I use text to speech to remind me of my appointments in my Calendar Snooze app. It'll say things like "upcoming event.. meet friend, starting in 20 minutes" then repeat it a few times until I dismiss it.
Anyone know how I can get the UK female voice back for text to speech that I had on gingerbread before I updated to android 4.0.3 ICS? It's a dreary voice but one I got used to. I'm pretty sure it's the same voice that I'm still getting in Google satnav. If I could get the satnav voice into text to speech it would be great.
In language and input under text to speech output, I can choose either Google text to speech or Samsung TTS to read out my text. Google has one american female who sounds more phillipino and one english male whose voice sounds shaky. And in Samsung TTS, there's just one english voice, another female who sounds phillipino. Is that all the options I have for text to speech voices, have they taken away the voice I used to have? I read about Ivona text to speech on android market to add more voices but it says it's incompatible with my device so I didn't download it.
Yes I did post this in Q&A yesterday and it's now on page 5 with no replies, so I thought I'd try in here. Hope you don't mind.
So is this really difficult to answer? xdadevelopers, the forum that is first in all things android can't answer a basic question about text to speech? Honestly, what is the world coming to
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I am looking for an app that would enable me to dial contacts or do actions on my Android phone by voice. The standard Android voice recognition is unacceptable because I am not from an English speaking country.
My old phone had this feature where I could record a "voice command" for any of my contacts and only those would be considered when voice dialing. This also enabled for much more variance in speaking so I suppose it would be helpful for English speaking users too.
Is there any app that would provide this functionality? Or is somebody working on one?
I am in a similar situation, a number of my family have non-English names and Android cannot recognise them. I've looked everywhere and cannot find one either. Everyone seems to rely on voice recognition which is, frankly, crap for anything remotely non-standard in language.
You can use Voice Speed Dial by Cyberon Corp, it's very good
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it will be great if such an app exists.
let me now if you find one
is there a development/process/information about this thread?
To make the Android voice recognition work, go to Settings>Voice Input & Output>Language>English (US). You'll be able to use all the voice commands. I don't know how well voice dialing will work for you though. It works for me many times with Indian names, but also fails a lot. Try Vlingo too, it might work better.
Vlingo - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlingo.client&hl=en
I'm using Google voice exclusively for text messaging. Right now the only way to send/receive texts is to use the google voice app, but I would like to do that through the native message app. Is it possible?
Have the texts forwarded to your phone number? Or are you trying to avoid texting costs?
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Or are you trying to avoid texting costs?
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This exactly. Sorry for missing info
A little bump will help I hope?
I will bump this thread..... but only kind of... let me explain
I would like to have a dedicated messaging app for Google Voice texting, but I would LOVE is to have an Android Google Voice app with tabs/menus.
The GV Mobile + app for iPhone is far superior to the native Android Google Voice application, it hurts.... I just hate opening Google Voice and seeing every single text, voicemail, missed call, etc. An intuitive menu bar for Calls/Dialer, Texts, Call History, Voicemail would be a dream come true.
It's not possible currently. Perhaps, one day Google will read this post and implement it.
Switch to Sprint. We get our texts via messaging app and not the Google Voice app! It is quite nice.
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Ok I have really 2 questions.
1: for text to speech engines I have 3 options... Google, pico tts, or samsung tts. Which one is the most accurate?
2: for voice recognition I have Samsung powered by vlingo or google.... Which one is the most accurate?
I just invested good money on a bluetooth headset because I was in 2 minor fender benders while playing with my phone and i just know I'm gonna end up really hurting someone. But.... I can't seem to get the bluetooth to read my text messages to me or dictate my speech into a text message or email. And I'm also unable to get google now to recognize my speech by way of the multifunction button on the bluetooth. So for instance I can't push the button and say "call mom".
I'm blundering my way through setting for all this and I'm trying to get it to work right but i need some help.
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can someone recommend a good speech to text app for texting
Try searching in the Google Play Sore. Also with S-Voice allows you to do speech to text aswell as Google Now
Hope this helps
Using Enhanced SMS and Caller ID with a Jawbone Era, I can't get the voice reply for SMS to work. Whenever I get an SMS and try to voice reply, it launches a Google voice recognition applet which I presume is part of the Google search app. Based on a little digging around the internet, it seems that Google Search on 4.1.1 is the issue ...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35737
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2123731
Does anyone know if this was fixed on later OS's?
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