So I have been playing around with Iris and so far it seems to way better than S voice. Does anyone know if Samsung plans on making it better at all because right now its way behind the other voice apps.
The best ones I have found so far is Iris then AIVC. Jeanie is ok to
Just for commands, I use Vlingo
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Has anyone been able to find a good voice application? Any app I find that supports that input all say there is no speech engine installed, and I can't seem to find one on the market. I've heard the standard is google voice search? Is that correct? Because I can't seem to find that either...
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Same here :/ Now I'm starting to wonder if SE screwed us out of something all other phones have
This thread has all the information you need to know. Have it on my x10 and it works for the most part. A little iffy on some words but to be expected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=692412
Hi All,
I'm new to android and have just purchased the Samsung Galaxy S. Can anyone tell me if it has voice to text like the nexus one or desire ?
yes under settings you can enable it.. but app has to support it.
Hmm i can't seem to find it. I want to be able to use speech to text for things like SMS messages.
I can see an app called "Voice Text" in the market - do I need to buy this first ? It's got terrible reviews.
I cannot find it either.
The Nexus One came with a voice recognition keyboard and voice search. Were these Android 2.1 standard or were they specific to the N1?
dayloon said:
Hi All,
I'm new to android and have just purchased the Samsung Galaxy S. Can anyone tell me if it has voice to text like the nexus one or desire ?
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I want to know as well. I think the Evo's feature on this is great, to speak out a text reply if driving is great.
My guess is they are 2.1 standard (I read voice input EVERYWHERE is a feature). However Samsung have replaced the standard android keyboard with their own, and Swype does not have that feature (yet, I looked it up and they said they will be adding the microphone button very soon)
You may be able to install the default keyboard for android?
Supposedly this is a feature of Android 2.1, but for some reason Samsung seems to have left it out.
I purchased Better Keyboard, which allows you to enable the mic/input button on the keyboard, but when you press it you get an error message that your phone does not have the voice recognition engine installed.
You can use the Samsung Apps on the SGS to install VLingo for free (it's $9.99 in the Market), but you have to use the crappy vlingo keyboard to get the mic button that works.
Very disappointed to see this feature missing from the SGS. Supposedly the SGS version of Swype is getting a mic input button, so I wonder if the newer JWM2 ROM floating around has that in Swype and includes voice recognition.
Edit: this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712100 has a link to a working version of the voice search. I've installed it and it works.
Some are reporting that installing Google Search by Voice from the Market corrects this issue. I can't validate since that app doesn't show in the Market on either my Nexus One or my Galaxy S.
Google Voice search won't launch android music player. If I use the right command "listen to", it offers music player as a choice but then doesn't pass the query to the player-- I select android music player and it starts playing a random song.
Also, when using a bluetooth earpiece, pushing the call button brings up Google Voice Dialer (and not google search). It doesn't respond to anything I say at that point. How do I get the native Google Voice assistant to come up instead?
I'm running MDOB 1.8.
I just moved from Iphone so it would be great to get these quite basic features to work on my S4...
Starmanj
Why don't you use S-Voice--just asking--it does all I need extremely well
I'm trying to get rid of the bloatware. The S4 is unacceptably slow until you strip the junk out. And I thought Google Voice Assist was much better than Siri-- but it seems to be broken on many phones right now.
rugmankc said:
Why don't you use S-Voice--just asking--it does all I need extremely well
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Interesting, mine is extremely smooth and fast even before I rooted. I still have not removed any apps. It was a long process to decide to root and flash twrp as things were going very well.
Did you set animations to .5 and check disable hw overlays in development section of settings/more?
As far as S-Voice it is far better than any other voice to text I ever used. Esp when speaking addresses in Maps--
Hope you get it sorted
I moved from Iphone this spring. I am using MDOB now. Samsung Svoice never seems to get my voice commands right; can't find the right contact and totally gets my music voice commands wrong. For example, always thinks I'm asking for "back" when I say "beck"-- the only thing in my library.
Siri was an order of magnitude better at all this. Google is better at general voice recognition, but doesn't work with AT&T/Samsung. I tried and get a google dialer popup and it won't control the Samsung music app.
Should I go to Google Edition? Will Google correctly work over bluetooth headset for music and calls? Is it more accurate than Svoice?
Help!
starmanj said:
I moved from Iphone this spring. I am using MDOB now. Samsung Svoice never seems to get my voice commands right; can't find the right contact and totally gets my music voice commands wrong. For example, always thinks I'm asking for "back" when I say "beck"-- the only thing in my library.
Siri was an order of magnitude better at all this. Google is better at general voice recognition, but doesn't work with AT&T/Samsung. I tried and get a google dialer popup and it won't control the Samsung music app.
Should I go to Google Edition? Will Google correctly work over bluetooth headset for music and calls? Is it more accurate than Svoice?
Help!
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When you refer to "Google is better at general voice recognition, but doesn't work with AT&T/Samsung.", what specifically are you referring to? I use Google Now and it's voice recognition and it works perfectly fine for me? Google Now is integrated in the new Google app. You can also access it from holding the menu haptic button.
Google Now does not control anything. Does not control music, texting, etc. on a Samsung/ATT device.
So my question, and I guess this is the wrong place to ask it since nobody seems to know here, is will AOSP or plain vanilla google ROMs do as good a job as Siri at controlling music via bluetooth headphones, texting, etc. etc.?
One of the things I liked best about my Note 2 was the turn by turn voice. Very nice, soothing female voice. In fact, I never used directions on Waze because the Google voice was much better. It's the same voice used on Google Now.
The Note 3, however, uses a Samsung TTS voice that is simply horrible. In fact, I'd say horrible would be a compliment. Very nasally and computer-like. What happened to the Google female voice? She's still there on Google Now, how do I get her to be there on navigation? I'd hate to think that Waze is the best I can do.
Help me, please!
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One of the things I liked best about my Note 2 was the turn by turn voice. Very nice, soothing female voice. In fact, I never used directions on Waze because the Google voice was much better. It's the same voice used on Google Now.
The Note 3, however, uses a Samsung TTS voice that is simply horrible. In fact, I'd say horrible would be a compliment. Very nasally and computer-like. What happened to the Google female voice? She's still there on Google Now, how do I get her to be there on navigation? I'd hate to think that Waze is the best I can do.
Help me, please!
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go download google maps, problem solved
2swizzle said:
go download google maps, problem solved
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Google Maps are already installed. It's within Maps that I'm hearing this terrible voice. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling Google Maps. Same result, no change.
i found that if you install the "HD" version of the voice through Samsung Apps it makes it much better. you have to go to text to speech options then try install voice
TabGuy said:
One of the things I liked best about my Note 2 was the turn by turn voice. Very nice, soothing female voice. In fact, I never used directions on Waze because the Google voice was much better. It's the same voice used on Google Now.
The Note 3, however, uses a Samsung TTS voice that is simply horrible. In fact, I'd say horrible would be a compliment. Very nasally and computer-like. What happened to the Google female voice? She's still there on Google Now, how do I get her to be there on navigation? I'd hate to think that Waze is the best I can do.
Help me, please!
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install ivonna tts it free and much better that all tts-es out there. kendra is the american english version. I have tried some other languages they work nice.
Thanks for the tips, guys. I installed the HD female voice and the Ivonna American English voice. They're OK but neither one of them is anywhere near as good as the Google Now voice. Is there no way to use the Google Now voice?
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Thanks for the tips, guys. I installed the HD female voice and the Ivonna American English voice. They're OK but neither one of them is anywhere near as good as the Google Now voice. Is there no way to use the Google Now voice?
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So far from what I have seen in other threads for other carriers, it will require root to install google TTS voice.