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Google Maps Heading Based on Compass

Hello everyone!
Ever since my Hero (now on an Evo 4G), I have noticed that the Google Maps on Android (running 4.2.0) is missing a feature the iPhone version has: rotate the map based on the compass heading. On the iPhone there is a little button (similar to the "My Location" button if you enable it from the Labs menu) that enables this feature.
Anyone know if we'll ever see that for our Android versions? Would be quite useful (albeit the compass arrow is still okay).

[Q] changing pico tts on genius button?

Hi guys, I am running cm7 nightly build #30 with trueblue_drew's genius button mod, I have installed victoria UK english tts and svox classic engine and set is as default, so even google maps works with her voice (it's really sexy ) but thing is genius button is still on pico tts and pico tts is by far the most annoying speech synthesis voice EVER. (Never used the genius button when I was in stock rom because of this reason). Is there anyway to over ride the pico tts settings for the genius button?
(btw I tried removing picotts.apk from system using root explorer, my settings voice input and output settings would crash I had to reflash the rom)

[Q] Google Maps: No other TTS engine possible

I have a problem together with Google Maps 7.1.0 navigation (on a Nexus 4 with Android 4.3) . It doesn't use SVOX TTS but every other application does. I have set SVOX Classics as the default engine in the system settings and it has the same language installed as I have set for the phone language.
How can I fix that?
Thanks in advance.

same problem
Same problem...4.3 android with svox and same language as svox in settings.

[Guide] [TW] [S Voice] Enabling Different Languages and Get Rid of the Robotic TTS

First of all, you must have a rooted phone. Don't ask how here.
Install Wanam's Language Enabler:
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wanam&hl=en
Launch the app and select the languages you plan to use.
I selected English (US) [as a safe fallback] and English (UK) to replace the horribly robotic sounding English (US) TTS.​
Launch S Voice > Menu > Settings > Language > Choose your language!
Additionally, you may download high quality TTS voice packs for different languages. To do so...​
Launch Settings > My Device > Language and input > Text-to-speech options > Click Samsung text-to-speech "gear icon" > Install voice data > Pick one!
They are a bit large; English (UK) is ~117 megabytes, but it was worth it.​
I was struggling to find an answer for hours yesterday, and thanks to Wanam, S Voice doesn't sound horrible now.

This is for the Gear 2???

Binary100100 said:
This is for the Gear 2???
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This is not enabling "any" language. It only enables languages that Samsung has released in its rom.

Google Assistant on ANY language (barely)

Im using my phone with hungarian primary and english secondary language (Xiaomi Mi A1 Android 8.0.0 not rooted) and Google Now main language is us english adn secondary is hungarian. Recently i donwloaded te original Pixel 2 launcher form apkmirror and i installed and set it as my main launcher after that is launched weather with the widget added the shortcut then i reset launcher 3 for ma main launcher.
After all of these i am abel to use Google Assistant with US English lanugage even if my phones main language is hungarian. After a few hours later it becomes unavailable but if i do the same steps with the pixel launcher and weather it becomes available.
Every time when I launch weather with that shortcut the Assistant gets available for a short time.
Now it seems its just a bug but i really hope that it will be available soon with english on any phone lanuage. It woul be really nice.
(The assistant works as well as with english primary phone laungage.)