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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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
Hello,
I'm not doing well with the integrated voice dialer. It is nice that it is free but not very accurate ( have about 400 contacts and often it just tries to dial stuff on in my contacts). I also get frustrated it dials the wrong number without verification that it has the right number.
The MS command was very accurate. It might seem crazy but if that is made by a third party, do they make a droid version? I'm very new to android so I appreciate the info.
Try Vlingo. I find that it is generally more accurate than the free google voice recognition.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlingo.client
+1 for vlingo. I feel the same way about MS Voice Command, in comparison to the stock voice search on android.
Thanks - I just tried VLINGO - maybe I don't have it set up properly. I want something just MS Voice command where I press the button on my headset and it I say "call john doe at mobile" and it properly selects the name from my contacts and then says "call john doe on mobile" and I say yes and it dials.
VLINGO kept on coming up with on screen prompts. I don't want to look at my phone while I'm driving.
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Thanks - I just tried VLINGO - maybe I don't have it set up properly. I want something just MS Voice command where I press the button on my headset and it I say "call john doe at mobile" and it properly selects the name from my contacts and then says "call john doe on mobile" and I say yes and it dials.
VLINGO kept on coming up with on screen prompts. I don't want to look at my phone while I'm driving.
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The first time you trigger it (by holding the search button), it will ask you some crap. Just go through that once, and it won't do it again. Next time you hit it, it will just pop up a screen that says "Listening..." At that point just say, "Call homer simpson mobile" and it will do so. It has been remarkably accurate for me. And you can even have it do other things than dial (send text to..., etc.).
Overall, I like it about as well as MS voice command, and it does more.
Also, no need to hit "go" when you're done speaking. Just wait a second and it will figure it out. The less interaction with the screen, the better, in my opinion.
Thanks - I think my mistake was setting it for vlingo inCar. I still could use your help a bit further. I don't know how to have it give me a verbal confirmation vs. on screen. I also don't know how to have it search my contacts and not the web/yellow pages. When I'm calling via BT, I know who I want to call.
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Thanks - I think my mistake was setting it for vlingo inCar. I still could use your help a bit further. I don't know how to have it give me a verbal confirmation vs. on screen. I also don't know how to have it search my contacts and not the web/yellow pages. When I'm calling via BT, I know who I want to call.
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I haven't used it, but here is how you setup verbal confirmations: open the app, click menu, settings, click advanced, and check "text to speech (beta)."
I've never had mine search the web. Are you using "Call..." or just saying the person's name? Try saying "call peter griffin at home" instead of just "peter griffin" and see if that works better for you. There must be a setting to disable that, because I've never had it search the web when I was trying to dial someone. However, I don't use it with bluetooth very often.
Dave
It's doing the same thing for me when I try to call a contact, if I don't say @ mobile or @ work. If I say @ mobile or @ work then it works pretty good. The deal breaker for me is that while using it if I hit the call/end button on my bluetooth it just shuts off the bluetooth earpiece and doesn't hang up the call like the standard dialer does.
So how is everyone doing visual voicemail? Is there an app in market?? google voice? I had stock on blackberry and its on iphone, don't see anything here jumping out at me...
google voice, youmail
^ this
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+1 Google voice
It has so many features that att voicemail can't do. It will transcribe your message so you can read it, it can automatically send that transcription to you via text or email. You can choose the order of playback of your messages, and you can rewind or fast forward them.
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+2 for google voice. The transcription isn't perfect, but any errors are usually really easy to figure out.
I've had a google voice number since it wasn't even google voice (grandcentral), I've played with it off and on over the years but never used it. They've added a few features!
Installed the app on the my android for the first time yesterday and yea i'll +3 that for the visual voicemail.
Thanks everyone!
love my google voice once you get it set up.. just sit back and enjoy
+1 for Google voice, I tried Youmail and it seemed like there was always a delay in notification.
i used to have Youmail back in my BB days. But +10000 for google voice. Its much better, IMO.
I use the Phonefusion app. It's free and also does transcription. Seems to work fine, although the app is ugly as sin. I have Google Voice as well, but I don't use it as my main voice mail.
The AT&T Messages app will do VVM with your native mail and give you some other Google voice type functions. I don't like the delay for google voice vmail to pick up if you don't reject the call.
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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
Anyone else have horrible experience with the voice to text function on the watch? I try to respond to text and it just completely gets the message wrong..I use my phone and say the exact same thing and it understands perfectly.
Also is there a text limit? It seems I can only do a "quick reply" of maybe a sentence and the watch stops listening and just sends it.. Even of I'm still talking
Right now when OK GOOGLE it can't figure out what I'm saying but if I go straight to the messaging or hangouts app on the watch it has no issues understanding me. Really strange
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I've experienced the short "limit" that you mentioned, but mine voice to text transcription is usually either accurate or it just does a working circle thing.
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I've experienced the short "limit" that you mentioned, but mine voice to text transcription is usually either accurate or it just does a working circle thing.
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Have you tried OK GOOGLE today? Lot of folks on reddit are complaining about Android wear in general recording the voice at high speeds. It only does this when doing okay Google or swiping to the voice command screen. It's okay when replying to messages.
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