Related
Tried to search this.. anyone knows if I can voice dial with Desire? I need it when dial someone while driving through bluetooth. Thanks
I too would love an answer to this if anyone has one. Would be nice if the button on bluetooth handsfree kits started voice dialing as with my TouchHD, but just voice dialing would be a start. I am guessing that the only option would be using the voice search but I tried that and it just looked up whatever name I searched on google
Download and install the car dock (see here).
Amongst other things, it allows you to voice dial.
Regards,
Dave
You don't need the car dock app, if you have voice search installed, just long press the search button and say "call whoever".
Si
is there any non internet dependent voice dialer available
Am I missing something? Long press on search key does not bring up any voice search on my Desire... do I need to install any app?
mine puts call whoever into a Google search???
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Guitarfreak26 said:
mine puts call whoever into a Google search???
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You may need to change your Search settings to include contacts/phone content...
people is ticked in the search option in settings lol
how annoying this would be an awesome feature
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Same problem on an Orange Desire.
Mine only loads Google Search!!
help!
http://knowyourmobile.com/smartphon...ow_to_add_voice_search_to_the_htc_desire.html
I havnt gotten my Desire yet, but is it really that easy? Just install that app?
Has someone actually made this work? All my searches go to google. Carl/Kal whatever...
Yep, works fine. DL'd to my PC, onto the card and bingo. Works perfectly.
Keeps saying download unsuccessful on my browser
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Doesn't work on my handset it always performs a Google search. I've even tried unticking the Internet option in the Searchable Items list and it still searches Google. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling too.
Me too I think this might be a new version though but it wont download lol
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
It is a newer version than the one I originally had installed. I uninstalled and reinstalled this one.
Download to your PC, then move to the SD Card and install (just open with Astro.) It really works very well
Yes this works better now, only thing is when i say call mom etc
i get a list.. call mom, call mom mobile, call mom google search etc.. why dont it just do it lol
My droid x keeps on freezing when I try to use voice to text in any setting, such as swype or the search widget. My entire phone locks up with the rotating throbber frozen in the center of the screen, and I have to hit home in order to get out.
Everything else is fine, and I have no issues as long as I stay away from voice to text. Does anybody else have this problem? I think it's the google voice to text service crashing, but I'm not running a task killer, though I used to. Turning my phone off and restarting makes everything fine.
Any ideas?
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
I've been experiencing this since day one, even after the update. It doesn't happen often, but when it does I just kill the voice recognition app and then it works okay. It's only locked up on me once that was bad enough I had to do a battery pull.
What's the name of the app you kill? And after you kill it, can it be used again, or is it just disabled until you restart your phone?
Mikerrrrrrrr said:
What's the name of the app you kill? And after you kill it, can it be used again, or is it just disabled until you restart your phone?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
"Voice Commands", and "yes" respectively.
I've ben having same problem.
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
I have no clue what's causing this problem. Killing Voice Search/Commands seems to be the only workaround at this point, and that doesn't exactly fix things either.
I just did a factory reset to clear up another problem and it seemed to have fixed the vice search also. I recommend trying it.
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
I have had the same problem as well...but I think mine only locks up when I'm using the swype keyboard. So maybe that has something to do with it?
speech to text locking Droid X
I too have been having my speech to text lock up, and notice it happens when using other programs ie. Handscent with swype. move to multi-touch keyboard and it is fine. Has happened with other programs and swype as well.???
Doesn't help when killing voice commands on the Droid X. Only when changing from Swype to Multi-touch keyboard. I love Swype, but maybe love Handscent more :-(
Need to make them play nice together!
This is happening to me and I don't use swype. Has happened on and off when using pretty much all "voice command" type situations. Will lock up once, then after a force kill will work fine next time.
Not sure about this, but doesn't the voice recognition feature have to "call home" to the internet to work (and that is why it takes so long for voice commands to initialize as well) so could this be a problem with connectivity timing out? I could swear I read somewhere that one of the future update plans includes allowing the speech recognition to work without having to connect to google online.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26300180#post26300180
has anyone tried it?
does it work?
it works fine, only problem I had was a force close when trying to find weather. I only played with it for a few minutes.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
sageDieu said:
it works fine, only problem I had was a force close when trying to find weather. I only played with it for a few minutes.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here, only weather started to work after a while, like if I only said "weather" instead of the whole phrase. Only real problems I'm noticing so far is that talk back can be iffy (only works sometimes) and I get a fc every time I try to set a wake command in settings. I'm sure there is more to report, only played with it a bit.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using xda premium
It doesn't know where to hide a dead body
Gues I'll have to ask someone with an iphone to help me..
what makes this any different than voice actions, jeannie, or vlingo? actually those seem to work better than s-voice....
It seems to only handle small requests. Like "open music" and open "XDA". Its faster to just open the app from the drawer. It is pretty funny trying to send SMS and looking at what it thinks you said. Or just messing around, like "Text *blank* message o I c u 8 1 2. Try turning up your media volume in volumes menu and unchecking "link volumes" to get talk back.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA
I was looking through the Nexus 7 manual in the Play Books app and one of the things it says for gestures is swiping up from the bottom on any screen and saying the word "Google" then your search will search for you. I've swiped up and said it, swiped then paused briefly before saying it but nothing works. Is this something that was taken out with the 4.1.1 update or has it always been missing? Failing that am I doing something wrong?
To clarify things I'm not talking about voice search. I can tap the microphone icon and get search results that way but that isn't what the manual says or what I'm talking about.
Did you elect to turn on Google Now at the first boot? If not, find it in settings and tick the box
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
Dyonas said:
I was looking through the Nexus 7 manual in the Play Books app and one of the things it says for gestures is swiping up from the bottom on any screen and saying the word "Google" then your search will search for you. I've swiped up and said it, swiped then paused briefly before saying it but nothing works. Is this something that was taken out with the 4.1.1 update or has it always been missing? Failing that am I doing something wrong?
To clarify things I'm not talking about voice search. I can tap the microphone icon and get search results that way but that isn't what the manual says or what I'm talking about.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm guessing you're not based in the US? Google now is pretty crippled when not using the US version. One of the missing features (at least in the UK) is the ability to activate the voice search by saying Google, also the pretty search results with pictures etc are not there too.
kboya said:
Did you elect to turn on Google Now at the first boot? If not, find it in settings and tick the box
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup, I liked the idea of it when I heard about it so I enabled it.
Rovman said:
I'm guessing you're not based in the US? Google now is pretty crippled when not using the US version. One of the missing features (at least in the UK) is the ability to activate the voice search by saying Google, also the pretty search results with pictures etc are not there too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This seems to be the problem then. Curses! Thanks for letting me know.
I am US based, and have been unsuccessful with the "say google" voice command as well.
I launch google now.
I say google, and it starts listening for search and I can talk to it.
Works fine for me.
thats because in the second update on the nexus 7 it was taken out due to the court case!
but heres a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762570
movieaddict said:
thats because in the second update on the nexus 7 it was taken out due to the court case!
but heres a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762570
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's a US court case though and only applies to the US. It's similar to how I can buy a Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1 if I want to regardless of what happens in the US. I would hope that Google would leave it in for all non-US countries.
Bielinsk, have you updated? Are you using the stock ROM? If you're using the stock ROM and have updated then something else must be causing it. If you haven't updated then it's clearly been removed.
Swipe from Home button, "Google", "[query]".
Works fine. Hello from Canada.
Sent from my Nexus 7 on the XDA app. GO CANADA GO
You have to activate it in the settings menu.
Works now, I must have been doing it wrong
CooLoserTech said:
You have to activate it in the settings menu.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Where exactly in the settings menu? Google Now's settings? General settings? I've looked in all of them and unless I'm missing something it should be enabled.
Same question for those saying it works, have you updated? Stock or custom ROM? I'm on 4.1.1 stock
It worked for me in the UK, but not with the detail of USA
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
kboya said:
It worked for me in the UK, but not with the detail of USA
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just a bit of info i have found from research -
If you're in the UK and the pictures aren't displaying, you have to tick - 'search from google.com' in the Google Now settings, and not use google.co.uk.
Same thing stands if you want the cute female voice - You have to change the language to English US
Hope this helps
p.s - the only thing i am stuck with is how to set up 'my locations' - i have enabled this within the Google Now settings but on the Maps app, i cannot add 'my locations', which makes that part of Google Now pretty much useless. I want Google Now to give me prompts to leave, etc etc, its a pretty nifty thing they showed off. Anyone know?
To set your Home and Work locations you have to go to maps.google.com (or .co.uk or wherever you live) on your PC and log into your Google account. You should see the links under the Create Map button on the left.
--
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Come on guys.. I've asked a simple question of anyone saying "it works" but none of you are replying. I'm glad it works for you but I need to know if you're using stock ROM and 4.1 or 4.1.1 so I can troubleshoot. Help me out
Dyonas said:
Come on guys.. I've asked a simple question of anyone saying "it works" but none of you are replying. I'm glad it works for you but I need to know if you're using stock ROM and 4.1 or 4.1.1 so I can troubleshoot. Help me out
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It works for me and I'm running 4.1.1 with the 2nd small "D" update. It also worked before and after the first update to 4.1.1
To turn on the "Say Google" feature open Google Now
Click Menu(3 dots lower right corner) -> Settings -> Voice -> Hotword Detection
Enjoy
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
movieaddict said:
thats because in the second update on the nexus 7 it was taken out due to the court case!
but heres a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762570
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Second update on the Nexus 7 doesn't remove any search functionality. I can still search and see results for apps and contacts when searching from the search box. This issue only applies the the Sprint version of the Galaxy Nexus.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
dch921 said:
It works for me and I'm running 4.1.1 with the 2nd small "D" update. It also worked before and after the first update to 4.1.1
To turn on the "Say Google" feature open Google Now
Click Menu(3 dots lower right corner) -> Settings -> Voice -> Hotword Detection
Enjoy
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well that confirms it, I have no "Hotword Detection" in Voice. At least now I know where it should be and I can quiz other UK peoples, thanks!
Dyonas said:
Well that confirms it, I have no "Hotword Detection" in Voice. At least now I know where it should be and I can quiz other UK peoples, thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here's what I have found
UK nexus 7 on stock 4.1.1
Voice language set to English UK
Search set to Google.co.UK
Offline files for voice recognition for UK English downloaded.
No hot word option in menu. No response to "Google"
Change language to English us at Google now. Change search to Google.com exit from Google now go back in Google hot word works menu option there.
BUT voice recognition way off (was almost perfect before)
Change language back to English UK, exit, back into Google now, no response to "Google" no menu hot word option.
Seems to be the language rather than the search that triggers it.
Guess it will come when they have analysed enough voices to get it right. Although it seems a strange thing to leave out given the rest of the recognition stuff works OK.
When I use the Waze app, I like to use voice commands to make reports of Hazards and things that I see while driving. Unfortunately comma many times when I use voice input it thinks it can't hear me when it is clearly responding to sound and seems to act like it is opening to voice prompts at the same time that overlap each other. Anyone else using this app have this difficulty on the Nexus 6 p? I don't know if it's this phone or the application. So far no response from the Developers. Other apps where I use voice input such as texting and creating this post seem to work just fine.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk