On FRF85B I was looking around and found some options that I did not notice before in the Voice input/output settings. In the text to speech their is something called Pico and espeak. Not sure what the differences between them are. Are these new to this (final?) Froyo build. Anyone have some info on what the differences are?
-Mike
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I've searched through a few tips pages and through the forums here but I can't seem to find this anywhere. Is there a way to change the voice Voice Command uses? I know for my PC I can download TTS Voices and use them in most anything but I can't find a way to do it on my Tilt. Any suggestions?
Nope. International version use different voices but there aren't "Voice Packs" for VC
You might be able to use Cepstral, but it would be a monumental task to change the voice.
Well that's a little disappointing, the voice is pretty robotic. Guess I'm just stuck with it for now.
Hi,
Not sure if this has been posted before. I find that the 2.0 version of the dialer and call log application and are worse than than the previous one in terms of options.
In the cupcake version, when you typed in a few alphabets and you got a few contacts listed, you could scroll through the various numbers linked to the contact with the trackball. This feature seems to be absent in all the 2.0 ROMs I have tried out. You have to open the contact and then pick the number you want to call....if not, it dials the first number stored.
Perhaps it will be a feature when the official version rolls out. But if anyone else has seen a solution to this problem, that would be great.
Thanks in advance
Samsom
heya,
NB: Replace the text "REPLACE" with http and www, and the text "REPLACE2" with just http. As a sidenote, if a mod sees this, can they please verify my account - getting annoying not being able to post links...lol. Thanks.
I'm on Froyo 2.2 (well, the test image that's out) on a Nexus One.
I read about the new swipe for number bad feature here:
REPLACE.androidcentral.com/froyo-feature-better-stock-android-keyboard
However, it seems intermittently unrealiable on mine, particularly when I use it in Messaging. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Has anybody else noticed that? Any tips to get it to always trigger?
Also, I read that in 2.1 you could trigger voice input by swiping left-to-right.
REPLACE.androidcentral.com/quick-tip-swipe-keyboard-bring-voice-input-21
I can't seem to get this working in 2.2 at all (and I've never used 2.1). Has anybody else got this working? If so, any particular tips I could check? (I've tried both having the Mic button on main keyboard and symbols keyboard, neither made a difference).
Other people seem to report something similar, just not sure if this is verified, or how common the issue is?
REPLACE.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-general-discussion/6199-keyboard-question-after-froyo-update.html
REPLACE2.forum.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-one/13734-slide-voice-input-working-poorly-froyo.html
I do find the Android keyboard a little weird and inaccurate, probably just still getting used to it (only day 3).
Cheers,
Victor
Hi,
So I got my Milestone yesterday. It currently has Android 2.1 (update 1).
And I saw alot of Android phones have speech to text stuff. Ie: When you click the search button on the milestone, you can either search or use your voice to search.
Even my sisters G1 which uses Android 2.1 has the speech search option. Why doesn't my one have that option, and how can I get it?
At this motorola link at the milestone home page:
You use the Text-to-speech settings to configure the Android text-to-speech synthesizer, for applications that can take advantage of it, such as TalkBack. TalkBack speaks the labels or names of items as you navigate the phone’s user interface.
Step 1: Enable Talk Back:
From the home screen, press Menu
Touch Accessibility
Check Accessibility
Touch TalkBack
You will be shown a disclaimer, touch OK
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I saw that my option says to enable accessability. That option seems disabled on my phone
What do I do?
firmware 2.1(update 1)
Version - GAS_EMEA_USASHLS00RTINT_P014
Kernel Version - 2.6.29-omap1
Build Number - SHOLS_U2_02.34.
Your sister's G1 has voice search because she is running a custom rom with it already included. I believe somewhere on here somebody asked where they could install htc_ime keyboard from. Find that thread and install that keyboard I believe it comes with voice search.
If not there should be a voice_search.apk file floating around you can install. I honestly can't remember what I did, but I certainly have voice search on my Milestone. I would try with the htc_ime.apk keyboard first. If voice isn't there, then find the voice_search.apk file.
Here are some instructions I wrote:
www(dot)androidpub(doy)com/389151
Adam
This phone doing frequently problem. Voice broken and few
author problem too. Is it right?
Downloaded the updated Google Voice Search with all of the new actions, but I noticed that it wasn't quite working as the demonstration video described.
"Listen to", "send text", "send email", "note to self" and "go to" all just launched the browser and performed a web search with the spoken statement.
Eventually, through trial and error I realised that if I changed the input language to "English (US)" instead of "English (UK)" all of the options became available!
Anyone notice if this is a Nexus One limitation or an application limitation? Couldn't find anything from Google explaining that the service would be language dependent. Haven't used it long enough to know if there is a big enough difference between the dialect recognition for this to be a problem.
Just seems to be a fail on Google's part really. I've set mine to both EN-US and EN-AU and it's fine.
noticed it as well- think they missed that one
Don't think they've missed it, found this earlier on the official blog earlier:
"Update (1:23 PM PST): we previously had not made the below downloads available outside the US, but they are now available. Voice Actions only work with US English speakers right now."
Not sure why it works on the EN-AU setting though, unless it's identical to the EN-US one but with a different name?