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Google Navigation.
Phone starts talking loudly, slowly, in drawn out very low pitch male voice.
It starts saying what sound like technical things, and then says some URL's?! Even saying " h t t p " and stuff.
I haven't attempted travelling with it, and the voice keeps repeating its codes after a bit.
It's so strange it feels like some ridiculous virus or malware.
Maybe the 2.2 RUU we got is malicious?
Help I'm scared!
deusfaux said:
RUU to 2.2
Google Navigation.
Phone starts talking loudly, slowly, in drawn out very low pitch male voice.
It starts saying what sound like technical things, and then says some URL's?! Even saying " h t t p " and stuff.
I haven't attempted travelling with it, and the voice keeps repeating its codes after a bit.
It's so strange it feels like some ridiculous virus or malware.
Maybe the 2.2 RUU we got is malicious?
Help I'm scared!
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Hahahaha! Sounds like fun.. How do you activate voice navigation?
by hitting the built in navigation app...?
it's always been a voice enabled navigation app, hasn't it?
It's not fun. It's telling me URL strings and being scary!
this is one of the URLs it says
http://www.wfree.org/2001/10/synthesis
WTF?!
Sent by me to you, to fill up more than 10 characters.
Have you installed any text-to-speech libraries, and checking the option to always use those settings in your Settings for every text-to-speech thingy?
Isn't the default an American lady? Talks normally, not weird ****...
I installed the recommended one for Google Translate - eSpeak TTS.
But I even tried changing it back to pico and it didnt make a difference.
Actually right now, using the Listen to an example thing, enabling the checkbox for eSpeak TTS does make it sound like the guy I'm describing.
unchecking it sounds like a more normal female voice.
However, none of that would explain WHAT the guy is saying or why
Have you Clear Google Maps data & eSpeak TTS data?
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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
Ever since I got my S7 Edge replacement from the Note 7, Google Voice is being troublesome. I can't get it to recognize my voice correctly, well sometimes. For example if I ask it to list "nearest restaurants near me" it will search for "Near Me" like if it didn't understand my first two words. Or other times It says "if you said something, I didn't understand you". I tried uninstalling and\or cleaning cache from Google apps, but doesn't fix the problem. Can this be a software problem or the phone Mic being defective?
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Ever since I got my S7 Edge replacement from the Note 7, Google Voice is being troublesome. I can't get it to recognize my voice correctly, well sometimes. For example if I ask it to list "nearest restaurants near me" it will search for "Near Me" like if it didn't understand my first two words. Or other times It says "if you said something, I didn't understand you". I tried uninstalling and\or cleaning cache from Google apps, but doesn't fix the problem. Can this be a software problem or the phone Mic being defective?
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Are you saying "Ok google, nearest restaurants near me" or "Ok google..." *Wait for prompt* "nearest restaurants near me"?
I don't know if the wait would help, I know that I wait until I hear it make the noise before I continue to say anything. Give that a shot and see if it helps.
You can test out your microphone but I don't see a need to if you use the phone to talk to others and they don't have any problem hearing you.
What launcher are you using? I use Google now myself and I don't need the pause but am just used to waiting in case it didn't hear me when I say the command.
Also try going into Settings -> Applications -> Default Applications -> Phone Assistance App and see if you have Google App as the chosen app. Not sure if that would help but it's worth a shot.
I am definitely waiting until it gives the tone and then speak right after. I just noticed that the delay is on the Google app and not when using voice typing on the Samsung keyboard which brings up Google Voices well.
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I am definitely waiting until it gives the tone and then speak right after. I just noticed that the delay is on the Google app and not when using voice typing on the Samsung keyboard which brings up Google Voices well.
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I am having a similar Issue on my S7 Edge. The "Ok Google" prompt works just fine but then the mic cannot hear me at all. If I am on a Bluetooth device it works just fine and all other voice apps including the Google Assistant in Allo work fine. I have done a factory reset, I have disabled S-Voice and all other apps that use voice work just fine. I am at a loss at this point.
rbdavis76 said:
I am having a similar Issue on my S7 Edge. The "Ok Google" prompt works just fine but then the mic cannot hear me at all. If I am on a Bluetooth device it works just fine and all other voice apps including the Google Assistant in Allo work fine. I have done a factory reset, I have disabled S-Voice and all other apps that use voice work just fine. I am at a loss at this point.
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Make sure the Google App has permission to access your microphone. I would assume it does if the hotword detection works but still worth a shot.
I found a workaround that seems to work better on detection....
Have the phone at a distance and the top mic underneath your mouth level. Seems to give me less false positives this way, I have no idea why. Hope this helps.
What I did was uninstall the update for voice recognition and re download it. Helped immediately.
csstamatin said:
What I did was uninstall the update for voice recognition and re download it. Helped immediately.
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can you explain how to do that. im having the same problem for a while now and it really irritating
ajkron said:
can you explain how to do that. im having the same problem for a while now and it really irritating
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Sure, go into setting, then language and input. From there click on google voice typing then click offline recognition and u should be able to uninstall then reinstall the software for it. Hope that helps.
Hello all!
I am facing a very annoying issue:
For questions like "what's the weather?" Google Assistant/Google Now only shows the result without saying anything.
Similar behaviour when asking "drive me home": navigation starts without any announcement.
On the contrary, Google Assistant speaks/answers normally to phrases such as: "tell me a joke".
I've already tried any solution found on the Internet with no luck (check output, clear data, uninstall google search, etc.).
I'm pretty sure it's not account-related because I'm using the same account on a Nexus 5 without any problem.
anyone in a similar situation ?
Cheers,
Tony
tonycapuozzo said:
Hello all!
I am facing a very annoying issue:
For questions like "what's the weather?" Google Assistant/Google Now only shows the result without saying anything.
Similar behaviour when asking "drive me home": navigation starts without any announcement.
On the contrary, Google Assistant speaks/answers normally to phrases such as: "tell me a joke".
I've already tried any solution found on the Internet with no luck (check output, clear data, uninstall google search, etc.).
I'm pretty sure it's not account-related because I'm using the same account on a Nexus 5 without any problem.
anyone in a similar situation ?
Cheers,
Tony
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yep. I went through all the settings, and no joy. had to quit, if anyone found something to workaround, would be great
Same here. I have this issue after the September update
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When I tell "Go home" to assistant it replies me with going home or similar and opens maps
Happy to hear I'm not alone ... so to speak..
I guess, we must wait for a bugfix, then...
Cheers,
Tony
Try to delet voice model in google setting ..voice ...and then again retrain voice model ....that solved problem for me
I'm also having this issue. I've tried installing text to speech data, changed speech output to on... And factory reset. Nothing works. If anyone found a solution, do update here. Not pleased with the phone ?
try deleting user data of google play services and google app
My MI5S is the same.
varun.gid said:
try deleting user data of google play services and google app
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Done. Nothing new!
I also have the same problem, the assistant is giving audio feedback for a lot of queries and command.
Same here. Thanks for confirming that i am not the only one.
Might be the wrong thread to point it out but "ok google" by voice still gets triggered hence the detection is turned off. Is that normal? Can anyone else confirm this? I personally hate the feature, imagine your mic is always on just to catch those two words all the time. It's not the tin foil hat thing but the resource it uses for this feature ...
Cant reproduce it. I have it disabled on both on Google options and nova launcher
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Same issue here but...
You can use the phrase 'tell me about my day' it will announce the weather.
Ppfawade said:
Same issue here but...
You can use the phrase 'tell me about my day' it will announce the weather.
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LOL. This is called cheating!
Also I confirm the problem.i tried everything.
Me too
I have that problem too on my OnePlus 3T running AOSPA.
Before I had the same issue when I was running FreedomOS.
I'm pretty sure that the logcat in the following screenshots shows the reason for it.
Unfortunately I can't find anything useful about it using Google...
I also think that this problem occurs only/mostly on Chinese phones, because most of the rare Google results refer to Chinese phones.
I can't find a post of others experiencing this: It seems that after my (stock, not rooted) 5 got the OTA Oreo upgrade (and the second OTA didn't fix it) the Maps nav voice is skipping words (or parts of words) in her directions. Like 'take the next... and 'right' will be missing, or "in 1/4 ... then mile and other words might be missing.
Since Maps is baked in, I've only been able to "delete upgrades" to Maps and then reinstall (after deleting its cache and data).
Has anyone heard of this. If not, and just my bad luck, are there directions for Completely deleting all Maps files so I can do a clean install?
Thank you!!
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I can't find a post of others experiencing this: It seems that after my (stock, not rooted) 5 got the OTA Oreo upgrade (and the second OTA didn't fix it) the Maps nav voice is skipping words (or parts of words) in her directions. Like 'take the next... and 'right' will be missing, or "in 1/4 ... then mile and other words might be missing.
Since Maps is baked in, I've only been able to "delete upgrades" to Maps and then reinstall (after deleting its cache and data).
Has anyone heard of this. If not, and just my bad luck, are there directions for Completely deleting all Maps files so I can do a clean install?
Thank you!!
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Go into the accessibility menu in ROM settings and make sure the TTS (text to speech) enabled is from Google. If you don't have Google TTS on your phone you can download it from the Play Store and then make it the default TTS in accesibility settings.
Hi @djroese33! This is not the correct sub-forum for the issue you're facing. Please make sure that you're posting in the right sub-forum (in your case, it should be the Questions & Answers sub-forum) which increases the chances of you getting the right information.
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Go into the accessibility menu in ROM settings and make sure the TTS (text to speech) enabled is from Google. If you don't have Google TTS on your phone you can download it from the Play Store and then make it the default TTS in accesibility settings.
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I had done that, but thanks.
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Has anyone heard of this.
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This has always happened to me when I'm in my vehicle with Bluetooth active, but not selected as the audio source. For example, Bluetooth is active and connected to the head unit for phone calls, but I'm listening to a game on the radio, any map directions from the phone are as you describe. However, if I'm streaming music from the phone and it's the designated audio source, directions are complete. FWIW, this behavior predates my OP5. It also occurred with my N6P.
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This has always happened to me when I'm in my vehicle with Bluetooth active, but not selected as the audio source. For example, Bluetooth is active and connected to the head unit for phone calls, but I'm listening to a game on the radio, any map directions from the phone are as you describe. However, if I'm streaming music from the phone and it's the designated audio source, directions are complete. FWIW, this behavior predates my OP5. It also occurred with my N6P.
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Thanks. I was already setup with it as a source. Worked perfectly until the Oreo update. Anyway, it was definitely Bluetooth related.. I completely wiped/reset the phone, and still had issue. Then I tried it without Bluetooth, and everything was fine (hadn't thought of that before reloading). Tried all sorts of settings, reconnecting to the car, etc. Finally thought of switching the voice to 'Female 1'. NO idea why, but all is fine.
Rooted, installed Nova, disabled all Amazon bloatware. Kindle working great, only issue is Google Search will not respond with a voice. I'll ask what the weather is and it simply displays the result without telling me with the voice "It's 100 degrees and sunny." I'll ask using the mic button/Voice Search "who won the allstar game", no sound, no voice, just displays the answer. Have the latest google installed, playstore working fine, framework, etc. Got everything updated.
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Rooted, installed Nova, disabled all Amazon bloatware. Kindle working great, only issue is Google Search will not respond with a voice. I'll ask what the weather is and it simply displays the result without telling me with the voice "It's 100 degrees and sunny." I'll ask using the mic button/Voice Search "who won the allstar game", no sound, no voice, just displays the answer. Have the latest google installed, playstore working fine, framework, etc. Got everything updated.
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It's a bug in the Google app. I had the same issue with past updates. Whatever that last update did they broke the sound again.
butthump said:
Rooted, installed Nova, disabled all Amazon bloatware. Kindle working great, only issue is Google Search will not respond with a voice. I'll ask what the weather is and it simply displays the result without telling me with the voice "It's 100 degrees and sunny." I'll ask using the mic button/Voice Search "who won the allstar game", no sound, no voice, just displays the answer. Have the latest google installed, playstore working fine, framework, etc. Got everything updated.
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I figured it out. Turn on Nova in accessibility options. Then say ok google.
I followed your directions and OK Google now works. I also hear the beep, but it still will not respond through a voice telling me what the weather is, or who won the ballgame. It just displays the information on the search app. Again no voice telling me if it's going to rain, or who won last night's game, Etc. I greatly appreciate you looking into this. So do you think it's still a glitch? I really like to hear the voice telling me stuff, I'm too lazy to read the info, LOL.
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I followed your directions and OK Google now works. I also hear the beep, but it still will not respond through a voice telling me what the weather is, or who won the ballgame. It just displays the information on the search app. Again no voice telling me if it's going to rain, or who won last night's game, Etc. I greatly appreciate you looking into this. So do you think it's still a glitch? I really like to hear the voice telling me stuff, I'm too lazy to read the info, LOL.
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Tap Google app > three lines bottom right > settings > voice. Make sure speech output is on. Also make sure you have offline speech downloaded. From there tap settings under assistant at the top > tablet and make sure thats all set.
Speech output is on, offline speech is downloaded in US English, I turned on Nova and accessibility settings, and it definitely turns on and beeps when I say OK Google but I still do not get a voice response when I ask any question. The Google app isn't your default Assist app. I'm getting that are on the Google Voice match settings. I have already deleted Alexa completely from the phone. Using ES File Explorer Pro, with root. I have also enabled Google through ADB and disabled Alexa through ADB.
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Speech output is on, offline speech is downloaded in US English, I turned on Nova and accessibility settings, and it definitely turns on and beeps when I say OK Google but I still do not get a voice response when I ask any question. The Google app isn't your default Assist app. I'm getting that are on the Google Voice match settings. I have already deleted Alexa completely from the phone. Using ES File Explorer Pro, with root. I have also enabled Google through ADB and disabled Alexa through ADB.
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You need to follow this guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/guide-enable-google-assistant-ok-google-t3740145
You basically need to download settings database editor and make the edits to secure settings. Make sure to grant settings database editor the proper permissions.
Thanks Dragonfire, started with a brand new Kindle from scratch. I accidentally bricked my old one. Long story short I started with a new Kindle HD 10, rooted, installed all the Google apps, followed all of the directions from the guide... I still do not get speech output, the Google voice does not give me the answer that I asked for. Only displays the answer. Maybe it is a glitch as you originally suggested. I disabled Alexa as the guide says, and I was able to do the voice match and everything. Google does not speak the answers. I only get the famous Google beep. And that's it. The sweet lady Google Voice stays silent.
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Thanks Dragonfire, started with a brand new Kindle from scratch. I accidentally bricked my old one. Long story short I started with a new Kindle HD 10, rooted, installed all the Google apps, followed all of the directions from the guide... I still do not get speech output, the Google voice does not give me the answer that I asked for. Only displays the answer. Maybe it is a glitch as you originally suggested. I disabled Alexa as the guide says, and I was able to do the voice match and everything. Google does not speak the answers. I only get the famous Google beep. And that's it. The sweet lady Google Voice stays silent.
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Sorry I can't help more. I've not had this issue aside from the sound issue i had mentioned earlier, which was fixed by activating nova in accessibility.