One of the features of the Moto X that I've been looking forward to most is the Assist app, which can - among other things - read text messages to you while you're driving. However I'm a Google Voice user, and I'm not sure if that feature integrates with Voice, or if it will only work with messages received through the standard messaging app on the phone.
Does anyone know if these two play nice together?
Not out of box
Ok so Assist has no options to tell it what messaging app to read from. So, it does not integrate with Voice. However, if you have enabled the feature which sends messages to you regular app from Voice then it should read them. However, I imagine that you probably do not have it set up this way.
Until someone comes up with a Voice+ option for stock Android it probably won't work.
tl;dt No.
I think google has lost interest in Google Voice. I can see it coming up on the chopping block in the future. They already got a treasure trove of voicemails to train their voice recognition technology on, so they no longer have anything interesting to gain from supporting the service. Like Google Reader (RIP), it is a very useful service that has no way of generating real revenue for Google.
The lack of MMS support is already killing it for me. Once the iphone started sending all multiple-recipient texts as MMS, it meant I would miss important messages (with no notification that I missed it and no notification to the sender that I never got it). This wasn't a big deal when it meant I missed silly photos from people's camera phones, but now I miss real messages.
Now they are releasing fancy new features like Assist, that don't even work with Voice.
I wonder if there is a way to swap my phone numbers. Can I move my GV number to my AT&T account and my AT&T number to google voice? I like my GV number better, and it is local to my city, but a lot of people still use my "real" number due to both the MMS issue and the fact that I only got GV in 2009.
Disappointing, but not totally unexpected. Oh well. Thanks for checking!
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I think google has lost interest in Google Voice. I can see it coming up on the chopping block in the future. They already got a treasure trove of voicemails to train their voice recognition technology on, so they no longer have anything interesting to gain from supporting the service. Like Google Reader (RIP), it is a very useful service that has no way of generating real revenue for Google.
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I have no inside knowledge, but chances are Google Voice is not going away in the near future. In fact, they are integrating it with Hangouts. There is a war waging over control over the means of users messaging and there is no way Google is going to just give that up.
Now they are releasing fancy new features like Assist, that don't even work with Voice.
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Google might own Motorola but that doesn't mean that Motorola IS Google. This is Moto's feature and I don't even see why they would have integrated it with Voice honestly.
I wonder if there is a way to swap my phone numbers. Can I move my GV number to my AT&T account and my AT&T number to google voice? I like my GV number better, and it is local to my city, but a lot of people still use my "real" number due to both the MMS issue and the fact that I only got GV in 2009.
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You can port your number out of Google Voice just like you can port numbers into it.
Is there any way to reply to SMS messages using preset replies? Similar to the way apps like "Glance" for the Pebble watch does.
S VOICE is nice but when I'm in meetings or other public places I need a way to send quick short text answers.
This would be great. Maybe one day we will.
Sent from my hacked Galaxy N3!
I have xvoice+ xposed module installed and it does a great job at intercepting Google Voice text messages and routing them to the stock SMS app. However, they are not read in the driving mode.
I tried to find out if this is a common issue for all moto x users, but got no response in the app's thread.
Maybe this is expected behavior, since these are not Verizon text messages, but rather rerouted google voice text messages.
I just wanted to check if I'm alone with this issue, or if it affects everybody the same way.
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I think I already know the answer to this question but can't find it anywhere. Yes I know Moto voice assist will work with Google hangouts sending sms messages. What I want to know is if it can reply using hangouts and not through an sms. I almost exclusively use hangouts and only sms 1 person I know. Can the touchless controls reply directly using hangouts?
Yes, I have replied to multiple different texts sent through hangouts.
No it can't reply to hangouts messages, only SMS.
Thanks nimper. Thats what I thought
Hi All,
One of my more useful apps in the past was "Agent".
When driving, I could have it read messages out out loud and do voice reply to them.
The voice reply doesn't seem to work on MIUI 8.
Does anyone have any alternate suggestions?
- Frank