Hey, it seems that one of the things stripped out of the Blackhole rom is the voice synthesizer for Google Nav. I can't for the life of me remember where to go in the market to download this. Does anyone remember? It's annoying the hell out of me that Nav doesn't have the voice directions.
Same issue here. This probably belongs in that thread too.
Yeah, that's a good idea, I'll put that in the thread.
You Lose voice navigation if you get rid of the text-to-speech services. So check your /system/apps/ to make sure you have PicoTts.apk and TtsService.apk, if you don't have them that's the cause of your problem.
I have those apks and the voice isn't working on Google Navigation. Any other suggestions?
I had to download something from the market. I think it was google voice search.
I got my problem fixed. I deleted the SVOX folder on my SD Card.
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The other day I was riding with a friend and he had downloaded a new voice to his navigation system. That got me wondering if I could change the voice on my phone for google navigation. Is there any way possible to change the navigation voice to anything other than english and spanish? I want to put something besides the generic voice that comes stock with the phone on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I think SVOX TTS will change the voice.
crookshanks said:
I think SVOX TTS will change the voice.
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That's close to what I want to do, but I'm looking more like getting something like he had. He had a couple, but one was Cartman. It was hilarious listening to it, especially if you missed your turn.
Other than changing system wide TTS, I'm not sure if there's a way to change the voice. Is your friend's navigation an app for his phone or is a stand alone gps device? My Garmin and my girlfriend's TomTom both have a bunch of funny voices too. I just wasn't able to find any of those options for google nav, but it would be nice since I never break out the Garmin anymore except on long trips.
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Other than changing system wide TTS, I'm not sure if there's a way to change the voice. Is your friend's navigation an app for his phone or is a stand alone gps device? My Garmin and my girlfriend's TomTom both have a bunch of funny voices too. I just wasn't able to find any of those options for google nav, but it would be nice since I never break out the Garmin anymore except on long trips.
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It was a stand alone gps. That got me wondering if I could do the same on my phone, but so far I can't find anything on how to change it.
A lot of the the stand alone GPS devices have different voices. I dug into this a while back when I first got a moto droid and wasn't able to do much with the voices. My daughter (3 months at the time) started crying every time the google voice GPS would talk
It was kind of funny but got old real quick so I just turned off the sound for GPS.
Fyi - I've not had the best of luck with the svox tts application
Is anyone using google maps not getting voice prompts...only beeps that tell you when your turns are coming up? Its really frustrating having to look at the screen to know where to go.
You can download an app from the market that will talk on google maps. If you are on 2.2 then one should already be installed for you.
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I'm on 2.2.1(EB13). it was working and then I reset my phone because of gps taking forever...I uninstalled updates and then re-installed but its still not giving voice guidance.
Thanks musclehead I figured it out. Text to speech engine wasn't installed. I clicked on install voice data and it took me to the market to download the app
Hello guys,
i've already asked this same question when i had an HTC Desire HD but nobody could help me. Maybe i'll be more lucky this time.
I hate the default Text-to-speech output voice engine of Android. In italian, it's simply embarassing. In Google Maps it can't spell basic words like "first", "second" or "exit" and it doesn't read the streets' addresses; it simply says "turn right", "turn left" without specifying in which road i should turn.
So, i've installed Ivona Text-to-speech HQ with his italian male voice "Giorgio" and i think it's great. it speaks in a good italian and in Google Maps it even read the streets' names.
But i have a problem: sometimes Google Maps uses Ivona, sometimes it uses the Android default. Sometimes it uses for all the session the default voice, sometimes it keeps switching between the 2 voices (2 sentences said by Ivona, 1 sentence said by the default etc...).
I hate it.
Is there a way i can fix this? I've even tried to freeze Pico-TTS with Titanium, but it doesn't change a thing.
Thank you in advance!
PicoTTS and GoogleTTS are two different things, try to delete both of them and just use Ivona, there is also the option to set which TTS as default in Accessibility.
eksasol said:
PicoTTS and GoogleTTS are two different things, try to delete both of them and just use Ivona, there is also the option to set which TTS as default in Accessibility.
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Thank you, I didn't understood that Pico a GoogleTTS were different things. I'll try to delete/freeze both of theme, hoping it doesn't break anything.
I've setted Ivona as default TTS in the settings, of course, but it doesn't work anyway.
sberla54 said:
Thank you, I didn't understood that Pico a GoogleTTS were different things. I'll try to delete/freeze both of theme, hoping it doesn't break anything.
I've setted Ivona as default TTS in the settings, of course, but it doesn't work anyway.
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Freezing Pico TTS and Google Text-to-speech Engine seems to work, at least in my first tests.
By the way, i also wrote to the Ivona support and that's what they answered to me. No really useful:
Hello,
Unfortunately this is a Google's mechanism therefore we are not able to fix this issue. Generally the Google Navigation picks the voice with the best responsiveness and that is why Default voice i picked from time to time.
The only thing we can do is to work on the voice performance, hoping this will meet Google's voice pick mechanism.
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Uninstalling Google TTS Engine and Pico TTS seems to work.
Sometime the Google engine's voice comes back for a moment (i don't understand how this is possible), but Ivona TTS always gets preferred.
Odd problem.. I installed a stripped down rom, and now i have no Google voice to text. I installed Google keyboard, and Google search, however no Google typing option in the input settings. Is there an apk i can install to fix this?
after spending all day looking for the solution, I would find the answer 10 minutes after posting about it lol
seems I was missing plain old Google on my phone, found it in the App Store download it and it works like a charm now.
Hi all, how are you.
I wanted to setup Google Assistant's voice as a text-to-speech (TTS) system, it doesn't make sense to me that we have to stay stuck on a very outdated TTS voice when using other Apps. I'm not a developer so I'm hoping someone who is finds this thread and works on it. I believe it shouldn't be very hard, since the wanted code is already on Google App.
I think there are 3 possible ways of achieving this, by making a standalone TTS App (by stripping code from the Google App), by doing something with Tasker (though it's important that the screen could be off, I found ways with Tasker but the screen needs to be on), or by creating a Magisk Module.
Thanks in advance!!
The reason for this is because Google Assistant uses Cloud Services to synthesize the voice. So the default TTS is 100% percent offline so it can't be as good, not a question of being up-to-date or not
(+ The default is Android TTS not Google TTS meaning it's free and not Gapps-Exclusive)
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The reason for this is because Google Assistant uses Cloud Services to synthesize the voice. So the default TTS is 100% percent offline so it can't be as good, not a question of being up-to-date or not
(+ The default is Android TTS not Google TTS meaning it's free and not Gapps-Exclusive)
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Yes, though if someone could adapt the Google assistant App (or make something of sorts) to make that happen, sending the request to Google, as if I asked "Ok Google, Simon says....." for example.
I don't know if that's possible, but I know for sure I can't make something like it.
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Yes, though if someone could adapt the Google assistant App (or make something of sorts) to make that happen, sending the request to Google, as if I asked "Ok Google, Simon says....." for example.
I don't know if that's possible, but I know for sure I can't make something like it.
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It''s called Google Cloud servics and it costs money. because then it would be using their services