Has anyone had any luck with changing the TTS engine on their nook color? The new version of ezpdf has a TTS option but it uses the stock pico engine and is difficult (at best) to listen to. I am wondering if anyone has tried SVOX? I currently can't find the settings to change any TTS settings.
I have tried the extended TTS app with no luck (atleast not with ezpdf, haven't tried any other apps).
Let me know if anyone has had any luck, if not I will give it a try myself and report back.
I am glad you asked this question as I am curious as well..
I saw the feature also in EZPDF and wanted to try it but it did not work.
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Hi All,
Loving my Hero, got over 420 apps installed and it's still running as fast as anything!!!
This phone is truly amazing, came from the G1 and it's in a different class.
Anyway I have noticed when trying to use a few voice apps I get the message:
Voice recognizer not present
I have looked for an answer on the forums but can't seem to find one.
I'm on Modaco 2.8, has anyone else got the same issue?
I'm wondering if it is down to the rom or my phone.
I've tried re-flashing the rom but it didn't help.
JJ
I've got the same problem with my htc dream. I think there's some sort of voice library missing because I don't have the voice search functionality in my search widget either.
There's a message in de android-developers mailing list that the voice recognition has been removed from uk releases of hero/dream.
How to Fix!
Install Voice Seach (by google) in the market to fix this issue. It contains the required Voice Recognizer and should get everything working! My Microphone button even showed back up in the keyboard after installing!
The app is not available in many countries, so here you can download the lastest version (v2.1.4) http://www.mediafire.com/?r9b47dcirtt8m98 and flash it from the Recovery.
(found it at MoDaCo)
I installed Google Voice Search v 2.1.1 on my fresh new wildpuzzle rom.
Now, as much as I try, it doesn't recognize my voice. Even though my accent (Indian) is not that bad....still???
I heard about personalized voice from Google, but couldn't find that option in settings. Is it available only in US?
Any suggestions (apart from practicing US accent) is welcome!
bobzx said:
I installed Google Voice Search v 2.1.1 on my fresh new wildpuzzle rom.
Now, as much as I try, it doesn't recognize my voice. Even though my accent (Indian) is not that bad....still???
I heard about personalized voice from Google, but couldn't find that option in settings. Is it available only in US?
Any suggestions (apart from practicing US accent) is welcome!
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I have an English (non US English) accent and it seems to work for me.
I'm not certain about search but for voice actions you must change your language setting to 'English (generic)' from English (***). The setting can be found under Voice input and output settings> voice recogniser settings> select English (generic)
Give it a try and lets hear about the results.
Is there a comparison somewhere, or someone knowledgeable on the subject that can help me out. Is there a reason to pick one over the other? This stems from when I use speaktoit assistant it prompts me to know whether I want to use Pico or Samsung. Thanks!
Just try them out and pick the one you like.
You can always change this in setting-->voice input and output
Personally I prefer Pico than Samsung, sounds a bit more natural.
You can also buy Loquendo TTS from the Market, which is much better than these two.
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Is there a comparison somewhere, or someone knowledgeable on the subject that can help me out. Is there a reason to pick one over the other? This stems from when I use speaktoit assistant it prompts me to know whether I want to use Pico or Samsung. Thanks!
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Be aware, Samsung tts messes up Google navigation voice badly
I have been using IVONA and have been more than pleased at the natural sound of this TTS engine.
I use svox classic myself
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using Tapatalk
exactly, I repeat: Samsung TTS messes up the google navigation voice badly.
took me a while to realize it is the samsung TTS caused the google navigation starts reading the programming code: http://www....
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Be aware, Samsung tts messes up Google navigation voice badly
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Hi,
I have just got a Samsung Galaxy S 5.0 UK YP-G70 model with 2.2.2 Froyo.
I purchased a SVOX voice from the market and tried to enable the SVOX classic tts engine but the tick box is greyed out. Installing IVONA TTS has the same issue. Unable to enable the engine so cannot make it the default engine.
So can somebody else confirm that only the PICO TTS engine is usable on 2.2.2.
Can anybody who has flashed to 2.3.x confirm or deny they can use alternative text to speech engines.
Anybody who has rooted confirm other engines in use.
Any help would be much appreciated as it was purchased for use by my father in law who is losing his ability to speak. If it is confirmed that Samsung have broken something then it will be going back to the store for a refund .
Cheers
Phil
No, loquendo tts works like a charm on my g70 with gingerbread (I'm pretty sure it works on froyo too)
Updated to 2.3.5 Gingerbread and was able to enable other TTS engines. Other people seemed to be reporting 2.2.2 issues with TTS.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
Hi all, some time ago i switched using search site google , and am using duckduckgo.com
for several reasons that i am not going into now, but if you need to know you can read on:
http://donttrack.us/
&
http://dontbubble.us/
i am now happy to be able to use a native app from duckduckgo, that i found on the market, however the android builtin browser still doesn't give me any option to choose from another search engine then only the searchengines programed into the browser.apk
some guy has found a trick and rebuild the browser app,
and added DDG to the search-engines list.
http://hoelz.ro/blog/adding-duckduckgo-as-an-android-browser-search-engine
is anyone here savvy enough to do the same for a DEFY+ BL7
(Defy+ 4.5.1-134_DFP-231) rooted phone.
meaning: rebuilding the browser app, with duckduckgo added as default search engine option... ?
specifically for this rom supplied at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1595013
thanks for any help.