XE24 with the search apk : "ok glass" (native to the XE24 release) is close to impossible to use by speech recognition.
Asking a google question, is surprisingly perfect, even with odd city names in norwegian, it recognizes "every" question perfectly.
Was/Is there some "ok glass" training for hardware detection of that phrase in the glasses? - anyone know how to trigger that learning?
We have an XE23 at work, and from what I remember, it is equally "impossible" get to recognize "ok glass".
the thing I noticed is that if you say it with an english pronounciation, it always works (saying the A as in "ah"), while saying it the american way doesn't always work (saying the A as the E in mess), maybe that helps. and yes, the speech recognition is bad, but it's based on an android that is almost 8 years old
You are absolutely right, I found that out by myself since then, except I found that the "ass" the three last letters needed a little different pronunciation.
I changed my habit and it's reliable now.
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I've been reading about the text-to-speech entry method for the Nexus One. Speech recognition is a great idea, but very difficult to accomplish.
I've always steered clear of devices without a physical keyboard, which is why (being on T-mobile) I have stuck thus far with my trusty G1.
However, this feature on the Nexus One has gotten me thinking about what it would take to get me to go with a device that does not have a physical keyboard, and I think I know what would do it.
I'd like a true "voice keyboard". I don't want the device to try to figure out whether I'm saying there, their or they're, I'd like it to let me spell, just as I would with the keyboard, with my voice.
Option A would still be prone to errors but still be much more accurate than full speech recognition, and would just allow me to try to spell what I am saying--I would simply say the letters "H-E-L-L-O-Space-W-O-R-L-D-Period" out loud.
Option B would require some memorization, but would allow for nearly perfect accuracy, by spelling your entry with the phonetic alphabet. The above would be spoken as "Hotel-Echo-Lima-Lima-Oscar-Space-Whiskey-Oscar-Romeo-Lima-Delta-Period".
I'd presume that the system would by default attempt to auto-capitalize as it does now, "Shift", "Shiftlock" and "Unshift" could be used as commands as well.
Any thoughts? Has it already been done? I'd be awfully close to putting a Nexus One on my belt if I could enter text this way.
That's an interesting idea. The nexus one does that for punctuation marks, if you say "question mark" the output is "?" instead of spelling out the words 'question mark'.
Though I still see 'option a' being prone to errors with letters that sound alike, such as "B/D/E/...". As for option b i personally think it would just be too time consuming to write a couple of sentences and it would probably be much faster to just type it on a virtual keyboard (including all the time lost correcting mis-touches). But anyway it would be nice if a 3rd party vk implemented the idea..
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?
Up until now my voice search results have been spoken in a male voice with a british accent. Suddenly this evening my Nexus 10 has turned into a female american. In addition, and probably more importantly, it has stopped reading back results for some queries. It will still read back the result for "How many teaspoons in 500 liters", but not "how far to alpha centauri", for example, when it always read back both before. I've changed no settings.
What had changed and how can I get my british male voice back for all results?
i'm suddenly experiencing similar craziness. it seems like google's servers are borked
Interesting, I wonder if its location dependent.
Mine has always been in the same female voice as on the nexus 7 TV commercial in the states.
Ok, the search reading or not reading results seems to be the result of how particular the search is about whether or not it returns on a card or just directs to the google results. Fine, I can live with that.
The loss of the british voice seems like it's possibly related to android issue #8463 - "Language setting ignored in google navigation" (I can't post links yet). People who have languages other than american english selected as their default text-to-speech language are still getting american english in other google apps, and have been for years.
Hi,
I own a LG smart watch and an nexus 5X, but i don't feel like they are working 100% together. For instance, i set the language on my phone to my native language (danish) , yet the watch only takes commands in English. Also, if i talk to the watch, and decide to look on my phone, i see the phone also registered the "ok google" sentence, and is trying to understand me in danish. So what i get whenever i say "ok google" is a watch that listens for commands in English, and a phone that simultaneously wants to take commands in danish.
Is there any way to make them work more together on this?
Hi there,
I've been trying to use such apps like Commandr and AutoWear. Both not listening to voice commands.
Background info: My native language is polish so I set on my phone in speech recognition polish and english language. This works well because my watch recognize pretty well both polish and english commands. Also my phone in Google now recognizes speach in both languages well.
Firstly I've installed Commandr. I've setup commands for few actions. My phone doesn't have Xposed module so I'm aware that I have to say "take a note" before a command. After saying "take a note" in english or polish watch always indicates "taking note to self" - and that's all. After saying "take a note + command" watch always fires up google search results (which means he don't have any clue what I want from him). It doesn't fire up Commandr actions at all.
Then I uninstalled Commandr and installed AutoWear. Result is excatly the same. In configuration wizard of AutoWear there's a moment when you have to check out how your voice recognition works. And here's still the same: I've said "take a note" and for the first time watch asked me which application to use, so I've chosen AutoWear (instead of Evernote or Keep). The result was the same. Any time I said "OK Google + take a note (or note to yourself) + command" watch always pop-up with google search instead of doing command. I cannot even bypass the configuration screen of AutoWear when you should test AutoWear commands recognition because I always get just google results. What the hell is wrong?
I've also tried to change speach recognition language in Android settings to only polish or only english. In both cases if I say "take a note" or "zrób notatkę" (polish) result is the same - just giving me google search results instead of doing Commandr / Autowear commands.
To be precise if I say "OK google + take a note" it says "taking note to self".
When I say "OK Google + take a note + any command" it just giving graphical or text google search results.
It doesn't matter in which language I say that. Both in english and polish results are the same as stated above.
HARDWARE:
Phone: LG G3 5.0.0 (stock + rooted)
Watch: LG W100 5.1.1 (stock)