I have the T-Mobile S8 (G950U with Snapdragon) and I have this strange issue with Google Maps navigation. It's totally stock and not rooted. The volume of the turn-by-turn navigation voice gets soft, then loud, then soft, seemingly at random. Some phrases are spoken loud, then a few minutes later the next phrase is spoken soft. This happens whether I use the speaker on the phone or if I connect to my car's Bluetooth. Has anybody else experienced this behavior?
Seems like no one replied to you sadly. I have the exact same issue. It sounds to me as if they are actually two different sets of recording types. The older and more robotic sounding one seems to not obey the "louder" voice level setting. I have also occasionally had them both start speaking at the same time, or immediately after each other - almost like I had two navigation systems up. It's very annoying, and sometimes causes me to pull over to check proper directions when I am motorcycling and listening inside my helmet with music on as well. This problem has been occurring since my Galaxy S6 and still appears on my S8+. I haven't found any solution yet.
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Exactly the same for me, and it has been for my last few Samsung phones, it really must affect loads of people,
it seem as though one voice is Google and the other is Samsung conflicting with each other
Trev
Did you try to change Samsung text-to-speech setting to Google?
same problem with volume
I have the same problem, with Google Maps using (at random) either a low and a normal volume. Has any of you found out a solution since you posted? Is this a Samsung, Android, or Google Maps issue? (has anyone noticed it with other apps?). Thx! --Dan
I have the same issue on S7. It is not an android issue I think, because I never had anything similar on any other android device. This problem really bothers me and I cannot find a solution. I am using Google Maps almost every day and this issue spoils all my impression on S7 which I bought recently.
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Hey all,
I just got my RMA device, which overall is a great improvement over my current nexus 4. The problem I literally just started to encounter while testing it all out is sound not working. Youtube was working fine, sound and all, then I installed a few more apps (harmless ones that I had on the other phone, and are well known and trusted). Now the sound flat out will not work on youtube, or through the google play stream. I can select ring tones fine, and the examples play, so it seems that the speakers work.... Tried playing fruit ninja, no sound. I'm pretty baffled, but also a huge noob at android, so I might be missing some stupid simple?
Any advice or help is greatly appreciated.
ETA: Apparently the speakers only work when it comes to listening to ring tones, and the noise made when raising or lowering the volume of the ringer. Other than that, I'm getting jack **** for sound. Appears the mic doesn't work either, as when I talk into the google search or the talk to text, it does absolutely nothing but tell me to talk into the mic, then tells me to tap to talk since it didn't pick anything up. Guess I've got another RMA coming, and of course all the problems that were fixed with this RMA will be back again, probably along with a ****ed up yellow screen. **** you, Google. **** you, LG. I've never had such ****ty buying experiences.
Bump because I'm utterly confused.
The sound/mic work but it seems to only last a short time. I had left the RMA phone off all night, turned it on, and lo and behold, the sound works. So did the mic, it would pick up everything I said when pushing the google search mic icon. Decided to try out youtube, put on a two minute video, which had sound. 3/4 of the way through the video, the video stuttered, buffered, and the sound was gone. Mic no longer picked up anything I said. Annoyance was had.
Turn the phone off AGAIN, leave it off for a few hours. Come back to see if I can even call people, if the mic is not working. Click the google search mic icon to test it out, there is sound and it picks up my voice. Try out an 8 minute video this time, sound works fine (maybe a little quiet) until the ~6 minute mark, then cuts out again! I decide to try a call, since the mic is no longer picking up my voice when I do google voice search. I call my old cdma phone, put it on speaker, and speak into it. I can hear myself clearly through the cdma phone, no problem. I end the call, and lo and behold, sound again!
I am completely baffled as to this issue. Is it a hardware problem? Is it a software problem? Anyone with lots of experience have any theories? I have no idea whether I need an RMA or some sort of software update. As of right now Im' running the phone as I got it, I did a factory reset this morning. Last night when the sound was cutting off, it had the OTA and numerous apps installed/updated.
My phone is not rooted. This just started this week. I have not adjusted any settings for quite a while so I am pretty sure I did not do anything to cause it.
Since getting my Note 3 in October I use the voice method of inputting text for email and sms quite often. When starting a message where I want to voice inpput, I click the microphone button and speak what I want to send. Works well for me. Thursday the phone started making a loud, very annoying, beep type sound whenever I launch this by clicking the microphone. It happens even when the phone is in silent mode. I checked the sound options in the phone settings and everything is set as it has always been. All system and keyboard sounds are turned off. I also tried another keyboard app rather than the phone default and it is the same with that.
Does anyone have an idea why this started and how to silence it? Thanks!
I guess this is not an issue for others here. I did find the exact problem on another forum and it started for him just a few days ago also. So maybe something updated automatically that caused this. We will see if more people start complaining about it. By the way we have tried a few different suggestions, including resets, but nothing turns off the noise yet.
0n edit: I looked at my apps to see what recently updated. One of the recent updates was to Google Search. I uninstalled all the updates to Google Search and the problem is gone. So it is a bug in the most recent update to Google Search that turns on that sound with no way to turn it off.
I got the update that enabled the ok google hot word from anywhere, but for some reason, I cannot get it to recognize my voice in the training screen. I have to be screaming at it for it to pick it up. With my N7, it works perfectly, no screaming required
Anyone have this problem? Oh, and If you don't have it already, follow this: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12sczagllb1inism235gtbp1mb2j3qb204
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I also noticed something else. Even in the voice recorder app, if the phone is more than a foot away, it doesn't pick up the sound very well. Is this the same for everyone?
This suggests that you may have issues with the microphone. Is your in-call quality good?
I have been using my Nexus Player for a few days now. I like the device, but hate the voice control on it. The voice search doesn't work 9 out of 10 times, if I am more than 4-5 feet away (my couch is about 7 feet away from the Player). Sometimes, pressing the search button and speaking into the remote won't even do anything but bring up the search dialogue box. When it does work, it just catches the first or the last word and often incorrectly. So it's hardly any usable.
Again, if I move closer to the Player, the voice search improves. I first though it was the batteries, but have changed the batteries to a new set, and the problem still persists.
Is any else experiencing similar problems with the voice search?
I believe this is a defect and will be contacting Google to get a replacement, but wanted to know how widespread the problem is and whether it can be somehow fixed without having to go through the exchange process.
Thanks.
Hello.
I have a problem that i can't get my head around.
Bixby voice recognition is working fine.
When i use google assistant "let me talk to Todoist" and it doesn't undrestand me, for 4th or 5th time, the bars in the middle (voice level) show that i am "constanly yelling", meaning that it is recording some loud voice and is not undrestanding me.
After this has happened recordings in voice recorder play a loud static noise.
Tried using both samsung and google voice-to-text engines.
Everything is fixed with a restart or making a phonecall.
S8
Oreo 8.0.0
SEB region
Yours truely,
Jax
Same issue here as well. Super annoying
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I have the same issue.
I have the exact same issue as yours. Did you ever have any fix for it yet ?
I have the exact same problem.
Video recording with just white noise yesterday.
Never had the issue before.
And found out others had that problem related to the Google Assistant.
Force closing Google helps out for a while or until you run the Google Assistant again, then the problem is back
Same problem here. Force close Google app resolves it, but 4-5 voice commands later it's the same again. The assistant can't hear what I say. Google assistant is totally unusable on S8 for now, hoping for a fix. I'm investigating the problem but nothing works. If someone know about something we can do, please tell us here!
I have the exact same problem as well...
Happened to me as well. When I opened the Audi Recording app it recorded some disturbing loud white noise. Happened only once, I don't know what the hell it was
I have the exact same problem by using google assistant. Any solutions?