Hey everyone, I just recently made the switch to the Moto X and I love it. One of my favorite features is definitely touchless control. Unless I'm mistaken it's only supposed to respond to my voice yet after several attempts to train it to my voice it will still respond to other people's voice and even sometimes to ambient noise such as the TV.
Strange thing is a coworker of mine also has a Moto X, (it responds to his voice almost every time) yet his voice won't respond to me. Anyone else getting this issue? It's certainly not make or break but it's kinda annoying.
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MakoVince said:
Hey everyone, I just recently made the switch to the Moto X and I love it. One of my favorite features is definitely touchless control. Unless I'm mistaken it's only supposed to respond to my voice yet after several attempts to train it to my voice it will still respond to other people's voice and even sometimes to ambient noise such as the TV.
Strange thing is a coworker of mine also has a Moto X, (it responds to his voice almost every time) yet his voice won't respond to me. Anyone else getting this issue? It's certainly not make or break but it's kinda annoying.
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Does it do it very often? Did you train the phone in a quiet room? Mine does it every once in a while but not often at all. I trained it with no ambient noise. Very rarely will someone else make it wake up but I read if you train it in a loud room or once with a lot of ambient noise, you may have a problem.
My Moto X at first was perfect.. then i wiped it clean after i upgraded to 4.4 and re-trained my voice. and then it started picking up everyone elses voices and recognizing them as commands as well. I locked myself in the closet and retrained my voice a couple of times. now it's perfect once again. give that a try!
aldouse said:
My Moto X at first was perfect.. then i wiped it clean after i upgraded to 4.4 and re-trained my voice. and then it started picking up everyone elses voices and recognizing them as commands as well. I locked myself in the closet and retrained my voice a couple of times. now it's perfect once again. give that a try!
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I did this and it's really better here.
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Has anyone experienced any issues with touchless controls? ie "Ok Google Now"
Seems my phone is cursed. While sitting on the table tonight it I said something to my wife which sounded nothing remotely like "Ok, Google Now" and it decided to call a very work sensitive number. Luckily I caught it before anything happened. This has been happening a lot lately and will trigger without any audio cues at all. Is it just me or has anyone else had issues?
I've also noticed mines randomly turning on touchless controls. I haven't had it actually prompt any commands but usually it will happen when my phone is in my pocket and then I'll hear the notification sound when touchless controls turns on. I noticed it only happens if there's a lot of noise around me, usually if there's people talking. I've even had it happen to me while I was driving and my radio was on kind of loud and I wasn't even talking. I'm also worried that it'll call someone without me knowing but luckily it hasn't happened. And I also agree with you that even though nothing close to the words "OK Google Now" were said, that it still turns on touchless controls. Hopefully it can be fixed in a future update.
Ok, good. At least I know I'm not going crazy. Two of my contacts are a hospital ER and a 911 call center. They're the last people I want to be calling because my phone is acting up.
One thing you can do is enable the "confirm before call" option. Then if it does decide to go a little crazy it shouldn't actually call unless someone says something that sounds like "call".
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One thing you can do is enable the "confirm before call" option. Then if it does decide to go a little crazy it shouldn't actually call unless someone says something that sounds like "call".
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If I reenable voiceless I'll definitely do that. ThanX!
You could try to retrain the controls via the settings menu
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Has anyone experienced any issues with touchless controls? ie "Ok Google Now"
Seems my phone is cursed. While sitting on the table tonight it I said something to my wife which sounded nothing remotely like "Ok, Google Now" and it decided to call a very work sensitive number. Luckily I caught it before anything happened. This has been happening a lot lately and will trigger without any audio cues at all. Is it just me or has anyone else had issues?
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I've experienced this, too, but not to the degree you've described. While watching TV my phone would activate Google Now in response to something it heard from the TV. Having retraining the touchless control phrase, that hasn't happened since (fingers crossed). I've never had the phone activate without any audio cues.
My wife had something of the opposite problem: her Moto X insisted that she use a perky, upbeat voice or it wouldn't listen to her. Retraining has dealt with that issue, too.
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You could try to retrain the controls via the settings menu
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I've retrained it a few times. That's not really the issue. I can be in a quiet, dark room, typing at the keyboard and it will suddenly kick on saying it didn't understand what I said. A lot of times it's 'come alive' while in my pocket. If it weren't for the tell tell ding I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Yeah mine does it too. During movies, people talking. Its great.
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Mine was also doing this really frequently. I initially trained and retrained it in my house which has stone floors and echoes like crazy.
After training it in my car which has really dead acoustics it seems to have stopped doing it.
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Scotlac said:
Mine was also doing this really frequently. I initially trained and retrained it in my house which has stone floors and echoes like crazy.
After training it in my car which has really dead acoustics it seems to have stopped doing it.
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Just went in the closet and retrained. No echo. We'll see if this helps.
mta: Since retraining the catchphrase I haven't had 1 misfire. Seems that any extra noise when training will completely throw this thing off kilter.
I just recently bought a brand new moto x off contract. Great phone. This should've been the nexus 5. Anyway, I am having a problem with touchless control. Whenever I wake it up by, ok Google now, and hit the back to cancel. It makes the usual sound but with static. I uninstalled the updates since I can't delete it and downloaded it again. It fixed it. I noticed that with just Google search by tapping and canceling the mic, it doesn't give me this problem. Anyone else have this?
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I just recently bought a brand new moto x off contract. Great phone. This should've been the nexus 5. Anyway, I am having a problem with touchless control. Whenever I wake it up by, ok Google now, and hit the back to cancel. It makes the usual sound but with static. I uninstalled the updates since I can't delete it and downloaded it again. It fixed it. I noticed that with just Google search by tapping and canceling the mic, it doesn't give me this problem. Anyone else have this?
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Don't have that kind of problem. But I've noticed something else: the voice recognition is way too sensitive. Not only that I don't have to say "Ok Google Now" - OK is enough, but sometimes it reacts to my other words too.
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Don't have that kind of problem. But I've noticed something else: the voice recognition is way too sensitive. Not only that I don't have to say "Ok Google Now" - OK is enough, but sometimes it reacts to my other words too.
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I also had this problem, but with time, its less and less often. But if you've setup your voice recognition some time ago, you should try it again and wait a couple of weeks to see if the problem is solved.
Never had any static though. Do you have any third party equalizer of something like that? Also check if you have any open background app that can interfere with your audio.
Wow didn't realize topic title till now. Toothless. Lol. Auto correct. The voice recognition is very sensitive. Activated by others talking in public.
Techno Droid said:
Wow didn't realize topic title till now. Toothless. Lol. Auto correct. The voice recognition is very sensitive. Activated by others talking in public.
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Yeah, I was wondering about the 'toothless'
I had a similar issue: Touchless control was activating on ambient noise, or even a loud TV. The key was to re-train the launch phrase in a VERY quiet room. My friend trained his X and there was a barking dog next door while he did it. It activated all-the-time, seemingly out of nowhere.
Once we re-trained carefully, in an extremely quiet environment, it no longer activates un-intentionally.
You might give this a shot! To Re-Train, go to Settings > Touchless Control
I'm currently using a Nexus 5 and I find the voice dictation terrible when I'm in the freeway with wind noise is the background (windows closed). It stops listening half way through sentences or even after the first word sometimes. Its happened multiple times where I give up because it absolutely can't translate what I'm saying or just stops working halfway through the sentence.
Is the new Moto X any better at blocking out ambient noises since it has more microphones? Anyone with any experience with both of these phones for a comparison?
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I tried it couples times on my girl's Moto X while I was driving with the radio music on to ask what's the song on radio or navigation
it works pretty decent that it recognize what it has to do without lowering down the volume on the radio
the phone were sitting in cup holders(passenger side, I put mine on the driver's side)
I don't remember if the windows were opened though
the voice recognition of voice input comes from google itself, I dont know how much it would affect compared to the simple function
Hope this helps
Well the Moto X is way better thah nexus 5. The moto x has the noise cancelling tech and it works pretty well. U will surely find an improvement in recognition.
If you activate it then it's very accurate but if you use the one where it announces texts or calls, it struggles for me.
I turned off the Moto Voice and went with just OK Google, and the performance is so much better. All you lose us the ability to speak to your phone while it's off (which barely worked 50% of the time) and the pointless voice commands like "check my Verizon bill".
Has anyone experienced this? Seems to happen often where Moto Voice will activate and ask for commands.
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Has anyone experienced this? Seems to happen often where Moto Voice will activate and ask for commands.
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I've seen in on disconnecting from car bluetooth.
Once or twice.
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Any way to lessen? or what causes this to happen?
I've had this happen 3-4 times since I got it on Thursday, so they definitely need to tweak the software to be a little more accurate.
Re-record your voice launch phrase in a very quiet environment.
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Re-record your voice launch phrase in a very quiet environment.
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Yes, this is the answer. My first turbo never randomly activated with my very basic phrase (Okay Turbo). My second one did it all the time and it became very frustrating, until I re-recorded it.
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I've seen in on disconnecting from car bluetooth.
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I found the cause of mine. I use Tasker and had it doing a Media Stop Key emulation which seems to be what was triggering it.
I too had the moto voice randomly activating. I just picked a more complex phase and that did the trick.
it seems shutting down Google now solves alot
I had moto voice pop up while at the movie theater during Interstellar last night. Had my phone on silent and everything, but it made the loud ding noise anyway. It must have thought someone in the movie said "OK Google." This is the only time I've had it come up without my voice command, but just a heads up to movie-goers.
My activation phrase is Hey Turbo Turbo, it seems to trigger repeatedly when in the car, usually with the radio on, sometimes with it off. It gotten so bad I had to disable voice activations.
For me in the car, moto maxx wake up like if I said my phrase "ok moto maxx" even watching my tv too..
Definitely it's a bug
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Use "OK Google Now"
No problems!
anyone able to fully test the turbo and moto voice in a car environment please? maybe with windows open also.
i would like to confirm if the turbo can handle all the touchless functions while the car has the windows open.
On the note3, it is unable to differentiate voice from car engine/wind noise and thus continues to listen until it times out and thus recognises nothing useful at all., totally useless in the car.
Im hoping the turbo mics are able to block out the wind and engine noise and such.
if it all works, im hoping to root the phone and add custom commands so nearly everything can be performed without touching the phone.
I'll give moto voice a few stress tests. I'll post back with results.
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For me.. Moto voice has a tendency to pick up road sound....I'll be done talking and it'll keep listening..Microphone seems uber sensitive..
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ccheww said:
I'll give moto voice a few stress tests. I'll post back with results.
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nice thanks. its one of the main reasons to moving over to a turbo from a note3, for me anyways.
dano1282 said:
For me.. Moto voice has a tendency to pick up road sound....I'll be done talking and it'll keep listening..Microphone seems uber sensitive..
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Really? cos thats what my note3 in doing now, makes the google now voice service useless unless your in a car that is silent.
So, Is this with the windows down? so it cant separate wind noise or car engine noise?
Windows up or down.. doesn't make a difference..
thats a shame, hopefully someone finds a work around.. thx!
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thats a shame, hopefully someone finds a work around.. thx!
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I'll report some better findings. I use Moto voice in my car all the time for placing phone calls and short text messages. I also use the voice recognition of Swype for longer texts/email replies.
Generally I'm in a Mazda 3 which is a bit quieter than the cargo van i also drive. In the car with the windows up, it always recognizes the wake up phrase and as long as there isn't a commercial vehicle next to me, it also recognizes my commands. When Moto voice doesn't recognize the commands, it punts the voice data over to Google Now which can usually finish the job. In the cargo van, i usually have to loudly speak the wake up phrase, and it almost always needs Google Now to finish the task.
I find the voice controls and recognition much better than on S4/5 and can easily use it without worry or frustration in a car.
Got my turbo on Sunday. I picked it over a note 4 because of the touch less control. After spending a few days with it and constantly trying to use the touch less feature. I must say it sucks. Its pretty good at picking up the wake line. But after that its a hit or miss. I have to turn off my radio every time when I have to use touch less because it won't stop listen with the ratio running. Overall I don't think the touch less control is ready for prime. I'm at the verge of turning this feature off completely.
phibo said:
Got my turbo on Sunday. I picked it over a note 4 because of the touch less control. After spending a few days with it and constantly trying to use the touch less feature. I must say it sucks. Its pretty good at picking up the wake line. But after that its a hit or miss. I have to turn off my radio every time when I have to use touch less because it won't stop listen with the ratio running. Overall I don't think the touch less control is ready for prime. I'm at the verge of turning this feature off completely.
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I wouldn't expect it to work with the radio on, it is listening for human voice after all. Once you unlock it, any words (yours, your passenger, or the radio) start to get analyzed. It does ignore music without lyrics and auto noise.
I've had really good experiences with the voice. Of course it will pick up the radio. It's kind of silly to think it could pick out your voice from all kinds of ambient noise. I usually just kill/mute the radio while I use the voice. It's only for a few seconds anyways.
If there is a lot of road noise or there is a strong crosswind that I can hear in the cabin of the car, Moto Voice will tell me it's a little noisy and I will need to speak up. But as long as I speak a little louder and clearer, it works really well. I just need to get another car dock that fits the Turbo. My old Moto X dock is too small.
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Thanks for the replies everyone, now im back on the fence again
i do know the the tubro wouldnt have the ability to isolate different voices so definitely would lower/ mute the radio.
If voice control is something you REALLY want, I can say that my Moto 360 lets me voice control my Turbo while in my Mazda Miata, with the top down, at 75 mph.
Since this topic is in the "accessories" category, I figured I could mention this!