I like it when i found out cool things about my phone!
So I was going to scan one of those digital bar codes and pressed the bing search button and realized there was an option to scan text. Hmmm.... i said to myself, and gave it a try. This phone(come to find out its all windows phones) can act as an optical character recognition. You can scan an image and copy the text and paste it into a word document. And then, while i was messing around with it, i come to find out that if you just leave it with a view of the cover of book, it will recognize it and pull up searches for the book!
Maybe you know this, maybe you don't (haven't used a windows phone since the HTC Tilt) I don't know if I will ever use this feature, but it is still cool to know that this phone can do a lot of cool things I may never use.
In case you don't know, it also does the translation in-place too. So, if you are in a foreign country and want to find out what that sign or menu means, just use Bing search and point your camera to it. You do have to choose the languages. This feature used to be a separate app for WP7 but now integrated into Bing search itself.
Great stuff right? These are known features and part of Bing Vision (if I am not mistaken thats the official name) and available for a while now.
Similarly try Bing Translator App, it can translate text using your Camera in real time, also a very impressive feature.
http://youtu.be/ZBmvv2UPMiE
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Great stuff right? These are known features and part of Bing Vision (if I am not mistaken thats the official name) and available for a while now.
Similarly try Bing Translator App, it can translate text using your Camera in real time, also a very impressive feature.
http://youtu.be/ZBmvv2UPMiE
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NICE! Translator is something i will use. Is this in offline mode as well? I'm just looking for things to translate now. Thanks
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Great stuff right? These are known features and part of Bing Vision (if I am not mistaken thats the official name) and available for a while now.
Similarly try Bing Translator App, it can translate text using your Camera in real time, also a very impressive feature.
http://youtu.be/ZBmvv2UPMiE
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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it all in the search app by pressing the search hard button. It can translate anything to anything by autodetecting the language viewed by the lense.
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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Like I said above, WP8 no longer has this app because it is part of Bing search. But it also lost offline translate that the app had.
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App doesn't seem available in the store. I can translate from english to another language, but how do i go from another language to english?
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It should recognize foreign text automatically. It recognized Vietnamese...but it did a really poor job translating it. Half the stuff didn't translate and the other half didn't come close to what it actually meant.
English to other languages has been pretty accurate so far though.
Have they included support for non-latin based languages? there is a Japanese grocery store by me, and they have an entire area of sauces with no english words on the bottle. so essentially, there is no way to find out what is in each of these bottles. I tired using my phone (albeit it was a samsung focus using mango at the time), and it could not recognize Japanese. did it to Vietnamese hot sauce. It didn't recognize that, either
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Have they included support for non-latin based languages? there is a Japanese grocery store by me, and they have an entire area of sauces with no english words on the bottle. so essentially, there is no way to find out what is in each of these bottles. I tired using my phone (albeit it was a samsung focus using mango at the time), and it could not recognize Japanese. did it to Vietnamese hot sauce. It didn't recognize that, either
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You need to select your translation language manually. I've tested with a few Chinese menus and it works fine.
Nice stuff!
we had a cab on windows mobile that could scan business cards and put the information straight into the contacts app.worked pretty good too. is this supported as well?
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I wood love to know if there are availiable any other locales except English and Espaniol? And what about keyboard input languages, the same issue, only english?
I'm for example interested in Ukrainian locale and keyboard (or Russian). MAybe there is a way to get it?
For keyboard, try Gingerbread keyboard from the Market, and install the respective language. I believe they have Russian. I have Norwegian installed on mine. Hopefully that helps. As for the other part, I don't know of anything to help ya. Sorry.
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https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Steven+Lin&start=12&num=12
Tell me if that works for ya. It's a link to the guy who has the keyboard and the language pack for Russian. Page 2.
Thanks, I will try that.
And if I will flash custom rom (Alien for example), will I get more than just two (english and espaniol) locales?
Not on home base. And I don't recall Alien being any different. So I'm gonna have to say no. Unless someone makes a ROM with that option built in. I think you're gonna be stuck with those two language options.
That's not good at all ))))
Yeah. If you wanna tackle trying to make a ROM, there is a thread in here that has books you can download and learn how to do it and such. And make your own with whatever language you want, I'd assume.
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Yeah. If you wanna tackle trying to make a ROM, there is a thread in here that has books you can download and learn how to do it and such. And make your own with whatever language you want, I'd assume.
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))) This must be the hardest way. But I woud try if there is no other way
It's the only way I can think of Bud.
Can you give me a link for those books? And other links for making a rom, if you know such.
Where in this rom 1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf are localization language files? And how they can be added?
Can be taken localization files from HTC roms and added into this rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284998
That's the link. And you'd have to see if someone here who is a bit more familiar with rom's can answer that. I would assume you can use it as a base then try to pull the files and put them in. But don't quote me on that, cause I'm not totally sure. Hope that helps out some though.
I didn't have any problems with adding Russian keyboard for writing in photon. It was in 154.5 firmware and in latest too.
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I didn't have any problems with adding Russian keyboard for writing in photon. It was in 154.5 firmware and in latest too.
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Yes it'avaliable, I was just inattentive.
But still I want Ukrainian interface and keyboard)) or at least Russian...
There is one more question. Phone receives USSD incorectly. What can be wrong? And how to fix it?
For example when I want to check my balance, I send *#111# and receive empty massage.
First of all, thanks for this forum -- rooted my NT (first android device) yesterday using the instructions here and it's delightful.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a solution or workaround for using multiple dictionaries?
I'd like to be able to read foreign language content using the instant lookup function, but it seems that this is not built into the nook (unbelievable). Being able to replace the default English-English dictionary would also be great. Although this is a feature on the Kindle, it isn't available on the Kindle for Android app (also unbelievable). I looked at other eReader software, but "dictionary support" seems to amount to ColorDict. I'd be more than happy to splash out for some quality dictionaries, but only if I can integrate them into the reader.
The only thing I've been able to find is this, a Russian language forum where the OP seems to have gone into the file system and manually replaced the stock dictionary. I'll gladly do that if it comes down to it but was wondering if there was a less tedious / more obvious way.
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First of all, thanks for this forum -- rooted my NT (first android device) yesterday using the instructions here and it's delightful.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a solution or workaround for using multiple dictionaries?
I'd like to be able to read foreign language content using the instant lookup function, but it seems that this is not built into the nook (unbelievable). Being able to replace the default English-English dictionary would also be great. Although this is a feature on the Kindle, it isn't available on the Kindle for Android app (also unbelievable). I looked at other eReader software, but "dictionary support" seems to amount to ColorDict. I'd be more than happy to splash out for some quality dictionaries, but only if I can integrate them into the reader.
The only thing I've been able to find is this, a Russian language forum where the OP seems to have gone into the file system and manually replaced the stock dictionary. I'll gladly do that if it comes down to it but was wondering if there was a less tedious / more obvious way.
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I tried to figure out how to change the language to German last night, but had no lucky at it. ("ro.sys.locale.language" is set to "de", as well as the country code is "DE" but yet nothing has changed.)
I think that the B&N Nook shows an incredible lack of foreign language support, and is basically I guess targeted as a "US only" device. This probably explains why the Out Of Box Experience only presents one with US timezones when it starts up. v_v
So frustrating/ridiculous! Yes, it's a "US device" but it's foolish of B&N to ignore the tens of millions of people in the US who speak or study other languages (Spanish speakers alone are pushing 30 million).
I hope the hack I mentioned in my original post works. Still waiting on my SD card to try it out.
Anyway, I posted on the B&N forums about this:
bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/NOOK-Tablet-Ideas-Suggestions/Bilingual-amp-3rd-Party-Dictionary-Support/idi-p/1262799
If anyone agrees please click the laurel leaf icon so that this issue can (maybe) get some attention.
I agree... it actually upsets me quite often that US companies typically completely ignore other languages within the US.
Apple? First thing it asks me is "what language do you want to use?" They built that flexibility in from the start. On Windows? You buy the English version, and you're stuck with English (yes, Vista and later, you can download language packs after). So, then end up having to customize and sell different copies of the OS to every different market.
OSX: we build one binary, and hey, look it works.
Windows: we have to build a different binary for every different language, and oh, some of them might not work, because English is treated specially from all of the other languages.
Posting in case someone finds it helpful
My personal workaround for the time being --
I downloaded the German version of Kindle for Android, which comes with a built-in monolingual Duden dictionary. (Fortunately my German is strong enough for this to work. Quite useless for other languages/ability levels though.)
The downloaded dictionary appears to be visible in the file system with *.mpb and *.prc file extensions. I wonder if it would be possible simply to manually swap them out with a dictionary in the same format?
Install coolreader and colordict, then downlowd whatever dictionaries you need. There are many dictionaries available online.
@wwmhf -- After reading your post I decided to dig a little deeper. I downloaded GoldenDict and then discovered lingvodics.com.
Okay, absolutely no more angst over this issue. Thanks!
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@wwmhf -- After reading your post I decided to dig a little deeper. I downloaded GoldenDict and then discovered lingvodics.com.
Okay, absolutely no more angst over this issue. Thanks!
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Hello could you please update the title and add [resolved] at the start.
Thanks
Veronica
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Hi, try d/l an app from the market called more locale. Don't know if that suit your need of the dictionary thing, but definitely give your NT more locale to choose from (with most of the menus and some system apps name translated).
I'm on a rooted device with snowball mod in HK and wanted to play with the google voice search function for Cantonese and find no way of activating it since I can't choose any language apart from English US and UK (duh....)
After installing the more local app, I can select google voice to work with Cantonese search.
Perhaps Veronica can considering putting this under the NT Tips and Trick sticky for other poor souls that need an alternate locale.
German-German/English-English switch
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My personal workaround for the time being --
I downloaded the German version of Kindle for Android, which comes with a built-in monolingual Duden dictionary. (Fortunately my German is strong enough for this to work. Quite useless for other languages/ability levels though.)
The downloaded dictionary appears to be visible in the file system with *.mpb and *.prc file extensions. I wonder if it would be possible simply to manually swap them out with a dictionary in the same format?
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Hey pal... I´m thinking about buying a Nook Touch. It´s cheaper and more beautiful than eReaders available in Germany. Nonetheless, I´m Brazilian - neither English nor German is my native language. I would like to have this Duden Dictionary for German books and whatever the original platform has for the english language.
How could I do that? Would you make a tutorial step-by-step for me? I´m totally rookie on these issues.
Thanks!
Hi,
I took a look at a video about Google Now where someone was using a lot of different command to get info from wikipedia, or to do things on the phone like setting up allarms, play music, turn off wifi, etc. I am wondering why if I am using latest version for CM10 from epinter, it doesn't have all the recognition this video has.
Everything I said even though it is well recognized by Google Now the only thing it does is a google search.
Any idea?
Check under Menu >> Config >> Voice:
Language is English
Download offline speech recognition >> English Installed
tried
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Check under Menu >> Config >> Voice:
Language is English
Download offline speech recognition >> English Installed
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I tried that but it wasn't enough, I had to change the entire Android language to English, otherwise it was just searching was I was saying.
I still couldn't make it work on Spanish, even setting everything to spanish it only searches what I say, no stuff integration like wikipedia, or text mesages, or reminders or any other feature.
There are a couple of things you need to have straight.
For one, this isn't a fully-functional rom since the real thing doesn't even exist for this phone. Of course features are going to be incomplete. That video is a horrible tool for comparison. That said, not all features in that video are supported. Alarms,traffic, and basic searches? Yes. Other stuff? Not really.
Also, I believe there was a bit in the epinter thread that mentioned how it would only work in English for right now.
Google Now on Atrix is as good as it is on my Nexus 7.
Sent from my Nexus 7 on official CM10
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Google Now on Atrix is as good as it is on my Nexus 7.
Sent from my Nexus 7 on official CM10
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That's weird. I definitely don't have all functionality as shown in other devices running JB.
I've noticed a few issues. I'm using the same Rom. Google Now doesn't work as well on my Atrix as it does on my TF300 that was OTA updated to JB. But that's to be expected. The rom is in Alpha stage still I believe, not everything is prefect yet. The only issues I find though is that it wont talk back to you answers. Like if you ask for simple tasked that it normally would speak the answer as well as show you. I only get the google search results and the cards.
Hi,
Hope there's someone out here that can help me out.
I'm trying to use ICS voice recognition on my SGII. It has nice recognition, but I can't seem to enter any punctuation at all. It works ok with English, but in Spanish, whenever I say "punto", "coma", "signo de interrogación", etc. it just writes that down instead of the actual punctuation.
Does anyone know why is that or if there's a solution? I can't believe Google released Spanish voice typing without addressing this issue. I've checked the Android OS support page (for Nexus devices) and it just says I need to say those words, but it doesn't work.
Very frustrating. :crying:
pancomido said:
Hi,
Hope there's someone out here that can help me out.
I'm trying to use ICS voice recognition on my SGII. It has nice recognition, but I can't seem to enter any punctuation at all. It works ok with English, but in Spanish, whenever I say "punto", "coma", "signo de interrogación", etc. it just writes that down instead of the actual punctuation.
Does anyone know why is that or if there's a solution? I can't believe Google released Spanish voice typing without addressing this issue. I've checked the Android OS support page (for Nexus devices) and it just says I need to say those words, but it doesn't work.
Very frustrating. :crying:
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Well ... You're not alone in there
I would like to post the links about the several issues reported on Android support ... but I'm not able to post links yet
Anyway if you go Android Project on Google , in Issues and search for "Punctuation" , you'll find the same issue for German / Italian / French.
Pretty much , punctuation is not working anywhere but English ...
Spanglish doesn't work?
Well, I have a Galaxy S III but I'm sure that this is the same problem...:/
I've tried to download the italian offline dictation package but, as spanish, It doesn't work for "question mark" or other punctuation command.
Now my question is: Is there any way to modify the multi-language dictation packages and add the punctuation dictation feature? Where is the right folder where are downloaded these package? I found the "/system/usr/srec" folder but I don't think it's the right one...There is only the "en-US" folder inside..
If someone with more experience in Modding or developing could help me would be fantastic...and I'm sure that a lot of people (all over the world.. ) would be very happy..
I'm sorry to bring up this old thread but this is still an issue for me, did you guys ever fixed this?
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I'm sorry to bring up this old thread but this is still an issue for me, did you guys ever fixed this?
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No, there is no fix and google is ignoring all the reported issues on code.google.com. Not a single answer from them since this was first reported on November 2012 (and this despite the fact the thousands of users have starred the different issues and commented on them).
Same issue is also affecting German / French and possibly other non-English languages.
I think we can safely assume they don't care and this will not get fixed anytime soon.
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I'm sorry to bring up this old thread but this is still an issue for me, did you guys ever fixed this?
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I noticed that my Nexus 4 with Android 5.1.1 is able to recognise a few punctuation commands in Italian. I will explore this further but 'punto' and 'nuovo paragrafo' do what the are expected to do.
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dtatti said:
I noticed that my Nexus 4 with Android 5.1.1 is able to recognise a few punctuation commands in Italian. I will explore this further but 'punto' and 'nuovo paragrafo' do what the are expected to do.
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Not in spanish. It still writes the word instead.
Allright, I recently got my hands on a cheap mt6572 phone and I intended to give it as a gift, but it only has english and some Asian languages available in the settings menu, and since the person I was going to give this phone to doesn't speak english or any sort of chinese-like language, I'd like to know if it is possible to add other languages to the android(4.2.2) running on this phone. Considering that those apps on the store that supposedly add languages have already been tested and don't seem to work.
batoussai said:
Allright, I recently got my hands on a cheap mt6572 phone and I intended to give it as a gift, but it only has english and some Asian languages available in the settings menu, and since the person I was going to give this phone to doesn't speak english or any sort of chinese-like language, I'd like to know if it is possible to add other languages to the android(4.2.2) running on this phone. Considering that those apps on the store that supposedly add languages have already been tested and don't seem to work.
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Hi. No way, without recompile system firmware.
"The settings app just shows you all of the locales that are available in the platform resources. Adding strings for a new locale should automatically have those shown in settings. You tell the build system which locale resources to include when it does the build... unfortunately I can't help you on that part, but maybe someone else can."
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I can't posting links in messages (less than 10 messages), but if you need details, can write PM.
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Hi. No way, without recompile system firmware.
I can't posting links in messages (less than 10 messages), but if you need details, can write PM.
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Oh well. Sounds like trouble considering that the phone does not feature proper recovery (like CWM) for restoring everything in case something goes wrong =/
Anyway, if you could PM me the link I'll do some risk analysis XD