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There seems to be lots of free and open source text to speach code out there: http://sig.levillage.org/?p=551
So, wouldnt it be cool to have your universal say 'Incoming call from <contact name>' instead of your usual ring tone? It gets right around the problem of having to open up the screen to see who is calling.
It would also be a great gimick for people with other phones too. Talking ring tones havent even been done by Nokia yet. 8)
RyanZA said:
There seems to be lots of free and open source text to speach code out there: http://sig.levillage.org/?p=551
So, wouldnt it be cool to have your universal say 'Incoming call from <contact name>' instead of your usual ring tone? It gets right around the problem of having to open up the screen to see who is calling.
It would also be a great gimick for people with other phones too. Talking ring tones havent even been done by Nokia yet. 8)
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Microsoft Voice Command do that and more...
If there is a program to read your incoming sms.....
Regards,
Arto.
Artosoft said:
Microsoft Voice Command do that and more...
If there is a program to read your incoming sms.....
Regards,
Arto.
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Wow, thanks.
Yeah, incoming SMS would be good. :wink:
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Artosoft said:
Microsoft Voice Command do that and more...
If there is a program to read your incoming sms.....
Regards,
Arto.
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Wow, thanks.
Yeah, incoming SMS would be good. :wink:
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VIJAY...... WE NEED YOU!!!!
Regards,
Arto.
There is the Fonix range which can read your email, but I don't know whether it'd be able to read your SMSes too.
Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but why would you want SMS-to-Speech?
"Dot Dot Dot Forwardslash dot dot dot Open Bracket dot dot dot", and that's just the first line of one of those cutesy smsses. Or the ones where each letter is converted into it's visual brother, but with umlauts and all the other diacritical marks (accents, breves, circumflexes, spiritus and hooks)? To the english speaking person, the letter "ß" looks like a funky "B", but in germanic, it's an 's" sound.
And "Ur th bst 1 n da wrld" (not a good example, but you get the idea) does not translate well if not heavily interpreted first.
It'd be a "neato" feature, which you'd uninstall after a day's usage.
Can Microsoft Voice Command read up a contacts name and tell me that?
.. Microsoft Voice Command is it worth buying?
Messed around with MS voice command a bit.. havent been using it much before because I dont need the features much over the built in thing. I tried turning on the announce incoming phone calls option, but its really soft. (Far too soft to hear). The normal ring tone plays for a second, then goes soft and I assume the voice command is trying to speak after that, but its too soft to hear, even with the phone next to my ear.
I agree, I love the Voice command function that tells you who's calling but yes it is way to quiet so I usually turn it off, it needs to be load and not trying to swap between the ringtone and voice command telling you the person who's calling. So yes a specific program to do this as a ring tone would be great.
Interesting thread. This is a great idea, but I have to say, MSVC does the job so well, it's probably not worth expanding beyond there. However, I'm looking into a general text to speech solution for PPC.
Our best bet is flite, which is a relatively large install and doesn't sound very good.
However, an easy way for you to start thinking about this is to check out the app WordBook. I think it installs a version of the Flite dll. You can copy text and get it to speak it straight back to you. The speech is quite poor quality, but it gives you an idea. Now I imagine you can access this externally, and so you can intercept SMS, calls etc and get it text to speeched.
However, since MSVC is installed in traditional SAPI form, it should also be externally accessible.
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Voice Command
I have just tried the demo of Voice Command on universal, but i couldnt get button on bluetooth headset to activate it. Also it would be nice if the caller name being read out would be good over the bluetooth headset.
Can and of the genius's on this site create such a programe. Or anyone know of any other programmes.
Using the phone in clam mode means you dont know whos calling, and as i use my bluetooth headset all the time, it would be nice to know whos calling.
Thanks in advance
Tim
timha: there are about 90 threads on the VC+Clam issue. Non successful, but helpful...
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vijay555 said:
Interesting thread. This is a great idea, but I have to say, MSVC does the job so well, it's probably not worth expanding beyond there.
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I dont know about that. Have you tried using the announce incoming calls option? On my universal, no matter what settings I try, its simply impossible to hear what VC is saying while the phone is ringing. So for me, VC definately doesnt seem to be doing the job very well at all.
Has anybody been able to get VC to properly announce the caller ID?
No VC is to quiet, so useless
Aaah, ok, I don't use my universal as a phone, and just remember it from the Magician, when it would announce calls. I think there's a thread around trying to resolve this issue though.
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Voice Command has a known problem of being extremely quiet on the Universal.
Somewhere on this site there is a fix CAB file that ostensibly makes the volume higher. I hadn't found a major difference, but look for it and try.
The announce works best if you turn the ringtone off and use annouce only (make sure your normal volume - not ringing volume - is turned way up)
No good, its still very soft. Having the volume on full is also quite a hindrance, since you have to keep turning it up and down all the time. As they said back in November, we'r going to have to wait on an update to make voice command properly compatible with WM5. There doesnt seem to be any move by Microsoft to actually do this, though.
Strange that nobody has really used voice caller ID on the Universal before - it seems the obvious choice for a ring tone to me on a phone like this.
The hack for increasing sound - never tried it, but it involves, IIRC, changing the attentuation type in the notification settings.
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Hi.
I only have Voice Commander. Is it different from MSVC? I keep looking for the announce incoming calls but couldnt find it. Voice Commander has been in my phone when I bought it so I just use what's available but it gives me so much headache. When I say "Call John", it gives me several names that dont even sound close to John. Grrr! I even put tags on the names individually but my VC is so deaf! Is it because of my bluetooth headset, VC or is it the phone's fault?
thanks
I've been using this for a couple of years now:
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
Type your message, pick and voice and download the WAV
Nice and easy and works VERY well so check it out
RyanZA said:
There seems to be lots of free and open source text to speach code out there: http://sig.levillage.org/?p=551
So, wouldnt it be cool to have your universal say 'Incoming call from <contact name>' instead of your usual ring tone? It gets right around the problem of having to open up the screen to see who is calling.
It would also be a great gimick for people with other phones too. Talking ring tones havent even been done by Nokia yet. 8)
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aside from microsoft voice command; what i use is mortring...i'm sure you guys are familiar with this app...it allows you to assign ringtones and sms sounds to individuals in your contacts. using the xda's microphone, i made my own ringtones by recording either my voice or someone else's. example; i deal with a lot of raw material suppliers and i get calls all the time. when this guy working for a foundry calls me up; the sound i recorded goes "mr. johnson is calling". for others whom i've developed good relationships with, i asked if i could record their voice and use it as a ringtone....so if my supplier from an aluminum die caster calls my xda goes "hi robson, this is ch lim". sms' are easy since you can do the same and assign them for that particular contact. when i receive and sms, my xda goes "text message from ____". for the people who call me that are not in my contacts list; the default ringtone i've set sounds off. this is very convenient for me when i'm driving or the like, no need to look at the phone and simply activate the bluetooth headset.
you don't really have to go and search the net for ringtones all the time; you can use the xda's recorder to actually make them. the format output is in .wav file. for text to speech for sms, i agree that would be a very interesting feature...flite is a good app...perhaps vijay can link up something for sms? but then that would probably violate the license thingee for flite...
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Hi Friends
I have a problem with my athena
i can't get the call waiting alert!!!
it mean, when i call to someone and he is talking with otherone and i am waiting on the line, i can't underestand!!
in other phone can, and a alert show waiting... but with athena i can't see anything
sorry for my very bad english
tanX
if you can't underestand my problem, please tell me to type again better
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if you can't underestand my problem, please tell me to type again better
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Call waiting needs to be enabled by the network operator. Have you tried this SIM card in your other phone to see if it is to do with the operator or the handset?
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Call waiting needs to be enabled by the network operator. Have you tried this SIM card in your other phone to see if it is to do with the operator or the handset?
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tanX for answer, but it isn't my problem.
my call waiting is Enable.
i want to know when my friend is talking with phone!
for example you are talking with you phone, and i call you
then i must waiting until your call end
in other phone a messege show like: your are waiting
but i can't see any thing like this in athena!!
my english is bad, i hope you can underestand my problem
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tanX for answer, but it isn't my problem.
my call waiting is Enable.
i want to know when my friend is talking with phone!
for example you are talking with you phone, and i call you
then i must waiting until your call end
in other phone a messege show like: your are waiting
but i can't see any thing like this in athena!!
my english is bad, i hope you can underestand my problem
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No phone I know of will tell the other person that they are waiting, that is a network function. For example in the UK with landlines if you call a BT phone the person calling will get "The other person knows you are waiting, please hold" or something similar while they are talking to someone else. This is a network property not a handset one.
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The only exception is devices like those made by Gigabyte, but to my knowledge HTC do not have this property.
He mean the well known problem in WM5 (and WM6) that enventualy mess with the alert queue. I got the problem and I solve it with the automatic clean-up of the program MemMaid.
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No phone I know of will tell the other person that they are waiting, that is a network function. For example in the UK with landlines if you call a BT phone the person calling will get "The other person knows you are waiting, please hold" or something similar while they are talking to someone else. This is a network property not a handset one.
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The only exception is devices like those made by Gigabyte, but to my knowledge HTC do not have this property.
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no it is not a network function!!
i test it on one network with Nokia N90, Nokia N93, Nokia 7710 and HTC Advantage
but only N90 and N93 show waiting and for 7710 and athena now happen any thing!!!
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He mean the well known problem in WM5 (and WM6) that enventualy mess with the alert queue. I got the problem and I solve it with the automatic clean-up of the program MemMaid.
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how you solve this problem?
whit a special programe?
how i can see waiting alert?
it is very important for me
tanX
Oh! Apologies, I thought you meant a signal the caller gets...
Notification Alert Queue's can be cleared with MemMaid, and I think SKTools can also help
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Oh! Apologies, I thought you meant a signal the caller gets...
Notification Alert Queue's can be cleared with MemMaid, and I think SKTools can also help
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tanX
please tell me now what i do for solve it?
what programe i get?
tanX
aloooooooooooooo
i need this
do any one can help me?
tanX
From what they have said it sounds like you use MemMaid (http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/) to fix your alert queue. It has a "Rebuild the queue" option in it. Mahjong apparently uses MemMaid's scheduling abilities to automatically clean his phone, which solves the problem for him. I don't have this problem but hopefully that makes sense to you and helps you.
good
this is very important for pocketpc and ithing we must go for it any idea thanks
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From what they have said it sounds like you use MemMaid (http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/) to fix your alert queue. It has a "Rebuild the queue" option in it. Mahjong apparently uses MemMaid's scheduling abilities to automatically clean his phone, which solves the problem for him. I don't have this problem but hopefully that makes sense to you and helps you.
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Hi
tanX for your answer!
are you sure you haven't this problem? what is your ppc?
I hope you can underestand my problem.
are you sure you can know your friend is talking or no!!
IF you can't underestan my problem, please call with a phone like Nokia N90, to your home, when you are talking with otherone by you homephone.
tanX
Arya said:
how you solve this problem?
whit a special programe?
how i can see waiting alert?
it is very important for me
tanX
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1) Search Google for Memmaid.
2) Install it in your PDA
3) Run MemMaid QuickClean (you will find it under Programs once you install Memmaid)
4) Done
This solve the problem to me.
Ah I almost forgot to mention that I learned about those 4 steps reading the messages at xda-developers.com... The Search option you find in the top of every page is a great tool.
Best regards,
mahjong
I think you guys must be confused...
In my case, when i call someone that is on a call with call waiting activated on my HTC Touch doesn't "say" anything. On my old Nokia it "says" Waiting.
Another think i noticed is when i receive a diverted call on the old phone says "diverted call" and then put a simbol before the number. On my new phone no information about it is displayed.
I know this happens with HTC's... don't know about other brands...
Can anyone know if there is any app that can make the phone "smarter" in this case?
PBaz said:
I think you guys must be confused...
In my case, when i call someone that is on a call with call waiting activated on my HTC Touch doesn't "say" anything. On my old Nokia it "says" Waiting.
Another think i noticed is when i receive a diverted call on the old phone says "diverted call" and then put a simbol before the number. On my new phone no information about it is displayed.
I know this happens with HTC's... don't know about other brands...
Can anyone know if there is any app that can make the phone "smarter" in this case?
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YES. My Problem is it, not anything else
thank you for your translate
I think it should be slove with a application to show AT Command and ...
i hope other one also underestand my problem!!
Only for Uping Thread
sorry
my program is still not solved:-(
Hello,
Need following software that I could not find:
1. Call conversation recorder (tried Resco won't work properly - almost impossible to hear the person you are talking with, I suppose it uses microphone to record, isn't there any internal way to do it?)
2. ****list software to block calls and messages from unwanted numbers.
My machine is HTC Touch Cruise, Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro
Much obliged in advance for any clues.
Oooooh exotic! Haha.
Use "Call Firewall" (search google) for blocking calls. For recording calls you are most likely out of luck on Pocket PC. Haven't seen a good one come across the forum yet. Anyone care to prove me wrong?
You can use the notes function built in to WM6 and record it from there... Bad quality but does the job...
juiceppc said:
Oooooh exotic! Haha.
Use "Call Firewall" (search google) for blocking calls. For recording calls you are most likely out of luck on Pocket PC. Haven't seen a good one come across the forum yet. Anyone care to prove me wrong?
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Well it's most upseting then for the phone like that. I suppose many consider it business phone, and businessmen should be most interested in recording their calls :|
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You can use the notes function built in to WM6 and record it from there... Bad quality but does the job...
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I know that, you gotta push and hold that damn button all the time and that is not that easy and most uncomfortable :|
in the US some states is illegal to record phone calls and other voice recordings unless you get consent from the other party. maybe that's why they didnt put it into the phone. may be some legal issues they didnt wanna deal it and be liable for.
No... During a call, you can press the notes button within the phone app and then hit record in there. I'll post some screen shots if you want...
I live in Europe, Lithuania, so it doesn't concern me whatsoever
NguyenHuu said:
in the US some states is illegal to record phone calls and other voice recordings unless you get consent from the other party. maybe that's why they didnt put it into the phone. may be some legal issues they didnt wanna deal it and be liable for.
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Very uncomfortable I should say, I was looking for much more automatized software, at least Resco adds date, number and some other info I suppose. And by the way does it work if you're talking with bluetooth headset on? I guess not...
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No... During a call, you can press the notes button within the phone app and then hit record in there. I'll post some screen shots if you want...
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I doubt it...
Resco Audio Recorder automatically records phone calls (I remember because I didn't know it was on, so I filled up my storage with phone recordings).
However, it is quiet because on most WinMo hardware, you can't record incoming voice. It's quiet because it's recording from the mic (where you talk into), which I guess picks up a bit of sound from the speaker (where you listen when you talk). Maybe try talking on speakerphone all the time? Haha, I'm sure that won't work in a business setting, but it's something.
can "Call Firewall" block messages (SMS) as well? I guess not. And that is even more important for me. Anyone knows software with this function?
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Oooooh exotic! Haha.
Use "Call Firewall" (search google) for blocking calls. For recording calls you are most likely out of luck on Pocket PC. Haven't seen a good one come across the forum yet. Anyone care to prove me wrong?
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There is a program i have tested on wm6 it's called LivePVR if you PM me i can give you a link
Try PMRecorder. It's fully automatic, and it's supposed to be working quite well.
Hi,
Vito audioNotes does a very good job on this. Good quality sound and small files.
Cheers,
Dirk
Hello Everyone,
I don't know if anything like this is already available, but I'd love to have something which speaks the time to me so that I don't have to get my phone out of my pocket when I have the headset on.
I get so frustrated having to keep getting my phone out, especially when listening to music.
It would be great if it listened for a particular HW button key press or something.
Thanks,
Daveraven
Again I am disappointed how lazy ppl are nowadays.
SPOKEN TIME IS FOR BLIND PEOPLE! YOU ARE LUCKY YOU CAN SEE THE CLOCK SO SEE IT!!
Usper said:
Again I am disappointed how lazy ppl are nowadays.
SPOKEN TIME IS FOR BLIND PEOPLE! YOU ARE LUCKY YOU CAN SEE THE CLOCK SO SEE IT!!
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OK fine, I think someone should make this application for blind people.
How can you say "I am disappointed how lazy people are nowadays" ?
This is a forum about Pocket PCs, and half of the threads are about applications and things to save time/hassle. Will you visit all the other threads about great applications and complain about how lazy people are?
Daveraven
P.S. I noticed that you're too lazy to write the word 'people' so you used 'ppl' instead... how hypocritical of you!
....more than spoken time is the Spoken Caller Name... with loquendo tts would be GREAT... but i think anyone has the skill here.... or the time.
I've heard it on a nokia and it's really cool (also for 1 ring-missed calls)
already in voice command
correct me if I'm wrong, but voice command does exactly this. Just press the button on your headset, (or the assigned button on the diamond itself) to activate voice command, then it beeps. Then you say, "what time is it" Then the lovely computer voice tells you. easy as pie.
I don't seem to have Voice Command, whatever that is...
You can read about it here -
http://www.twoinchview.com/124-microsoft-voice-command-16-reviewed
there is Cyberon (no idea on spelling) and Microsoft Voice Commander, Dutty does two versions of his ROMs, one with C one with M.
Excellent - thanks everyone!
I suppose asking for the time instead of pressing a button would be sufficient!
Daveraven
....cyberon voice command not avaiable in italian
daveraven said:
Hello Everyone,
I don't know if anything like this is already available, but I'd love to have something which speaks the time to me so that I don't have to get my phone out of my pocket when I have the headset on.
I get so frustrated having to keep getting my phone out, especially when listening to music.
It would be great if it listened for a particular HW button key press or something.
Thanks,
Daveraven
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Star Time is available on www.e-mode.ro torrent at : http://www.e-mode.ro/details.php?id=3499
Joeball88 said:
correct me if I'm wrong, but voice command does exactly this. Just press the button on your headset, (or the assigned button on the diamond itself) to activate voice command, then it beeps. Then you say, "what time is it" Then the lovely computer voice tells you. easy as pie.
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Yep you are correct. This thread is now closed because the original request has been met and could have been met by performing a simple search.
not sure if its just me that hates this, but if your on the manila sms tab and you hit the call button to bring up the phone pad, it automtically starts dialing the number of the sms that is currently on view.
is there a way to turn this off ? i want to press the call button and choose the contact.
any ideas ?
thanks
tas
taz2007 said:
not sure if its just me that hates this, but if your on the manila sms tab and you hit the call button to bring up the phone pad, it automtically starts dialing the number of the sms that is currently on view.
is there a way to turn this off ? i want to press the call button and choose the contact.
any ideas ?
thanks
tas
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Why not just come out of sms tab then hit call button?
well, yes that is the sensible option, and i really dont have an answer for that for some reason ill read a text and then decide to call someone at that moment..seems to happen a lot with me, before i know it im calling someone i dont want to call.
just thought if there is some sort of reg fix..or anything really..
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well, yes that is the sensible option, and i really dont have an answer for that for some reason ill read a text and then decide to call someone at that moment..seems to happen a lot with me, before i know it im calling someone i dont want to call.
just thought if there is some sort of reg fix..or anything really..
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So your reading a text from someone, but decide to phone someone else......lol
Anywayz, I haven't heard of a reg fix for this. Maybe somebody else can chip in. I'll have a look at the registry see if I can find something
thats the jist of it...i pick up my phone to read an sms..then i think ah as i have my phone in my hand i better call this person or other way round i go to call someone and then i see i have a text...sooo what ends up happening...yup im calling the wrong person.ha.
if anyone finds a hack that would be cool..but im sure i can live it.
im curious now, i cant be the only person that doesnt like this
taz2007 said:
thats the jist of it...i pick up my phone to read an sms..then i think ah as i have my phone in my hand i better call this person or other way round i go to call someone and then i see i have a text...sooo what ends up happening...yup im calling the wrong person.ha.
if anyone finds a hack that would be cool..but im sure i can live it.
im curious now, i cant be the only person that doesnt like this
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You may not be, but generally (as a rule of thumb) if I'm reading a msg from someone that person is on my mind so I'd want to ring him/her..........but thats just me lol