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Is there any speec to text app for xperia out?
Tried Vlingo tho, but it didn't work for me.
Soyish said:
Is there any speec to text app for xperia out?
Tried Vlingo tho, but it didn't work for me.
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Bing mobile search works but is not comprehensive (Speech to text only works within that app, not OS wide). I was hoping that would be a killer new feature in WM7, but now I see it is already in the Nexus One
hey ive seen a few ppl use voice dictation to text message, how do you get this to work on the SGS?
Download vilingo its free and seems to work fairly good.
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Hravz said:
hey ive seen a few ppl use voice dictation to text message, how do you get this to work on the SGS?
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If you are in the txt msg click on the microphone icon in your keyboard (assuming you have one). Lastest Swype has this feature, but you need a FW update to get the latest Swype. Other keyboards have this as well. I think the non-swype and easy to find, most popular are the
Droid multitouch
Swiftkey Beta
thanks for the prompt reply, ill be trying them asap
Anyone come across any fixes for the fact that (a) there is no LED indicator telling you that you have a message; and (b) there is no pointer/curser/trackball?
I tried NOLED app from the market, but thought it was useless.
NOLED is probably the only "fix" you are going to find for notifications. Android is a touch screen OS, why on earth would you need a pointer?
The trackball on the N1, for instance, is super helpful when typing.
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coldbeverage said:
The trackball on the N1, for instance, is super helpful when typing.
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So you didn't notice your phone didn't have a pointing device when you bought it?
migsims said:
So you didn't notice your phone didn't have a pointing device when you bought it?
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Haha maybe he thought it it had some weird gesture area like the crappy Pre or something.
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ON topic, mate a lot of keyboard apps for android include a d-pad option which will let you accurately simulate a cursor/trackball.
No LED notifications is a bummer. Strange how people with iphones are not annoyed by that! Something like sms popup can be set to periodically vibrate to remind you etc. No real solution there Im afraid!
There was some dev work on getting the backlight touch buttons to blink but work seems to have hit a dead end.
Ozy: thanks for the helpful reply!!
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coldbeverage said:
Ozy: thanks for the helpful reply!!
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No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
ozy944 said:
No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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Thanks! It's weird. I can't get NOLED to work on the Captivate. In any event, the backlight option is brilliant!
ozy944 said:
No LED notifications is a bummer. Strange how people with iphones are not annoyed by that!
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Meh. I was always irritated by the notification LED on my MT3G. I love that my Vibrant doesn't have any blinkenlites.
coldbeverage said:
Anyone come across any fixes for the fact that (a) there is no LED indicator telling you that you have a message; and (b) there is no pointer/curser/trackball?
I tried NOLED app from the market, but thought it was useless.
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There is a dpad on the Samsung and swype keyboards. Hole the 123 key on S. And drag between the two bottom left keys in swype.
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No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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This second link is exactly what ive been looking,
I think the LEDs at the bottom would make perfect notification lights,
Is there any more news on this?
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Heh, its the ideal solution, except theres not really a solution at the moment. Drivers have now been made public (or so Im led to believe). so Im hoping to see it come along side Cyanogen Mod.
Theres an online petiotion that can be signed regarding some dev work for this. At the moment, theres like 350+ signatories....now if everyone chipped in $5 ......
for the D-pad just slide from the "S" sybmbol in the lowwer left of the keyboard to the "sym" key directly next to it (using swype, not the samsung keyboard). a directional pad pops up and it has backspace, backspace by full word, delete, cut, copy, paste, select all, page up, page down, home and end, and a "tab" key, though i don't know if it works like tab of if it is just a large space for starting paragraphs.
samsungs keyboard also has something similar if you hold the key to the numbers/symbols for three seconds.
micro2112 said:
There is a dpad on the Samsung and swype keyboards. Hole the 123 key on S. And drag between the two bottom left keys in swype.
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Wow. Thanks! Dolphin HD, LiveJournal, and text entry don't get along so well for some reason; it never puts the cursor where I tap when I want to go back and edit text. So I'm extremely happy to hear there are arrows on the Swype keyboard! The trackpad and GPS were the only two things I was still missing from my Aria, and you just remedied the former.
Though now I feel silly for not figuring it out myself!
Too be honest I only knew about it from a review I read but they didn't explain how to do it, after a few days of messing with it I found it in the swype tutorials
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New gmail has long press select text for copy and paste now!
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Do you also see the tiny mouse arrow?
csmall said:
New gmail has long press select text for copy and paste now!
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yes its cool.
ScotchtapeLoser said:
Do you also see the tiny mouse arrow?
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Yeah tiny mouse arrow is there.
Not sure why long press never did text selection in gmail before. It's not like long press did anything previously!
Does anyone know if there's a 'dark' version of 2.3.4? I'm so used to having it on 2.3.2. and I don't wanna go back.
You can select text for sure but you can't do **** with it lol
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kenvan19 said:
You can select text for sure but you can't do **** with it lol
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Uhh after selecting text, tap the highlight and it will copy.
-Nexus S
nxt said:
Uhh after selecting text, tap the highlight and it will copy.
-Nexus S
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do you use this function after click reply and select words in reply quote field? I long pressed words in a received email, nothing happened. i'm using 2.3.3 gmail.
just found the newest is 2.3.4.1, is the one you use?
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do you use this function after click reply and select words in reply quote field? I long pressed words in a received email, nothing happened. i'm using 2.3.3 gmail.
just found the newest is 2.3.4.1, is the one you use?
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2.3.4.1 and the one previous (that was pulled).
And no.. it works when you're reading the email, not during a reply/compose.
You long press then let go, you will see a cursor, then you can tap and drag anywhere to highlight anything.
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2.3.4.1 and the one previous (that was pulled).
And no.. it works when you're reading the email, not during a reply/compose.
You long press then let go, you will see a cursor, then you can tap and drag anywhere to highlight anything.
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Thanks! updated to 2.3.4.1, it works.
Long press does nothing. Menu -> Select text does. 2.3.4.1
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Long press does nothing. Menu -> Select text does. 2.3.4.1
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You're right, it does nothing. Google put it in the changelog and fooled us... but somehow mine does it by magic.
nxt said:
You're right, it does nothing. Google put it in the changelog and fooled us... but somehow mine does it by magic.
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No need to be sarcastic. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for all of us. I have tried with various emails and holding my finger on text for various amounts of time. No success.
sonof said:
No need to be sarcastic. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for all of us. I have tried with various emails and holding my finger on text for various amounts of time. No success.
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In my experience, you need to long press, and then (if you see the little mouse icon), drag your finger.
Some of us are still waiting for ANY update to GMail =(
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=73aa9167a05c612d&hl=en
Some of us are wondering why Google separated the Gmail client from the regular email client.
Outright idiotic, IMO.
Thank Dog for K-9 (http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/)!
I'm looking for a keyboard which supports both full line selection when highlighting and also uses Google voice recogniser? Otherwise I'm looking for a fix to tweak "Sywpe" so that it will use Google voice recogniser. Let me explain:
My preferred keyboard is "Swype" because it's the only keyboard I've ever been able to find on which, when highlighting/selecting text, it's possible to select full lines (up and down arrows) as well as character by character (left and right arrows).
However, because Swype is the Note's native keyboard, it defaults to Samsung's Vlingo voice recogniser and won't let me choose and use Google's.
Thus what I'm looking for is either an alternative keyboard which supports selecting text by line, not just character, and also uses Google voice recogniser, or else - and preferably - a hack for "Swype" that will allow it to use Google and not Vlingo.
Can anyone help at all?
Thanks.
AidanBell said:
I'm looking for a keyboard which supports both full line selection when highlighting and also uses Google voice recogniser? Otherwise I'm looking for a fix to tweak "Sywpe" so that it will use Google voice recogniser. Let me explain:
My preferred keyboard is "Swype" because it's the only keyboard I've ever been able to find on which, when highlighting/selecting text, it's possible to select full lines (up and down arrows) as well as character by character (left and right arrows).
However, because Swype is the Note's native keyboard, it defaults to Samsung's Vlingo voice recogniser and won't let me choose and use Google's.
Thus what I'm looking for is either an alternative keyboard which supports selecting text by line, not just character, and also uses Google voice recogniser, or else - and preferably - a hack for "Swype" that will allow it to use Google and not Vlingo.
Can anyone help at all?
Thanks.
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Just select Google in Settings->Language and input->Voice recogniser instead of Vlingo. Then when you hit the microphone it will use that.
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Just select Google in Settings->Language and input->Voice recogniser instead of Vlingo. Then when you hit the microphone it will use that.
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I'm afraid that's not the case. Swype defaults to Vlingo regardless of whether it or Google is the selected voice recogniser. That's the point of my problem; Swype doesn't seem to want to recognise Google, and I presume that this is because Samsung want you to use their keyboard and their voice recogniser.
Use the stock swype which comes with the stock rom on galaxy note and there u have that feature.
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Use the stock swype which comes with the stock rom on galaxy note and there u have that feature.
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One of us is wrong here! I wouldn't for a moment suggest it were you, so I must have a flaw with my Note. It's rooted, but running the stock rom and indeed the stock Swype keyboard. However, regardless of whether I select Google or Vlingo, Swype always uses Vlingo. I have confirmed this by installing three alternative keyboards, all of which will use whichever of the two voice recognition options I pick. But Swype won't. If I could but find an alternative keyboard which supports highlight-selecting text by line, not just character by character, I would be very happy to dump Swype, use it, and solve the Vlingo/Google problem that way. But it seems that Swype is the only keyboard which supports line by line highlight-selecting.
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One of us is wrong here! I wouldn't for a moment suggest it were you, so I must have a flaw with my Note. It's rooted, but running the stock rom and indeed the stock Swype keyboard. However, regardless of whether I select Google or Vlingo, Swype always uses Vlingo. I have confirmed this by installing three alternative keyboards, all of which will use whichever of the two voice recognition options I pick. But Swype won't. If I could but find an alternative keyboard which supports highlight-selecting text by line, not just character by character, I would be very happy to dump Swype, use it, and solve the Vlingo/Google problem that way. But it seems that Swype is the only keyboard which supports line by line highlight-selecting.
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Try SwiftKey, may be worth a go. There's a limited free version you can test before purchasing, very good keyboard and able to highlight lines of text.
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Try SwiftKey, may be worth a go. There's a limited free version you can test before purchasing, very good keyboard and able to highlight lines of text.
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Many thanks. I'm very encouraged when you say it's possible to highlight complete lines of text, but thus far I've not been able to work out how to select any text at all! Could this be a limitation of the free version, perhaps? It certainly allows Google voice recognition, so if I could crack the text-selection part I may have solved my problem (or rather you may have, many thanks). Could you be so kind as to let me know how you text in the full version? I fear it may not be possible in the free one.
The other thing I would ask is whether it's possible in the paid version (it isn't in the free one) to switch off all predictive text, auto-spelling, etc? I'm afraid I'm old-fashioned and don't like any kind of prediction or help with my typing!
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Many thanks. I'm very encouraged when you say it's possible to highlight complete lines of text, but thus far I've not been able to work out how to select any text at all! Could this be a limitation of the free version, perhaps? It certainly allows Google voice recognition, so if I could crack the text-selection part I may have solved my problem (or rather you may have, many thanks). Could you be so kind as to let me know how you text in the full version? I fear it may not be possible in the free one.
The other thing I would ask is whether it's possible in the paid version (it isn't in the free one) to switch off all predictive text, auto-spelling, etc? I'm afraid I'm old-fashioned and don't like any kind of prediction or help with my typing!
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To highlight text within the text input box, just press and hold on a word, the highlight will highlight a portion of text, then you can drag the marker to include any further text required. Just tested and works well. I have the tablet full version which is excellent.
As to options with predictive text, you can set it to only offer suggestions which pop up above the line and need to be selected (for accurate typers) or to auto correct which constantly changes input (for speedy typers). I'm like you and don't like too much input as I'm relatively accurate and find the foremost very usable, not too intrusive.
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Thanks very much for the info. Ah, so text selection requires dragging the markers to where you want them. Swype's way is so much neater; you press "Highlight text" and then just move the left/right/up/down keys to select whatever characters, words or lines you want.
In other words, it's done entirely from the keyboard. I really am beginning to get the feeling that Swype is the only keyboard that does this. I've now tried A.I Keyboard, Perfect Keyboard, SWiftkey, Super Keyboard, TouchPal Keyboard, TSwipe-Pro, Big Buttons Keyboard and Ultra Keyboard, all of which allow selecting text by using the left and right arrows, but none the up and down arrows.
Can anyone suggest any other possibilities?
You can download the Swype beta and get Nuance voice input which is superior to Google's. The text you see here is dictated directly through Nuance.
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Kumabjorn said:
You can download the Swype beta and get Nuance voice input which is superior to Google's. The text you see here is dictated directly through Nuance.
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Very interesting and encouraging, thanks. But Swype Beta isn't in the Play Store. Is there an apk anywhere?
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Very interesting and encouraging, thanks. But Swype Beta isn't in the Play Store. Is there an apk anywhere?
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Register at Swype beta site and download direct.... Open ended beta package.
http://beta.swype.com/
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Register at Swype beta site and download direct.... Open ended beta package.
http://beta.swype.com/
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Beta installed. Many thanks. Will play!
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Beta installed. Many thanks. Will play!
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Let us know if it does what ya need. Good luck
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I've played!
Unfortunately, this beta version doesn't seem to get on well with my Note at all. There are a number of small bugs which I could probably live with - and completely accept, knowing that this is only a beta - however there are two biggies. Firstly, the return key doesn't work!! And secondly it's not possible to switch off predictive text (I hate predictive text with a passion and simply can't use it). It's a great shame because Nuance voice that looks fantastic and works really well, but another bug I have is that you can't see the results of your dictation until you close the keyboard.
So unfortunately Swype Beta isn't the answer for me after all, therefore I'm still looking for an alternative keyboard, if anyone else can suggest any please?
Thanks.
If you go to settings > apps > all then scroll to vlingo you can disable it and then you should be able change the voice action to Google when using SWYPE (pre installed)
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PJ147 said:
If you go to settings > apps > all then scroll to vlingo you can disable it and then you should be able change the voice action to Google when using SWYPE (pre installed)
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Unfortunately I can't. Vlingo isn't there under settings/apps, at least not as "Vlingo" or "Samsung Vlingo". Either it's there under a completely different name or else it's cleverly embedded in the firmware and doesn't appear at all.
Click the all tab and i disabled zinio and voice talk apps for vlingo. Try that.
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Click the all tab and i disabled zinio and voice talk apps for vlingo. Try that.
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Unfortunately in my applications/All I have no "Zino", no "Vlingo", and only "Voice Command"
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Click the all tab and i disabled zinio and voice talk apps for vlingo. Try that.
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zinio is for readers pub.