Out of the box, my LG G2 only has LG TTS and Pico TTS as Text-to-speech options.
LG TTS doesn't do street names in GMaps.
Pico TTS does, but the voice is terribly unnatural/robotic sounding.
My other Android phones have a Google Text-to-Speech choice that is both natural and does street names. I can't seem to pull this up in the Market. Does anyone know how to get it back?
burningembers said:
Out of the box, my LG G2 only has LG TTS and Pico TTS as Text-to-speech options.
LG TTS doesn't do street names in GMaps.
Pico TTS does, but the voice is terribly unnatural/robotic sounding.
My other Android phones have a Google Text-to-Speech choice that is both natural and does street names. I can't seem to pull this up in the Market. Does anyone know how to get it back?
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What version do you have? I just checked this on my Verizon G2 and i have it along with the LG TTS+ engine but it's defaulted to the Google one. ATT and/or international version then?
jim_0068 said:
What version do you have? I just checked this on my Verizon G2 and i have it along with the LG TTS+ engine but it's defaulted to the Google one. ATT and/or international version then?
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Hm, yeah, I have AT&T.
My AT&T S4 has Google Text-to-Speech
burningembers said:
Hm, yeah, I have AT&T.
My AT&T S4 has Google Text-to-Speech
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Strange, maybe the clean rom developer can port the verizon goolge tts engine to the at&t rom?
So I found GoogleTTS.apk's from various other ROMs and tried a bunch, none worked, lots of FC's.
My guess is that the GoogleTTS itself is a bit more integrated than I know of, and that the factory Google-apps included with the G2 aren't set to play nicely with them.
One piece of info that hints at this even more so is that when I would try putting GoogleTTS into /system/app alongside LGTTS and PicoTTS, it would end up replacing LG TTS in the menus.
Darn you LG.
burningembers said:
So I found GoogleTTS.apk's from various other ROMs and tried a bunch, none worked, lots of FC's.
My guess is that the GoogleTTS itself is a bit more integrated than I know of, and that the factory Google-apps included with the G2 aren't set to play nicely with them.
One piece of info that hints at this even more so is that when I would try putting GoogleTTS into /system/app alongside LGTTS and PicoTTS, it would end up replacing LG TTS in the menus.
Darn you LG.
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T-Mobile did the same thing, left out GoogleTTS. I just got around this last night and installed GoogleTTS. You were probably missing the library files associated with it, which is why it would FC. I did a writeup on how to get it all working and somebody even made a flashable zip: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46191233
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So I had my Nexus 4 about 2+ months now (bought straight from Google) and just a few days ago I decided to root and install custom kernel and rom. Installed the Illusion ROM 2.0 and the Air Kernel. I also installed Slim Gapps (Slim_Gapps.4.2.2.build.6.x.zip) to get my Google apps because they are not included in the Illusion ROM. Everything is great except for the navigation voice. I used to have a woman's voice who said words clearly and sounded almost humanlike...or something close to it when speaking directions. Now I have this computer-generated woman voice which sounds crappy compared to what I had before.
How do I get the original voice back? I noticed in my text-to-speech settings that I have something called PicoTTS. Am I missing something like google related? Please help me find her
anyone?
Anyone? I did a proper search but couldn't find a concrete answer. Please help.
You should install the full google apps,or use Ivona text to speech from play store
Still want the original
aelsharawi said:
You should install the full google apps,or use Ivona text to speech from play store
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Yeah I know Ivona exists. It's just that I was satisfied with the original voice provided with the Nexus 4. In fact, I really liked it I never thought that was an addon before flashing to a custom rom.
So you're saying that the Gapps provided by slim roms is not a full version?? If so, can you please provide a link where I can download the full google apps? I know the store doesn't have it cause I tried to search for it. Otherwise if any Nexus 4 owner is using the stock rom and included voice, can they somehow extract it and post a download link? It would be greatly appreciated.
If the above options aren't possible, then say I were to flash the stock rom again, would I get back the lost original voice? And then can someone give me instructions on how to extract the voice so I can install in a custom rom? This would be helpful too.
EDIT: Found downloadables. My search was flawed as I searched for "google text-to-speech, android text-to-speech, google tts, google tts nexus 4", etc. when I should've simply searched for "gapps" as "gapps tts" doesn't work either.
I got my Note 3 and am loving it so far. I test drove it and used navigation and noticed that the voice sounded horrible and wasn't the Google voice I was used to hearing on my rooted s3.
So I took a deeper look into setting the text to speech engine and noticed that only Samsung's is listed.
Has anyone been able to find a solution(unrooted preferably) to getting Google tts engine on the Note 3?
dunkavenger said:
I got my Note 3 and am loving it so far. I test drove it and used navigation and noticed that the voice sounded horrible and wasn't the Google voice I was used to hearing on my rooted s3.
So I took a deeper look into setting the text to speech engine and noticed that only Samsung's is listed.
Has anyone been able to find a solution(unrooted preferably) to getting Google tts engine on the Note 3?
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i had an update for the samsung tts when i customized the wake up phrases. (not sure how i got it but it popped up and said it had an update). it sounds better imo! but make sure your connected to wifi its over 60gbs!
I believe this was what I downloaded.
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I did that. It sounds better than before, but I still prefer Google TTS.
Once we have root we will be able to have google tts. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2472959
njfoses said:
Once we have root we will be able to have google tts. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2472959
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This works great. Just did it on mine.
I've just discovered that the HD Voice days update that you would have seen, is actually TTS done by SVOX!
I purchased SVOX, and for the UK be l voice at least, it's "exactly!" The same, same voice, same tone, same inflection used within the speech.
Not bad considering its a free addition
Hello guys,
i've already asked this same question when i had an HTC Desire HD but nobody could help me. Maybe i'll be more lucky this time.
I hate the default Text-to-speech output voice engine of Android. In italian, it's simply embarassing. In Google Maps it can't spell basic words like "first", "second" or "exit" and it doesn't read the streets' addresses; it simply says "turn right", "turn left" without specifying in which road i should turn.
So, i've installed Ivona Text-to-speech HQ with his italian male voice "Giorgio" and i think it's great. it speaks in a good italian and in Google Maps it even read the streets' names.
But i have a problem: sometimes Google Maps uses Ivona, sometimes it uses the Android default. Sometimes it uses for all the session the default voice, sometimes it keeps switching between the 2 voices (2 sentences said by Ivona, 1 sentence said by the default etc...).
I hate it.
Is there a way i can fix this? I've even tried to freeze Pico-TTS with Titanium, but it doesn't change a thing.
Thank you in advance!
PicoTTS and GoogleTTS are two different things, try to delete both of them and just use Ivona, there is also the option to set which TTS as default in Accessibility.
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PicoTTS and GoogleTTS are two different things, try to delete both of them and just use Ivona, there is also the option to set which TTS as default in Accessibility.
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Thank you, I didn't understood that Pico a GoogleTTS were different things. I'll try to delete/freeze both of theme, hoping it doesn't break anything.
I've setted Ivona as default TTS in the settings, of course, but it doesn't work anyway.
sberla54 said:
Thank you, I didn't understood that Pico a GoogleTTS were different things. I'll try to delete/freeze both of theme, hoping it doesn't break anything.
I've setted Ivona as default TTS in the settings, of course, but it doesn't work anyway.
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Freezing Pico TTS and Google Text-to-speech Engine seems to work, at least in my first tests.
By the way, i also wrote to the Ivona support and that's what they answered to me. No really useful:
Hello,
Unfortunately this is a Google's mechanism therefore we are not able to fix this issue. Generally the Google Navigation picks the voice with the best responsiveness and that is why Default voice i picked from time to time.
The only thing we can do is to work on the voice performance, hoping this will meet Google's voice pick mechanism.
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Uninstalling Google TTS Engine and Pico TTS seems to work.
Sometime the Google engine's voice comes back for a moment (i don't understand how this is possible), but Ivona TTS always gets preferred.
Guys I'm looking for a Google now launcher for LG G2 which works with Google search version 3.5. The apk installs but on launching the app says Google search needs to be updated. Anyone know where I can get the apk which works with Google search 3.5?
The ok google function stopped working on the earlier version I had installed and I tried to Uninstall and reinstall but the apks I have found so far don't seem to work with Google search 3.5.
Alternately can anyone suggest what I need to do to get the ok google everywhere functionality to work with stock LG launcher? Currently it doesn't work even after launching google now. I have language set to US English and the keyword detection is turned on.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-now-launcher-android-how-to/#!7vqwv
This is how I did it. Worked great.
Which version of Google search are you using?
Does OK Google work from any of your home screens?
Have you tried on Google everywhere? Which means you van launch it by saying OK Google even from within apps?
I noticed the Intonation setting on my friend's Google Pixel in Google TTS Engine.
I came across this article on Android police which mentions that Google TTS 3.10 adds the feature "Intonation" which makes the voice more expressive:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/1...ost-its-volume-above-other-apps-apk-download/
I have the latest version of Google TTS (3.10.10) on my Galaxy S5 (LineageOS 14). I also have the Google Assistant on my phone thanks to an APK I downloaded and flashed here. Works great, BTW.
Is there a way to enable the Intonation setting? It makes quite a difference!
I couldn't find anything about this on XDA or online.