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Voice Settings unavailable?

I was trying to try google translate, and then it told me the voice engine was not installed.. I proceeded to download eSpeak from the Market, but when I tried to enable it on Settings, I realized there are no voice input and output settings section!!
Have anybody been able to install voice engines successfully?

I installed Svox and there is an option to go to TTS settings there but when you click it it force closes settings. I'd like to find a workaround as well.
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http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/downloads/detail?name=tts_3.1_market.apk&can=2&q=
I got TTS to work w Translate, by installing the above.
HTH....
Jim

For voice input, I think I installed Google Voice Search from market.
It's kind of too bad that Google doesn't tell you how to tie all of their different technologies together ...
Jim

jimcpl said:
http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/downloads/detail?name=tts_3.1_market.apk&can=2&q=
I got TTS to work w Translate, by installing the above.
HTH....
Jim
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Thanks Jim.. I will try it.. unfortunately, voice search is not the same as voice synthesis.. Hope this will fix it..

Desperus said:
Thanks Jim.. I will try it.. unfortunately, voice search is not the same as voice synthesis.. Hope this will fix it..
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Hi,
Maybe I wasn't clear.
To get voice INPUT, I installed Google Voice Search.
Then, I could talk INTO Google Translate, but it wouldn't "speak" the translations.
Then I installed the TTS extension I mentioned, to get speech OUTPUT (TTS).
In the end, I had to install:
- Google Voice Search
- Google Translate
- Google espeak (Translate asked for this, I think)
- Google TTS extension
Jim

Ultimate Translator

Dear android devs,
Please make an app that uses a combo of speech to text and google translations, and than it reads back out. I.e say hello in english into phone, user selects eng-spanish, phone says hola
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Umm, that already exists. Its called Google Translate. If the speech input option is not present, you need to install Voice Search from the Market.

[Q] Market text in Japanese

My market text is all in japanese. I can't find a setting to change it to english.
My language settings are US - English in the settings menu, my gmail account is also set to US - English.
Any ideas?

All your apps are in japanese??.....some of my apps description have also become in jap......they weren't b4.......is dolphin browser in Jap ppl??
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I'm having similar issues too... Very odd

Now...even google maps description is in japanese.....including dolphin browser.......but most of the other apps are in english....
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only the market descriptions are in Japanese for me, I haven't noticed Japanese text within apps.

Offline voice typing won't work

Hi all,
I got my n7 yesterday, and it is the best device I have ever used.
But if I turn the wifi off, and try and type something with the offline voice typing, it just says "failed to reach Google" or something like that.
I read that the n7 is supposed to have the feature.
I downloaded the offline voice pack In settings, but no luck, it still didn't work.
Please could someone help me, as I am often away from wifi, and as such I would really like to have that feature
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Corey
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It appears you must be connected via WiFi for the Type Text by Speaking to work. From the Nexus 7 Guidebook page 51.
You can use voice input to type text by speaking. This feature uses Google’s speech-recognition service, so your tablet must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to use it.
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bennor3814 said:
It appears you must be connected via WiFi for the Type Text by Speaking to work. From the Nexus 7 Guidebook page 51.
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But what is the offline voice typing then? Why did googke advertise it?
Cheers
Corey
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fishingfon said:
But what is the offline voice typing then? Why did googke advertise it?
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Voice dictation, which they advertised, does work offline. For example, if you have Google Voice installed you can respond to a SMS with voice but obviously you won't be able to send it without data. Also works with Gmail. Just confirmed it.

You need to install your language. Settings, language and input, Google Voice Typing, Download offline speech recognition

Not even being able to do basic voice actions offline is getting annoying. They need to address this. My phone can do it in airplane mode on ICS, there's no reason you shouldn't have limited voice input capability with no connection on the Nexus 7.
@AMoosa, the Nexus 7 already comes with that; at least, mine did. It's already installed, size is 22MB.

Any other ideas?
New Nexus 7, out of the box, under Settings/ language and input/ Google Voice Typing/ settings/ Download offline speech recognition: English Language offline pack shows as already installed; so there is no "download" button.
It works fine when wifi is on. Turn off wifi, and it says "Can't reach Google at the moment".
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Nexus 7 offline speech recognition - getting it to work
1badger said:
New Nexus 7, out of the box, under Settings/ language and input/ Google Voice Typing/ settings/ Download offline speech recognition: English Language offline pack shows as already installed; so there is no "download" button.
It works fine when wifi is on. Turn off wifi, and it says "Can't reach Google at the moment".
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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After stumbling around on this trying to get it to work offline, I found TWO more key bits of information to make it happen.
Settings
Language & Input
Under KEYBOARD & INPUT METHODS section,
Click the SETTINGS icon to the right of "Android Keyboard"
Input Languages MUST BE SET TO "English (US)" (I assume to match my downloaded language file).
Ensure the checkbox is enabled beside "Google voice typing", and set to "automatic" (it can't be a mismatch from the "Android keyboard" setting or again it won't work).
None of this seems to be a problem if you've got your overall language setting to be English (United States) and are using the default "use system language" option for Android Keyboard. In other words, it's tweaked to work fine for US users, but others need to fiddle.
Steve

Voice commands and google now cards not working in EU

Hi, i've been searching the nexus forum through but haven't found any solution that would work on my tablet.
My problem is this: i bought the UK nexus 7 and am using it in the scandinavia. whenever i try to assign a voice command like "set alarm to 21:30" or "show pictures of cyanogenmod", it just does a google search and shows the results. I can't see any of the cards nor can i use any of the voice commands.
I tried switching the tablet language to english (US and UK) and install all the offline voice recognition libraries. I've also gone through the google now setup and allowed all location information etc.
In another thread it was suggested that i should get a trial of google apps for business and from there switch on the google one for my tablet, but this seems completely ridiculous (and it won't solve the fact that also the voice commands are not working).
Does anyone have a hint on what i should try next to get the commands to work and cards to show?

Works for me when it finally understands me. Settings are English US and it will play tracks, tell me the weather, search apps and set alarms from what I've tried so far.

Justdoit2u said:
Works for me when it finally understands me. Settings are English US and it will play tracks, tell me the weather, search apps and set alarms from what I've tried so far.
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the problem here is not that it would not understand me. the problem is that it understands completely well the sentence "set alarm at 21:30" but it does a google search of it! whatever command i try from the google voice commands list at google help center, it just does a google search. it does not set alarms, it does not show pictures of androids, it does not show me a weather card. i just get a google search result for "weather in xyz"
i find this puzzling

dolorem said:
the problem here is not that it would not understand me. the problem is that it understands completely well the sentence "set alarm at 21:30" but it does a google search of it! whatever command i try from the google voice commands list at google help center, it just does a google search. it does not set alarms, it does not show pictures of androids, it does not show me a weather card. i just get a google search result for "weather in xyz"
i find this puzzling
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I'm in the UK, but as long as the device region is set to US (Settings > Language & Input), it works fine. I can say "remind me to drop a coil at 8 O'Clock tomorrow" and I get an alarm set, or "Show me pictures of black cats", and lots of kittehs come up...

You lot not downloaded the UK English pack?

That's strange, if I'm using the french command for "Open Gmail" for example, it does a google search of "open Gmail". I even tried the english sentence, and it does the same thing.
I changed my phone language, tried "Open Gmail", it does a google search and then, says Opening apps and Gmail starts !
I'm using CyanogenMod 10.1 M1

AW: Voice commands and google now cards not working in EU
You have to change the system language too.
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filipathtc said:
You have to change the system language too.
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I know that, but I don't want. Is it a bug, is there plan to correct this ? Is it a Google issue or is it CM ?

gensor said:
I know that, but I don't want. Is it a bug, is there plan to correct this ? Is it a Google issue or is it CM ?
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It's not a bug, it was meant like this. Google now needs that you use a us or Canadian English as the system language. I would like that there was one in French though.
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Even though 'Language and Input Settings' have something to do with this, you also need to change 'ACCOUNTS AND PRIVACY' settings in Google Now settings. You need to enable 'Google location settings'. If already enabled, try also switching on 'Google Location Reporting' > 'Location Reporting' > it should be 'On for this device'. Hope this helps!