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Just curious if anyone else has noticed this:
1) The speakerphone is really loud. Kinda nice sometimes, but I would like to be able to turn it down a fair amount more than I can.
2) The built in voice to text really sucks. Takes forever. Though the mic on the Message app that comes with, works really, really, well and really fast. but I don't know how to use THAT mic when just using voice to text in email or messaging - either Handcent or the default app. I'm talking about when you get a text and it pops up on your screen. That voice to text is awesome. And Googles voice to text app works well, too. I just need to know how to use it instead of whatever the hell is being used by the default email and messaging and Handcent apps when you fire them up "maunally". If that makes sense.
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I've notice it, as well. I'm thinking of returning the phone. Battery life stinks, bloatware, poor voice recognition... Originally had the Samsung Charge until I realized there was no led light for notifications. Maybe I'll make the triad and return the Revolution for the Thunderbolt.
I've read there's a file that needs to be downloaded when you set the voice to text engine to Google. However, I'm not given an option to switch to Google in my settings. If anyone has a fix for the voice to text on LG, I'd also appreciate the help.
fsuchristy said:
I've notice it, as well. I'm thinking of returning the phone. Battery life stinks, bloatware, poor voice recognition... Originally had the Samsung Charge until I realized there was no led light for notifications. Maybe I'll make the triad and return the Revolution for the Thunderbolt.
I've read there's a file that needs to be downloaded when you set the voice to text engine to Google. However, I'm not given an option to switch to Google in my settings. If anyone has a fix for the voice to text on LG, I'd also appreciate the help.
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I did download the speech to text app and it works great... but no way to hook it into any particular app. I'll bet there's a config file somewhere...
But, if you root the phone, which is easy - I rooted my Charge and brought it back like that - then you can kill the bloat and up the battery life as a result. I honestly don't have a big issue with the battery like. It's not great, for sure, but it's no better or worse than my old Droid Incredible, really. An exrtra battery is a fact of life for most of these phones, I'd say. the TB is supposed to be worse.
Hi all.
I just lost my iPhone 4S (bummer). and I need to replace it with something. I am considering the Note but had a question...
The speach to text feature was my favorite on my iPhone, I would do MMS, email or any other typing by simply speaking into the microphone. The phone would turn my voice into text and I could send it on it's way.
Does the Note have a good Speach to Text feature?
Try vlingo
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I don't actually have the device yet, but I will keep that in mind when/if I do. Does that app compare to Siri favorably? Do you use it and do you like it? I just want to be able to create texts and email from voice. Not the commands but rather the actual text.
I am using TouchPal keyboard on my note I have found that it's got better voice recognition than Google itself
I have posted this using the voice recognition ...
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but if you are looking for an app like Siri. ... I don't think you will find any. .....well there is iris but it's not good for sending sms or messages ...its just a chat bot.....
you can try vlingo like ketan said but Siri is way better and you will be disappointed
Thanks both of you.
I am not nuts over Siri.. most of it is fairly useless and stupid.. I just want to be able to dictate text into an mms or email, and it sounds like either of these two apps do it fine.
Though it was funny telling Siri to "Remind me to kill myself tomorrow at 9am"...
the following day I got an alert saying "Kill yourself in 15 minutes"... we laughed a bit at that... not really useful but kinda fun.
oh yeah...forgot to ask.
Does the note connect to the newer samsung smart TVs the way the tab 10 and 7 do?
pat_smith1969 said:
I don't actually have the device yet, but I will keep that in mind when/if I do. Does that app compare to Siri favorably? Do you use it and do you like it? I just want to be able to create texts and email from voice. Not the commands but rather the actual text.
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Ya i got it.from.first thread, n thats y i sugested vlingo assistant. Asaik, it has same function. Even in certain mode you will see option of vlingo, whenever there is keyboard needed. Even samsung recommend it, just look to voice setting, you will find two option for voice recognisation google or samsung powered by vlingo.
Though i m mot using it, you can try yrself.
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Since the update to jellybean 4.1 i hear a voice when i scroll from one screen to the next. The voice tells to which screen i am going, like: four from six. The voice can not be turned off. Even when the sound is turned off, the voice stays. I' ve looked all over the settings off the phone, but i can't find an option to turn it off. Does anyone know how to get rid of this annoying thing?
Wear a hat made from tinfoil. That should block the voices.
Are you using a custom launcher?
Floortje said:
Since the update to jellybean 4.1 i hear a voice when i scroll from one screen to the next. The voice tells to which screen i am going, like: four from six. The voice can not be turned off. Even when the sound is turned off, the voice stays. I' ve looked all over the settings off the phone, but i can't find an option to turn it off. Does anyone know how to get rid of this annoying thing?
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been there, done that: talkback disabled, still got this mechanical voice calling: page four of seven etc.
Try totally disable talkback feature.
And I dont think you need to start 2 thread on the same topic.
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On my old phone with cyanogen (running off 4.2), the dialer app allowed me to search for a contact. For example, if I wanted to call 'Ben', I could dial 236 and it would show my contact named Ben. It would search both for part of the person's name, or their number (so I could start typing in 312-123 and it would suggest a contact who had that number).
I could have *sworn* this was working during my first few days with the moto x...otherwise I wouldn't have been able to call anybody without getting annoyed since this is my primary way of dialing numbers from my contact list.
Was there an app update that disabled this? Is there a setting I accidentally turned off? I couldn't find anything in the options...
What do I have to do to get this behavior again on my moto x? I know I could use TouchPal or some other replacement app, but I'd prefer to just use the built in phone app.
You need a 3rd party dialer
or when 4.3 gets to this phone we'll have it.
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You need a 3rd party dialer
or when 4.3 gets to this phone we'll have it.
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So it is entirely in my head that this worked before?
I basically either search from the dialer screen or click someone in recent calls, so when the phone/sim was new (blank recent calls), I would have had to search and I would think I would notice it.
I must be losing it
Yeah, it still bugs me that stock android before 4.3 doesn't have a feature that's been on HTC devices since Froyo.
Yeah, my galaxy S had it with the touchwiz dialer (pre-froyo even)...and my old nokia and motoroloa razr both functioned the same way too.
So when I switched to cyanogen and it was gone, I was not happy and switched to TouchPal dialer...but other than the search function, TouchPal was much worse than stock.
I've used S Voice and Google for 4 days each and in my opinion S Voice is the clear winner. Here's my top 5:
1) S Voice has very reliable always-on service whereas Google occasionally will glitch and stop responding to the wake up command until I reboot the Note 4.
2) S Voice accepts way more commands.
3) S Voice can perform functions and execute them instead of just bringing you to them. For example if you say "wake me up at 6:30AM" it will set the alarm for you, whereas Google brings up the page and you have to click "set alarm."
4) S Voice has a funny AI. You can say "Will you marry me?" and it will reply with "I would make a terrible spouse" or say "yeah baby" and it will respond with "I'm not your baby." Funny stuff.
5) S Voice has more secure always-on service because it allows you to pick the wake command so you can make your command,"I like pie" and it will work, whereas Google currently only supports "OK Google" which everyone knows from the commercials, and if you want to set it to work even if your phone is locked, you want a wake command that people are less likely to know.
What have your experiences been thus far?
To be honest I haven't given S Voice a try yet. I was surprises than Google Now works because in Poland it had very little support, but now it let me set an alarm and everything, nice. But I can't set Google Now to wake the phone - for some reason the option for it is turned off, maybe S Voice will work like that.
The new pop-up window is nice too, any app will stay open and S-Voice just pops up and closes down. Makes more sense than opening up a whole new page. Quite accurate understanding English as well.
Oh, nice. Does it affect battery?
Nice to know they improved s voice. It used to be inferior to google voice on the note 3. I might give it a try again.
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Oh, nice. Does it affect battery?
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Nope. I had S Voice a and Google Now always listening and had no noticable effect on battery life. I didn't really use'em but it did come handy at one or two occasions. I think it's efficient operation comes down to that extra chip both the SD805 and I think the Exynos variant has.
I love the S-voice and wanna use it all the time but I wish I can pull up the S-voice anytime with voice. I know it's easy double tapping the home button but Google can be pulled up anywhere with voice.
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I love the S-voice and wanna use it all the time but I wish I can pull up the S-voice anytime with voice. I know it's easy double tapping the home button but Google can be pulled up anywhere with voice.
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So can s-voice. It's in the settings. You can also turn on voice wake while locked.
For voice to wake. In my experience, it only halfway works to. Maybe it's because I use a custom command...but voice rarely wake it up.
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So can s-voice. It's in the settings. You can also turn on voice wake while locked.
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Maybe I'm missing it but the only option I can find is waking it up with voice while locked (voice wake-up option) nothing for when the screen is on, even on the home screen. The only way to pull it up is by double tapping home button.
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Maybe I'm missing it but the only option I can find is waking it up with voice while locked (voice wake-up option) nothing for when the screen is on, even on the home screen. The only way to pull it up is by double tapping home button.
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Huh? Look at that picture I posted. Check that option, then say "hi galaxy" or whatever you set your command to be and it'll wake up. It doesn't work all that well when you use a custom command.
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Thanks for posting those photos and instructions! But I already have both enabled even before I came to this post and it still would NOT take voice commands when you have the screen on, as in not on the lockscreen (or as I found out, also when you're using any app) but when you're in the home screen. Both those options are only for use when you're on the lockscreen or when the phone is sleeping. Now that I think about it, maybe it's because of my use of Nova Prime that's hindering the S-Voice to be invoked on the main home screen though...
The thing that i don't like is even though svoice turns on when i say hi galaxy, i still have to push the mic button to say my command. Google voice doesnt so that
Patch7 said:
The thing that i don't like is even though svoice turns on when i say hi galaxy, i still have to push the mic button to say my command. Google voice doesnt so that
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You don't need to push the mic button to issue your command. If you ran out of time to say your command, all you have to do is to say your wake up phrase again and it should accept your voice command then.
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You don't need to push the mic button to issue your command. If you ran out of time to say your command, all you have to do is to say your wake up phrase again and it should accept your voice command then.
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Thanks! That works great. Love it!!
I use svoice for making calls through by bluetooth headset. It works much much much better than google voice. Google voice is no more than a joke when you have non-english names, whereas svoice still does a great job. Another thing I love with SVoice is that it also utilizes the nicknames in your adress book. So you can use either the full name or the nickname.
This is very interesting. I must admit I completely ignored S-Voice when I bought the Note 4, as it wasn't brilliant on the Note 3. I also had got so used to Google's voice functions which did impress.
I just caught this thread and whoa! Samsung really have made some great changes to S-Voice on the Note 4 and I think I might actually start using it a bit more. So thanks for posting your observations
Samsung S-Voice command examples
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I took the trouble to type out all the available S-Voice examples, along with a few added examples for UK or International users. I hope you find it useful.
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I took the trouble to type out all the available S-Voice examples, along with a few added examples for UK or International users. I hope you find it useful.
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Awesome stuff! Thanks man. This confirms my suspicions that you cannot use s-voice to switch on mobile hotspot