I'm a big fan of the voice command features, speech>SMS, email, search, etc...
Constantly pushing the "mic" button on my keypad and talking into the phone mic just isn't user friendly enough while driving.
I can't get anything other than voice dialing to work with a bluetooth headset.
My BT set is a cheapie, I'll gladly buy a new one providing this is the issue.
I don't care about it reading email or txt's back to me, I have to be able to say "txt/email so&so, blah blah blah" and have it do that via BT.
Anyone?
Thanks,
i dont think u can do all the voice commands on BT cuz i just got a pair of sony dr-bt101 and same thing
I agree with rptw I dont think its possible. I connect my phone to my car stereo via bluetooth and cannot use the voice commands it would be awesome if I could thou so hopefully someone has a solution.
Voice commands over bluetooth work with Vlingo.
Vlingo is the greatest app (imho) for the streak! I use it for everything!
It's available on the market
+1 Vlingo, works perfect
Been using VLINGO, it's awesome. Works fine on 1.8.1 too.
Vlingo has 1 fatal flaw
After using Vlingo once, if you move out of range of your phone, then Vlingo
will cause your phone to reboot.
See link below of this problem:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9503
Vlingo is great, works fantastic, thanks for the tip.
However I've noticed that my headset doesn't stay active long enough to complete my task. EI: push the BT button, say "txt so&so", wait for Vlingo to respond -headset stops listening-
Push the button again, say content of the message, wait for "thinking" -headset stops listening-
Push the button again, say send...
Is this consistent with any other Vlingo users headsets?
Thanks.
Blueant Q1 or Q2 works well with streak on voice commands
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I'm running DL09 Super Clean 0.4/EB01 2.4 on a Fascinate. Kernel is EB01-based Voodoo.
I took the plunge and got a Motorola Roadster bluetooth car kit, preferring a car kit to an earpiece. With my Froyo based Fascinate, I was eagerly anticipating voice dial, etc. No such luck.
Car kit pairs and requests phone book access. Grant privilege (always). Great!
But... Car kit does not announce caller name, even though it is a contact in the phone. Seems like although the rights are granted for PBA, the request for an phone book entry by the car kit fails.
Also, no bluetooth voice dial
Pressing the command button on the car kit returns and annoying "not supported by phone" message.
Is the BT stack still under development, or do I need to configure something? (seems unlikely).
Thank you in anticipation.
I don't know anything about phone book access, but to use voice dialing on Super Clean, you need to flash the Nuance zip in that thread. Nuance is the stock app that handles bluetooth voice dialing.
Thank you for the tip. Installed Nuance. Useless. My accent is South African / Oz / USA. Voice commands deliver some interesting response. Even after adaptation, recognition (in a quite environment) is no better than 10%. Too bad.
And just a heads up...post questions in the General section
I pulled out my bt headset the other day and was disappointed to discover the same thing. I agree that Nuance is trash (and is why my bt has been in storage for a while). I haven't done so yet, but have you tried Vlingo?
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Installed Vlingo and have been using it for a few days. Recognition is great, but does not cut media sound when waiting for command and does not handle car noise well. Maybe my car more noisy than average... I'm going to keep it and watch for updates.
In my opinion there is most definitely an issue with the Bluetooth stack in EB01. I just had a head unit installed in my car that is capable of streaming music and phone calls. Whenever I make or receive a call through the unit, it force closes upon hanging up, with both devices indicating they still have a connection (and they definitely do not). I have to power down the stereo and turn bluetooth off and back on the phone.
It is extremely aggravating. I feel like this phone has been one huge repeat of "one step forward, two steps back".
I love Froyo except this bluetooth issue is a major disappointment. That, and I've tried everything posted and still have lousy battery compared to DL09. But that's another thread.
Anyone know if this is any better in ED01? Im running SC2.9.2 and see no reason to go back to stock or even an ED01 ROM -- unless the BT voice dial is working...
I purchased a Motorola TZ700 Roadster and paired it up with my Atrix. Pressed the Voice Dial button and it works.
Did it a few times and everything seems ok..
Then the Atrix screen goes blank (I have it set for two minutes)
If I hit the voice dial button on the roadster while the phone is 'asleep' the roadster beeps twice and I do not get a "say command" prompt.
If I unlock the phone and hit the roadsters voice dial it works.
Seems to only have a problem when the phone is asleep.
I then tried to play music over the roadster while the phone was asleep and it plays no problem.
Has anyone else come accross this? any solutions? Ideas?
Is this normal for a android phone?
Thanks,
Pete
Try freezing viingo. Worked for me.
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Bluetooth voice dial
On my ATRIX and I believe all Android phones from Motorola if you have a password set bluetooth will not work to start voice command unless the phone is plugged in to a charger. I know my ATRIX will not start voice command unless I unlock the phone. Not good as I can't have a password and bluetooth voice dial, not happy.
hope this helps
MTWIZARD
Thanks for the replys.. Freezing vlingo didn't resolve it.
I'll guess I'll have to live with it and plug it in when I get in the car..
Appreciate the reply.. thought I was going nuts...
Pete
On the Atrix just having the screen off (no password set), bluetooth voice commands will not work. The funny thing is I can even hear the phone beaping but the headset does not beap back to take a voice command. Using all Plantronics headsets.
Does anyone have a headset that this does not happen and you can BT voice command with the screen off?
Bluetooth voice dial
I use a Motorola S605, EQ5, Finiti, Oasis and H15 they all work for voice commands with screen off. I did not have good luck with the S10-HD. Check your settings for bluetooth and I very strongly suggest you install MotoSpeak. In MotoSpeak under Settings Enable Voice Commands and Enable Listen. MotoSpeak is an amazing program!
Hope this helps,
MTWIZARD
I use a plantronics headset that works with voice dial as long as no pin/finger print security is enabled
There is a setting under "Security" that will enable voice dialing when the phone is locked
So I feel like this should be something pretty simple. I'm trying to use voice command with the bluetooth in a VW, but when I activiate bluetooth in the car it dosen't automatically allow for voice commands. Can still use the phone, but it would be nice to be able to use voice command without having to log into the phone. I've tried turning on driving mode and that doesnt' seem to work.
Any advice?
i dont think you can activate the 'voice commands' option from the VW bluetooth. I have a VW Golf and I can only make and receive calls from the car's BT system. If I want access to anything else, I need to use the phone itself.
Yeah, that's exactly the issue I'm having. Would think that you could also use voice commands. It worked fine with the iphone, but doesn't seem to like the galaxy for whatever reason.
While you can still use the VW's built in voice commands (to dial numbers, etc.), I don't believe you can use the car's mic/speaker for the phone's voice command functionality. Since it's just an app, it can't integrate into the car's systems. You can however stream music to the car's audio system via bluetooth.
Does your VW stereo have a button that you push to initiate the voice command application? I had this problem on my Subaru as well. It wasn't launching the application that listens for voice commands when pressing the button. I installed an app called Choice Dialer (Which is actually now Hands-Free Voice Dialer) and it started working.
I'd give this a try and report back if it works.
Thanks for the responses. It actually ended up being something pretty stupid. Pretty sure it's still using the built-in BT, but it takes care of what I was trying to solve.
For whatever reason the first time it requested access to my address book ti apparently didn't work. If someone else has the problem what you need to do is make sure your phone and bluetooth are connected. While connected, open your notification screen, it will probably say there are no att notification, hit that, then it will show a request by your VW bluetooth to your address book. Accept it and now you can use the 'call whoever on mobile' functionality.
Glad you got it figured out. Having half-*** handsfree is a big step backwards after being able to throw voice commands out.
I've been on a hunt for a voice command app that works well with bluetooth headsets.
I wish that Google's Voice Actions would work with a bluetooth headset, but instead I get the Voice Dialer app every time I want to activate voice command.
So far what I've found to be the closest to what I'd want is Sonalight, but it attaches an annoying link at the end of your SMS messages unless you pay them. Fail.
Does anyone know of a good voice command app that can be activated by your bluetooth headset that will respond and do things like send messages, map locations, and call people? Similar if not identical to Google's own built-in one but that would actually work without me having to activate it from my phone?
Try Jeannie in the market. Works excellent with my Bluetooth.
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Ok, I took the advice of using a 3rd Party App for Bluetooth Dialing from the Bug on Jelly Bean.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35199&q=bluetooth voice dial&colspec=ID
First I Tried EVA. Which was very nice but it would only work ONCE per boot. 2nd Time it would prompt on the handset when I clicked the Bluetooth button.
Then I tried Cyberon Voice Commander. This works perfectly. But I can't get the Default to Stick across reboots. Every time I reboot I get "Complete Action Using" list. It works PERFECT after that and does not require the Network and does confirmation. There is no trial you have to buy and you have 12 minutes to test it. I think we should start a petition against Google on that. You should have 24 hrs to evaluate.
If I uninstalled Google Search I can get it to Cyberon to Stick (because it's the only choice on Bluetooth and does not prompt at all). But if you do that you lose Voice initiated Navigation which I use all the time. Google Voice Dial also works fine on the handset.
Some folks suggested Slingo, but I hate trying yet another app.
I've tried suggestions of repairing headset I even tied a full wipe.
I'm on MeanBean 1.1 but I doubt that has anything to do with it.
One way to fix it is, I believe, there must be a way to take Bluetooth Voice Dial out of Google Searches "capabilities" manifest. So that Cyberon is the only app for Bluetooth.
It was actually Vlingo not Slingo that someone suggested.
It appears Dragon Speech Folks acquired them or something.
Any way Dragon Mobile Assistant (Beta) and is free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuance.balerion&hl=en
It so far is working excellent !!
Never mind Dragon is "Broken" over Bluetooth too.
It doesn't actually switch to the Headset MIC.
It has amazing recognition and still a very nice app.
But if the phone is in my pocket in the Car it's not gonna work which is what I'm trying to fix.
I covered the Mic's to test it over Bluetooth and got Nuttin.
Grrrr.
Back to Cyberon which is the closest to working.
Fixed and works
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35954424#post35954424
Did you try AVX (Android Voice Xtreme)? Works very well....
mswlogo said:
Never mind Dragon is "Broken" over Bluetooth too.
It doesn't actually switch to the Headset MIC.
It has amazing recognition and still a very nice app.
But if the phone is in my pocket in the Car it's not gonna work which is what I'm trying to fix.
I covered the Mic's to test it over Bluetooth and got Nuttin.
Grrrr.
Back to Cyberon which is the closest to working.
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lostsoul77 said:
Did you try AVX (Android Voice Xtreme)? Works very well....
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Yes, are you using it on a Bluetooth Headset?
Quick question what is the issue? I am on MeanBean 1.3 and I have no issues with my bluetooth headset(s) or my car radio.
copc said:
Quick question what is the issue? I am on MeanBean 1.3 and I have no issues with my bluetooth headset(s) or my car radio.
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Read the Google Bug in the OP.
Also read a post I made a few replies up to a work around to get Cyberon to work even better.
Bluetooth VOICE dial over headset cannot find contacts.
Cars do their own voice regonition to their own uploaded contacts.
Once a call is established the Bluetooth headset works fine. Or if a call comes in.
The Handset Voice Dial also works fine.
It's broken on all phones that are on 4.1.X JB. It's said to be fixed in 4.2.X
You can fool yourself into thinking that it works if say you only call your Favorites (because I think it prioritizes those).
It will also work if I Clear Caches for a few minutes. It's like it builds a bogus regonition cache for the headset.
If you only have a dozen contacts it might work.
I have 400 Contacts. It can find my wife every time, but not a single other contact works.
ICS Google Search worked fine.
There are almost 200 replies to the bug on Google all kinds of devices.
It was also broken on ICS ROMs that added Google Now from JB 4.1.