r not able to find the google play services on Play Store ... just google it and tap on result and scroll down u will find an option for beta tester click on and u will be register for beta updates
Third one is register again for google beta services and install the beta updates
After all these steps .... Run the google app from Home screen ... dont swipe ok
wait for 2 minutes and then long press the Home Button and BOOOOOOM :good: u have enabled the Google assistant on ur devices without rooting:good:
And to revert back to google now change the langauge prefernce to english(India)
or U can also visit this link https://beebom.com/how-enable-google-assistant-any-android-no-root/ for clear understanding ...

I really don't understand the nee to change language to English (US). If the "Ok Google" features works perfectly with English(India), Why won't google assistant work

Pixel Call Screening Now Works on Stock Moto Z3 Play

If any of you have read the recent headlines on XDA about how to enable RCS on the Google messages app, I recently did that as I'm on Cricket Wireless, (Unlocked Moto Z3 Play 64gb) which originally didn't support the chat features or RCS in the messages app, however after I followed the steps, it worked like a charm, however to my (pleasant) surprise, I looked in the Google dialer apps Settings today, and found the "Call Screening" option was now available... I thought it might be just a side effect of enabling RCS, so I had a few ppl call me, and to my surprise, Call Screening now FULLY works!

pretty cool

I don't see that option on mine ..

@bdizzle1686 please tell us how did you enable this feature ? Give us steps.

ajaikumarnadar said:
@bdizzle1686 please tell us how did you enable this feature ? Give us steps.
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Actually, I didn't do any steps.. installed normal Google dialer from play store (beta version) , and it just works. Appeared in setting of phone app, chose voice, watched demo, and it works on every incoming call. Works on my new Moto G7 as well..
(Dropped and shattered the screen on my Z3 play for the THIRD TIME in 6 months)
The only thing that I've done that may have contributed to this working, is I've installed a few Google Pixel related apk's, (modded Pixel launcher, Pixel launcher Icons, all Pixel wallpaper ports, Pixel camera, Pixel Visual Core, Device Configuration - android.autoinstalls.config.google.nexus) etc.
As I stated before, this has now worked fully for me on both my Unlocked Moto Z³ Play, and my Unlocked Moto G7, both NOT rooted, NO magisk, NO unlocked bootloader, On cricket wireless as my carrier.. I'm thinking the Device Configuration apk (android.autoinstalls.config.google.nexus) is what may have helped in activating this on the Google Dialer BETA version..

Thanks.. ?
But this config APK didn't help in this pixel call screening...
Maybe it's somewhat restricted to US.

ajaikumarnadar said:
Thanks.. ?
But this config APK didn't help in this pixel call screening...
Maybe it's somewhat restricted to US.
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Yeah, that's definitely possible, as I live just about a half an hour drive north of Detroit, Michigan...

As you can see, like I originally said, I don't really think I did any specific steps to enable this, Google just started rolling the feature out to certain specific non-pixel devices...
Call screening just suddenly appeared and started working one day, on both my Z³ Play, and my G⁷...

Question How to turn on google TTS on Huawei phone?

Hello, is there any way to use Google voice typing service on a Huawei phone? I install through Gspace and Playstore the Google voice services, but in the voice typing menu of the phone I have no option to select them, only the Huawei engine is visible and it is selected by default with only 1 radio button. I'm testing with a Nova 9 SE phone, but I guess it's the same for all models...

Thank you for the answer. The problem is that my native language is not supported by Huawei voice typing...

Can you give me a link with more information on how to do "sideloading"?

Thank you!