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how do i do voice dialing?

hi i was curious if there is a quick way for me to do voice dialing on my evil ?
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RichTJ99 said:
hi i was curious if there is a quick way for me to do voice dialing on my evil ?
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on your evil? Try dialing 666 to enable it.

In all seriousness, is there a way to do voice dialing on the EVO?

Vlingo voice. Find their sight and search cause right now it's by invite.
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We would appreciate it if you focused your testing and feedback on this specific product. Sure, if something else jumps out at you, we're always happy to get your thoughts. But the new functionality is really all around SuperDialer, and that's what we could use your perspective in fine tuning before the public release.
Be thinking of things like:
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Of course the application still has all the same functionality of previous versions - send texts and emails, update Twitter, search the web, voice dial friends from your address book, etc. So please feel free to use those as you normally would. We just want to focus your feedback on the new SuperDialer product.
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Speech to text in any app

Is there any app out there that will allow speech to text from within any application, or whenever you pull up the keybord or something? Preferably multi-lingual.

HTC_IME
You can install the modified HTC_IME keyboard that comes with the speech-to text-button on it, you can make a modified version of it at gimpsta. com/themer/index.php. It uses the google speech thingy, so you should be able to speak in more than English I think.
Then to use it, if you go settings > Language & Keyboard, yuo should be able to eck HTC_IME mod. Then long click any text area > Input method and chose HTC_IME mod.

What is REALLY stupid thing by google/android is that they dont offer a text-to-speech / speech-to-text/ voice search to languages that literally pronounce every single letter the way theyre written. It would be the easiest thing in the world to do. This would offer a solution to many languages (such as Finnish thats heavily ignored by google/android in every other aspect too).
Just my 2cents. Ppl at google plz read this.

wardy666 said:
You can install the modified HTC_IME keyboard that comes with the speech-to text-button on it, you can make a modified version of it at gimpsta. com/themer/index.php. It uses the google speech thingy, so you should be able to speak in more than English I think.
Then to use it, if you go settings > Language & Keyboard, yuo should be able to eck HTC_IME mod. Then long click any text area > Input method and chose HTC_IME mod.
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JuniperFIN said:
What is REALLY stupid thing by google/android is that they dont offer a text-to-speech / speech-to-text/ voice search to languages that literally pronounce every single letter the way theyre written. It would be the easiest thing in the world to do. This would offer a solution to many languages (such as Finnish thats heavily ignored by google/android in every other aspect too).
Just my 2cents. Ppl at google plz read this.
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Thanks for the replies. First, HTC IME does have speech to text, but only in english. Choose another language and the mic button automatically becomes just a simple settings button. SO much for that...
As for Juniper's rant, I agree. I love Google. I mean, I'm a God damn fanboy! I live and breathe Google and have tried to convert all my friends and family and misc forum users to Google services whenever possible. But the fact that they mainly play for the big boys (English speaking countries) and always try their services in a fixed set of countries first, kinda annoys the hell out of me and makes me feel left out. ****, I even went as far as to buy a Nexus One online for almost double their worth because they didn't go on sale in Portugal for a very long time. I just consider myself lucky I was able to sell it on for a small profit despite the already ridiculously high price I had paid for it to begin with. But even after that I opted for a HTC Desire just because I wanted the best Android experience possible (at the time). I am a Google advocate. ****, Google has probably made (what to them must be a small amount but to normal folks would be) a metric ****load of money just on services bought by people I have recommended use Google over the past decade or so. Me, myself, I use Google for just about all my online needs from shopping to social networking. So no, this issue won't make me want to stop using Google, for sure, but it does make me feel my "relation" with Google is just that little bit less "special". They do tend to be biased and not support the little guys.
That said, I still have no solution to my question. Ideas?

Thoughts on the Note 3 coming from Touch Pro2

With the Note3, and all that I have been reading, I was thinking the new phones have finally caught up. I hate to say it after spending the money, but the technology seems crude compared to the Touch Pro2. So far I've been quite disappointed.
1. With the Touch Pro2, I can hold down the button on the ear piece and say:
"Call Nicole at mobile"
it will come back with "Call Nicole at mobile?" and it will not be a robot voice. It will be as natural as a normal speech.
Then I answer either "Correct" or "Yes" and it makes the call.
I can also do this with the screen on, and pressing and holding the call button.
With the Galaxy, the screen must be off for it to work. I also have to turn it off or it keeps listening and getting confused. On my TP2 it's always on, but I need to push a button before sending it a command, not activate and deactivate it each time. This is a usability killer.
2. The S-Pen does no better job interpreting text than the TP2 does. Where the TP2 beats the stars out of the Note 3 is that with the TP2, it is simply another keyboard, just like Voice is, and it has little edit icons to fix things, again like voice. The writing area is where the keyboard would normally be, and it translates after the end of each sentence. Thus, any app you install that you can type in, can use it, such as in a Word document, with word wrap.
3. the Touch Pro2 can automatically record all of your conversations, and then ask you at the end if you want to save it. That saved me in a legal suite already where I could prove a $1300 error on a vendor's part. I've also used it countless time to forward conversations, which is far more effective and efficient than taking notes. I hope I can find an app for this that works as well.
4. I also use the TP2's voice recorder in meetings a lot in meetings. While I haven't tried one of them out yet, perhaps there is a Note 3 app that is just as good.
5. Full backups and restores were easy with the TP2, and it backed up via USB to your PC. You can clean it down to the nothing, and restore it completely, no rooting required because you always did have root.
6. With the TP2, you always have root, and you can custom flash to anything you want, and right back to factory if you want to. With the Note 3, everybody sweats warranty, no OTA updates, etc.
The problems with the TP2 is the hardware. Even overclocked it can be pretty slow at times, Microsoft turned of Bing turn-by-turn navigation for it, new apps are no longer written for it, no 4GL, and the list goes on. I like the flexibility that I'm used to from the TP2, but the iPhone app interfaces seem to be more natural and better thought out. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I didn't expect to be at this point after all of these years.
Any thoughts of what I may be missing would be appreciated.

1. If you havent, download and install google now and under settings check the box that allows you to use google now on any screen. Then you dont have to touch the phone just say "OK, Google" then your commamd such as call someone, I use it all the time especially when im driving.
2. Dont use this feature enough.
3. You can thank Verizon for this. The international variant has this feature, Verizon liking to have total control took this option away. There are 2 options though; most custom roms have that feature baked in call recording. And also there are apks out there that have been said to work really well such as AndroRec, automatically runs in the background (if you use this use mode 2 btw for best recording volume) and I believe tbis is a free apk.
4. Theres a stock android apk called voice recorder already installed on your phone. Look under your tools folder if you still have it completely stock, ive rearranged my apk draw so not sure where its at exactly but its there thats a basic apk thats preinstalled, and its simply called voice recorder.
5. You can do this to an extent using Titanium Backup, your Google account to back up apks and data, and even Verizon assistant. I just had to get a new phone 2 weeks ago and it took about 20 minutes on wifi for mt phone to auto download 95% of my old apks and sync all my contacts, email, photos, etc etc. No root required just signed into google services.
6. Dont blame the phone for lack of root. Thus is strictly an OEM/Carrier thing. As I said earlier Verizon goes in and changes things and request manufacturers to lock and block features out all the time. Every carrier does this, except for Apple every OEM listens. Including Google a la Galaxy Nexus. Its just carriers wanting the final say in a product just to hold it over the consumer as to say "It may be your phone, but we're still the boss". You cant hold this to the phone lacking.
The Note 3 and most android phones are great devices from the manufacturers. Sadly most phones are hampered by carrier needs and demands. Apple does make a great phone my wife switched from the GS3 to a 5s, and currently has a 6 plus, and I just ordered one myself for my business line. If you want a stock OS that isnt carrier modified with great support and updates thwn Apple is a great phone, you just cant modify/customize and even do as much with it as most Android phones. On ther flip side except for really Nexus devices, if you want a customizable phone with alot of tweaks and mods but for the most part be carrier locked down then go with Android. Its a rock and a hard plave thats for sure.

amebiasis said:
1. If you havent, download and install google now and under settings check the box that allows you to use google now on any screen. Then you dont have to touch the phone just say "OK, Google" then your commamd such as call someone, I use it all the time especially when im driving.
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It came on my phone. It's in the Google folder. However, I don't see a check box to allow using Google on any screen. When I turned S-Voice off, it takes over when I'm connected Bluetooth. It does not respond to "OK, Google" with the screen on or off. Perhaps there is a different one on play?
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3. ...there are apks out there that have been said to work really well such as AndroRec
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It is clearer than Automatic Call Recorder it seems, but it suffers from the same problem in that it doesn't record any calls that are made from a Bluetooth headset. (No doubt easily cured by root access)
amebiasis said:
4. Theres a stock android apk called voice recorder already installed on your phone. Look under your tools folder...
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And it works better than anything I've installed. Thank you.
amebiasis said:
5. You can do this to an extent using Titanium Backup.
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That requires root
amebiasis said:
...your Google account to back up apks and data, and even Verizon assistant.
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That wouldn't be legal for me. It must be local.
amebiasis said:
6. Dont blame the phone for lack of root. Thus is strictly an OEM/Carrier thing. As I said earlier Verizon goes in and changes things and request manufacturers to lock and block features out all the time. Every carrier does this, except for Apple every OEM listens.
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Do you get root with Apple? That would be interesting. Android is a Linux fork. IOS is a UNIX FreeBSD fork, and FreeBSD and Apple work together all the time. I moved all of our servers off Linux to FreeBSD, so the environment would probably be somewhat familiar.
amebiasis said:
...Apple does make a great phone my wife switched from the GS3 to a 5s, and currently has a 6 plus, and I just ordered one myself for my business line. If you want a stock OS that isnt carrier modified with great support and updates thwn Apple is a great phone, you just cant modify/customize and even do as much with it as most Android phones.
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Being able to modify the looks is nice to have, but for me, Android+carriers doesn't give me the functionality I need and can get on a 2006 Touch Pro2. If I can get that functionality from an iPhone out of the box by adding a few apps, that makes sense. One other drawback that I heard though is the iPhones cannot walk and chew gum unless it is on a GSM carrier.
My needs are business needs:
1. A good local backup that I can restore the whole phone back to a previous point in time.
2. Local synchronization with Outlook desktop or exchange.
3. Automatically record both sides of telephone conversations, including when on Bluetooth.
4. Be able to initiate calls using my Bluetooth headset
5. Be able to use voice commands to initiate calls from the phone without the headset
6. Decent navigation
7. RDP so I can work on customer's and our servers.
8. VPN so I can work on customer's and our servers.
9. A good file manager like ES that can work over an SSH connection.
10. A good SSH terminal program like PuTTY.
My wants are:
1. Good speech to text. (I could care less about text to speech)
2. Good handwriting recognition in useful apps, like my TP2 has.
Thanks!

I installed "Google Now" from play, and it said it updated what was already on the phone. I haven't gotten the "OK, Google" to work, but when I press the microphone on the home screen and say "Call <somebody>", I get a popup that it wants all of my contacts. It even does that when I tell it the number to dial a number. Thus, needing them for voice purposes as indicated in the message is a deliberate lie. If I skip it, it does a web search on the phone number. I don't need to give them my contacts when I call via Bluetooth, and it works just fine. That indicates to me that Google doesn't need your contacts for voice purposes, it is selling your contacts to anyone who will pay. Those who would pay would only be unsavory characters.

Switch from iOS to Android - a few questions

Hi,
I have already been using android and iOS phones. However, since 2014, I only used iPhones (iPhone 6 & iPhone 6S Plus). The 6S Plus is my daily driver and I also use iPads. My girlfriend also uses an iPhone.
Today, I bought a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
I have to admit, the screen really is gorgeous, way better than the iPhone 6S Plus screen.
However, there are some functions I miss right now (which maybe exist but I don't know).
On my iPhone, I am used to tell Siri to "remind me of XY in 30 minutes". Is there any equivalent of this on Android? Like to add a reminder with only voice input.
Using my iPhone, I also shared shopping lists with my girlfriend. Is there a way to do this cross-platform?
Last but not least, I miss the drag down iPhone "Finder", where you, on your homescreen, can enter anything you want and it quickly searches through your phone (apps, music, photos etc). Like for instance, instead of searching for an app by its icon, I just enter "shaz" and it immediately points me to the app (shazzam in this example).
Would be great if there are solutions for these questions.
Many thanks in advance!

Hi, welcome back to Android!
1. Google Now provides this functionality as does S Voice. I prefer Google Now, but S Voice can be activated even when the screen is off. GN's "OK Google" command can be setup for activation from any app (even locked) but the screen has to be on.
2. Not sure, but it would probably need to be an app which is available on both platforms.
3. I don't use the stock app launcher so I'm not sure if it is included, but you can set this up as an option on a custom app launcher (custom home screen) like Nova Launcher.
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Google now launcher will be your best friend, shopping list u mean like sharing notes? U could use Google keep and have your girl download the same app. Google now also does #3

k1ck said:
Hi,
I have already been using android and iOS phones. However, since 2014, I only used iPhones (iPhone 6 & iPhone 6S Plus). The 6S Plus is my daily driver and I also use iPads. My girlfriend also uses an iPhone.
Today, I bought a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
I have to admit, the screen really is gorgeous, way better than the iPhone 6S Plus screen.
However, there are some functions I miss right now (which maybe exist but I don't know).
On my iPhone, I am used to tell Siri to "remind me of XY in 30 minutes". Is there any equivalent of this on Android? Like to add a reminder with only voice input.
Using my iPhone, I also shared shopping lists with my girlfriend. Is there a way to do this cross-platform?
Last but not least, I miss the drag down iPhone "Finder", where you, on your homescreen, can enter anything you want and it quickly searches through your phone (apps, music, photos etc). Like for instance, instead of searching for an app by its icon, I just enter "shaz" and it immediately points me to the app (shazzam in this example).
Would be great if there are solutions for these questions.
Many thanks in advance!
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1-) Google Now will do that for you, an even better all around voice commander than SIRI.
2-) Try Our Groceries from the Play Store, there must be a lot other apps that do the same.
3-) Samsung S Finder will do the same for you, just edit your Quick Toggles and locate S Finder in the first row of Quick Toggles and you'll always have it handily available.

Thanks a lot guys, my problems are solved !

Develop - use speech to text engine on device

I'm building a WearOS app and would want to utilize on device speech to text convertor. Is there an example or api documentation I can refer. My search ends up with Gboard, which is not what I am looking for.

The app is something like virtual assistant and listens to user's voice.

You can try mp3 to text converter. It is cheap, fast, and easy to use. Also, you can choose between Automatic and Manual Transcription Services. It depends on your needs, budget, and time.

I registered finally! been reading this site for years. (for like ten phones worth).
I just wanted to ask, if the app is/went well? You did not get good response to your question, and well, that bummed me out. (nice try McLellan, but too little too late, truly).
I would assume you would want to utilize Google's speech to text engine, to get the text, and then script out what to do with the input yourself. I AM look for an opensource solution to G-S-to-T right now, myself....
-JJ

Yeah OK, 2019 was a triumphant year for people that use their voice to a keyboard: https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/16/google-open-sources-live-transcribes-speech-engine/
now I just gotta figure out why AICP is not, using it.....

So, I fixed my problem. Gboard, for whatever reason, had rendered itself useless. So using Aurora, I uninstalled, re-installed , configured, and now i can talk out my SMS text messages in public to all-who-can-hear-me's annoyance. And, I can still talk to the voices in my head and look sane too (and my phone don't even need to be on! just in my hand.) I have never tried WearOS, but, I might need to look that up, cuz I keep hearing about it. Good luck to you and such.
-JJ