IVONA and google maps - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi, i used to have ivona working with my S4 but i restored it a while ago and now i cant seem to get to change the tts engine to ivona. i thought this might be an s4 issue but i cant seem to do it on my nvidia shield either. used to have the welsh voice for google navigation but now stuck with the standard google voice..
any help would be appreciated

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Samsung TTS

Hi Guys,
I had an issue where the phone was shouting weird talkback commands in the browser even with talkback off (lightflow installed)
So now i removed samsung tts but i realised it stopped s translate working. Ive re added samsung tts from a system dump on here but it keeps FC'ing on me.. Does anyone have any quick fixes?
Ill probably never use s translate but its nice to know its there..

[Q] Google Navigation Stock Voice

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.

[Q] Google TTS engine not available?

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

[Q] Help with Google voice to text

Odd problem.. I installed a stripped down rom, and now i have no Google voice to text. I installed Google keyboard, and Google search, however no Google typing option in the input settings. Is there an apk i can install to fix this?
after spending all day looking for the solution, I would find the answer 10 minutes after posting about it lol
seems I was missing plain old Google on my phone, found it in the App Store download it and it works like a charm now.

Intonation missing on Google Text To Speech engine

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.

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