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What is the quality of the built in microphone and using it with google voice to text? The reason I am asking is that I currently have an acer A500 and the voice to text does not work very well.
Certain easy words or phrases it picks up fine, but others it just mangles bad no matter how clearly you try to speak.
How does the voice to text work for you?
Rob
silverball.slayer said:
What is the quality of the built in microphone and using it with google voice to text? The reason I am asking is that I currently have an acer A500 and the voice to text does not work very well.
Certain easy words or phrases it picks up fine, but others it just mangles bad no matter how clearly you try to speak.
How does the voice to text work for you?
Rob
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did you try to record and listen to your voice? on TF it's awful, incomprehensive. it's sabotage!
Put a video on Youtube to show the result
I've never tried google voice-to-text. However, google voice search works pretty well on the TF101. While the quality of the microphone is relevant to voice recognition results, a perfectly good microphone could yield crap for voice recognition because of the voice recognition software that's processing it. The microphone on the TF101 is good enough for voice - whether that yields good voice recognition is another story.
Bye.
CrunchyDoodle said:
I've never tried google voice-to-text. However, google voice search works pretty well on the TF101. While the quality of the microphone is relevant to voice recognition results, a perfectly good microphone could yield crap for voice recognition because of the voice recognition software that's processing it. The microphone on the TF101 is good enough for voice - whether that yields good voice recognition is another story.
Bye.
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Just now, on google search I tried 4 sentences with integrated microphone and the same four with headset microphone :
integrated microphone recognizes one word or two
Headset microphone recognizes every single word.
try to record yourself with headset and without. You'll see the difference.
just purchased the TF a few days ago. And jeeeeeeeeez this internal mic is awful.... it makes recording any video or type of audio pointless. I'm not sure how Asus could put such a crap mic into a 500$ unit..
toukhang said:
just purchased the TF a few days ago. And jeeeeeeeeez this internal mic is awful.... it makes recording any video or type of audio pointless. I'm not sure how Asus could put such a crap mic into a 500$ unit..
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You're right it's a big crap! shame on ASUS. but look how few people are interested about that.
but look, not only recording is awful. People don't understand you on Skype or Gtalk.
as I mentioned it before, a good microphone wouldn't raise Transformer's price significantly.
So I repeat : SHAME ON ASUS!
It seriously is a ****ty mic, but fortunately, I don't need it.. yet.
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I agree wholeheartedly. The mic sucks on TF101. I used my tab to video my rc helicopter flight in the living room and either got hardly any audio or audio with a high pitched whine. I paid $499 for this puppy. My $100 dollar camera does a better job. Heck the mic on my $79 dollar mp3 player works better.
I guess for short youtube or facebook video's I need to pick up a real video camera.
Yay! Another electronic gadget coming my way.
I find it works best if you're very close to the mic, like sharing the same pillow.
A decent phone is probably better, both for rear facing camera and mic.
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There is a way to improve the quality of the microphone? Even changing Roma have no real improvement?
the microphone is very poor. you notice that if you tap on the back of the tablet when recording it picks it up very loudly, but speaking into the microphone you can hardly hear anything.
video chat (gtalk seems to work best) is just about usable but you have to sit close and talk loud.
like the guy said, it wouldn't have cost a lot more to put in a better mic - i would have paid an extra £10 for something decent.
I tried to record a lecture with the microphone. Its so muffled and so bad that i was acutally amazed by how asus can market it to students. The camera is also of very bad quality.
What the f were they thinking....
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I got this phone to replace my previous phone mainly because of the Bluetooth audio. I use it in my car a lot. Now I'm using the nexus and I have to say the quality is worse than anything. If it's plugged in with aux, it's fine. But Bluetooth audio is completely crap. Do you guys know if this can be a software fix?
IMHO bluetooth is designed for convenience not quality. I use BT for car all the time but my speakers are even crappier so no difference. If you care go for wires. I saw the review on gsmarena for the audio of N4 quite positive.
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Bluetooth sounds fine on mine. Can you be a little more forthcoming about what you're hearing (other than "crap").
Solutions Etcetera said:
Bluetooth sounds fine on mine. Can you be a little more forthcoming about what you're hearing (other than "crap").
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Speakers cracking. I thought it was my speakers but then I plugged in the aux and it was perfect. I used gnex, 2 phones ago for audio streaming music and it was fine. But this is just crazy terrible. Night and day. The crackling is extremely noticeable
I notice the crackling in my car too. Its mild but annoying enough for me to switch to aux input. I think that Cyanogenmod uses a different set of BT drivers so it might be worth a flash.
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If you have sizzling in your bluetooth audio I would look to ground loop issues. Perhaps an audio transformer between the bt audio out and your stereo.
No issues with bluetooth over here. Sounds fine for me.
Bluetooth audio sounds better than my Gnex did. Using AOKP 12/05 build. I do wish there was AVRCP 1.3 support, but that seems to be missing from 4.2 roms so that's not so much a device specific issue.
A2DP is a ****ty spec from a quality standpoint. It uses lossy encoding and was designed to have low overhead while sounding acceptable. It's not going to be stellar on any device.
no its completely noticeable for me. bluetooth audio streaming is way substandard on this phone. im really hoping its a software issue cuz bt 4.0 was very attractive. cm is known for good bt audio? or would all the custom roms probably fix this?
Donavo, there is a known issue with Bluetooth on Android 4.2.
Actually three issues that people are having. First are connection issues, second is audio drops and the third is the audio quality {the crackling that you are hearing).
The issue apparently is caused by a rewrite of the Bluetooth stack by Google for v4.2.
Both my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 have the cracking issues after upgrading to 4.2. It's less noticeable on low quality source material like podcasts but very noticeable on high quality material.
No connection, drop issues with the GNex but I have drop issues on the N7.
You'll have to use the headphone jack until a fix is released. If there's a custom rom that's not using the new Bluetooth stack then that would fix the issue as well.
Here's the bug report if you want to track it.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632
EDIT: It may not have been a rewrite but they may be using a new stack from Broadcom.
http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s721534
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AdamUpNorth said:
Donavo, there is a known issue with Bluetooth on Android 4.2.
Actually three issues that people are having. First are connection issues, second is audio drops and the third is the audio quality {the crackling that you are hearing).
The issue apparently is caused by a rewrite of the Bluetooth stack by Google for v4.2.
Both my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 have the cracking issues after upgrading to 4.2. It's less noticeable on low quality source material like podcasts but very noticeable on high quality material.
No connection, drop issues with the GNex but I have drop issues on the N7.
You'll have to use the headphone jack until a fix is released. If there's a custom rom that's not using the new Bluetooth stack then that would fix the issue as well.
Here's the bug report if you want to track it.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39632
EDIT: It may not have been a rewrite but they may be using a new stack from Broadcom.
http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s721534
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Oh man thank you what a relief. This answers my exact question. Thanks again.
Bluetooth audio quality fine on mine. Using Sony mw600.
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I have the bluetooth audio quality problem too. Just got a Nexus 4, upgrading from a Hercules (Tmo SG2). On the previous phone, sound quality was excellent and you would never know audio was streaming from the phone. With the Nexus 4, the sound is harsh and distorts on the high frequencies, resulting in a static sound on things like cymbals and such. Also, the phone audio streaming over bluetooth is harsh. It's almost as if the person on the end was talking through a megaphone.
I did notice that while in a phone call, the volume was much louder to my receiver than my previous phone. Perhaps the problem is that the bluetooth audio's volume is being sent too high?
I hope Google fixes this soon, along with the broken AVRCP profile (I no longer get song meta data streaming to the receiver).
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I hope Google fixes this soon, along with the broken AVRCP profile (I no longer get song meta data streaming to the receiver).
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It's not broken, it just hasn't been implemented. I believe stock Android just has AVRCP 1.0 which is control only. I think you need v1.3 to get titles to show. I don't believe any of the Nexus phones have AVRCP v1.3 which is a shame. Until Google puts it in I think you need to go with a custom rom to get AVRCP v1.3. Maybe do a quick search to see which do. I'm using stock so I don't know which ones support it.
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Bluetooth audio quality fine on mine. Using Sony mw600.
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Same here on both counts.
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Wow, I didn't know this. Being stuck at 1.0 is ridiculous. Maybe (hopefully) with the Bluetooth framework change they'll finally get around to adding 1.3 (or hell maybe 1.4!) support.
I'm using a crappy, $13 dealextreme bluetooth receiver (SKU: 120198). The audio quality is obviously not as good as with the aux input, but I think it's rather good. I can say for sure that it sounds considerably better than my GNex did on the same receiver. It does occasionally have connection problems, though I'm not sure if that's a problem with the phone or a side-effect of buying a $12 receiver, lol.
just posted a similar question in the evo 3d forums, part still waiting for my N4, but my evo sound quality over bluetooth is poor too, and I can hear the compression! its worse on high quality music like flac files. I think it is a general limitation of bluetooth audio streaming
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Anyone know of any ROMs with AVRCP 1.3 or 1.4?
Yeah this sux bad....i noticed the audio quality instantly after syncing my Nexus 4 to my car. I was as if you took a 320kbps MP3 and compressed it to 64kbps. I flashed back to stock in hopes of fixing it but no dice. I cant wait for a Fix
This is the only thing that makes me miss my Galaxy Nexus (4.1.2)
I've found the audio recording on the stock video recorder to be pretty low quality and heavily compressed. Is there a way to change this within the recorder app itself? Or it hardware and not software causing the problem? Also, I notice that the sound comes out stereo, but most of the audio plays inconsistently from only one speaker.
You can see [hear] what I mean HERE.
PS: this is totally not a plug . It's just the kind of thing I'd like to record on my phone once in a while and I'd be disappointed if I couldn't find a way to improve the quality.
It plays from one speaker cause it has only one speaker....Except if you mean outside of the phone.You cannot change it from the app its fixed.
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It plays from one speaker cause it has only one speaker....Except if you mean outside of the phone.You cannot change it from the app its fixed.
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Thanks for your reply. I did mean outside the phone. Using headphones or playing the video on another device yields weird stereo issues. I am aware that the two grills at the bottom are for the speaker and microphone.
Might you know of a decent video recorder app that would have better audio quality?
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Try Hi Q Mp3 recorder. I have the pay version and it works fine for recording your voice etc. In the options I chose rear mic and it seemed better to me. I did notice that if you are recording voices in the background and not directly in front of the mic that the recording comes out very choppy though. On my old Nexus it was perfectly clear so not sure if that is the noise cancellation messing it up.
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I may have found the solution; I forgot that I had Jishnu Sur's camera mod installed (2.5.3). When I reflashed with a freshly downloaded zip, the issues seem to have gone away. I'll keep using it and see if that fixed it for good.
Hi friends. I noticed something today. I record a video in a silent room, just me and my wife. After recording I started to watch and noticed that there is no sound until one of us speaks. There is a sound cut in the video. No background sounds until someone speaks and when someone speaks I can hear all the voices. What can cause this problem? I tried it with lenovo super camera app, stock camera app and moded camera app and all of them has the problem. I tried it with my friends G2 and the result is same. No sound until someone speaks. BUt it is normal when the tv was open or there are much peaople talking in the place. Anyone noticed something like that?
It sounds like noise suppression is working to me.. compared to my One, I think it's great. I have 2 toddlers and this phone does a great job at blocking background noise during conversation.
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same problem here with the sound on video recorded.Mybe someone will find a solution for this issue.
yes I too have same problem. The sound keeps cutting in and out whenever there is no talking or loud noises going on. The mic picks up sounds great, especially voices. But ambient sounds are very hard to hear with all the sound cut outs and background noises. Maybe just some faulty units, or something that needs to be addressed in a future update just like on the Moto x.
Nexus 5 has same issues, read a long thread about it this morning. I have the same problem when recording audio, almost like an underwater sounding effect. I think it has to do with the LG noise cancellation algorithm. Not sure of a fix, only thing I don't like about the G2 so far. On the Nexus 5 some folks adjusted the build.prop to turn off noise cancellation if they were rooted and it seemed to work. Not sure how to do that though.
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I just bought my LG G2 for two weeks. It s a really amazing android phone and I love it. But yesterday when I started it up in the early morning and noticed the micro sound from G2. This sound like the sound from a hard disk when it run, u must listen carefully to realize it. Then I pay attention at it and actually hear this sound from my G2 when run some heavy apps or games.
Is my G2 OK? Have anyone else heard this sound?
I've never heard a sound. Sounds like a short with the speaker or microphone. There are no moving parts outside of the camera. How loud is it?
I noticed my. NEXUS 7 2013 makes a sound when I mute the audio while playing a video. Its a slight frequency pitch but stops even with volume set to 1. It starts and stops at random.
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I just bought my LG G2 for two weeks. It s a really amazing android phone and I love it. But yesterday when I started it up in the early morning and noticed the micro sound from G2. This sound like the sound from a hard disk when it run, u must listen carefully to realize it. Then I pay attention at it and actually hear this sound from my G2 when run some heavy apps or games.
Is my G2 OK? Have anyone else heard this sound?
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Not sure what you describe is the same.
I have static noise - buzzing in the earpiece. Even when screen off....annoying in calls...
In my case it's an old known bug of LG devices(someone said all devices to have this to some extent, however LG's is the only one I can hear it from). I reported it few times... It's very well documented in the Nexus 4...
At LG G2 the users do not like to be told that their precious is bugged...
Some do not hear it or do not want to hear it.
The buzzing, static etc. You can hear it even when the screen is off...
Supposed to be shielding issue?
Maybe yours could be the same
Can you check with screen of if you can hear some buzzing?
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I've never heard a sound. Sounds like a short with the speaker or microphone. There are no moving parts outside of the camera. How loud is it?
I noticed my. NEXUS 7 2013 makes a sound when I mute the audio while playing a video. Its a slight frequency pitch but stops even with volume set to 1. It starts and stops at random.
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No, not sounds are made from speaker or microphone. It seem be made from one of hardwares of G2. I don't know exactly. This sound like sound is made from hard disk of PC when it runs.
Similar here...
I have this sound on headphones in the right channel.
It's very low and as quachhanthanh says it's like a hard drive starting up but much lower with similarities how radio frequencies disturb speakers.
It increases a little when I touch the screen but is constant like a very low beat when not using the screen.
I will try this later on CM latest stable.