When I'm at home by myself I need to use my bluetooth earphones/their built in mic together with live transcribe/speech-to-text a lot (now found under the accessibility menu, because for some reason giving it a home screen icon wasn't acceptable? Ugh), but I also often need to use my phone for other things (as one does).
Only problem is the app stops when put into the background (presumably because Google likes to make apps useless in the name of privacy and/or security...)
Is there a way to send apps like this to the background (in the sense that they aren't displayed on screen all the time) without suspending them or without pausing the mic/listening or something, using root/adb?
Additional info about live transcribe:
Use Live Transcribe - Android Accessibility Help
You can use Live Transcribe on your Android device to capture speech and sound and see them as text on your screen. Download and turn on Live Transcribe Note: If you have a Pixel phone, skip to the
support.google.com
Live Transcribe | Speech to Text App | Android
Use Live Transcribe to get instant speech to text captions in over 70 languages and dialects, right on your Android device.
www.android.com
Live Transcribe & Notification - Apps on Google Play
Real-time transcriptions of your conversations and sound event notifications
play.google.com
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Features:
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-Sync contacts with the YouMail server and manage them from your phone
-Manage custom greetings for individual contacts
-Block unwanted callers from calling your phone or leaving messages
-Full Bluetooth headset support (Mono and Stereo) for message playback
-AVRCP support to allow playback control over Bluetooth
-Unique CALL & DELETE feature (by swiping the Call buton into the Delete button)
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-Multiple homescreen widgets to display unheard message count, force a refresh, and get message previews
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great app, i been using it for a while. didnt know you were on xda as well.
I just wanted to let everyone know that a completely redesigned version 7 had been released. It's using material design, and has a few extra features, so please check it out.
When Verizon pushed out the KitKat update for the G2, one of the "features" I discovered is that voice dialing from a bluetooth headset got all messed up. Long-pressing the headset button still brings up a voice dialer, but it's an idiotic voice dialer that can't understand what I'm saying and even if it does, certain numbers it just goes "no entry" even though I have multiple numbers in that person's contact file. It's garbage.
There is a way to completely get rid of this and instead use Google Now when you long-press the button on a bluetooth headset. Steps are as follows:
1. Find and disable the pre-installed app called Voice Command
2. Install the app Bluetooth Launch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kin.bluetooth_launch&hl=en
3. Open Bluetooth Launch. It's going to be a bit funky looking because it's not optimized for higher-resolution screens. You'll see a bunch of really small text with overlapping buttons on the left. It's ugly, but it'll still work.
4. Scroll down to Google Search, tap on it, and it'll expand a list of a bunch of things. Tap on the one that says 'com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.VoiceSearchActivity'
5. Pair up your bluetooth headset, and long-press the button like you would to voice dial. You should get a popup that asks which app you want to use. Select Google Search and then 'do this always' to set the default.
This should pop you over to Google Now, which can recognize voice commands just fine, unlike the worthless LG Voice Command. It should also make Google Now the default behavior for long pressing the bluetooth headset button.
Nice write up. Stock voice command works well for me along with non NOW search. I've boycotted NOW for it's ridiculous battery drain. At one point NOW and location services were decent in battery saving, recent service updates have made it worse though.
Thank you sir for showing us how to get back to using Google Now. After the latest Google Search update, BT dialing activated Google Dial instead, and this is the only fix I have found for it. So far this is working great on my Sprint Note 3, and I bet it will work for everyone's phone.
I'm wondering if you get all notifications on the Gear live or only the apps that had been updated to work with the watch?
I'm specially wondering about 3er party SMSs clients and other like Whatapp and Instagram that I use a lot.
Thanks
All apps. Essentially any app that generates notification on phone.
You can select apps from which you don't want to receive notification on watch thru android wear settings on your phone.
Maturola said:
I'm wondering if you get all notifications on the Gear live or only the apps that had been updated to work with the watch?
I'm specially wondering about 3er party SMSs clients and other like Whatapp and Instagram that I use a lot.
Thanks
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As stated in google io:
Wear plugs into the 4.3+ notification system. Any notification generated will get converted to a "wear" notification/card
Additionally, any apps that use "notification actions" (not sure what the offical name is) such as; "delete" and "archive" in gmail notifications will get converted to "action buttons" in wear that call the exact same code on the phone, thus producing the same results. This is useful to remember for apps that have notification actions on your phone but haven't updated to support wear.
Additional functionality such as "display extended cards" or "stack multiple notifications" (including the thing that hangouts can do where tapping would bring you a history of the chat on the watch itself) or "reply by voice" types is what would require an "update to the code"...THIS is what people are looking for in apps that "update to support wear".
[**] for instance, whatsapp notification would show up, whatsapp does not have any notifications action buttons on my phone so all I would see is "open in phone" (probably) as a button in my wear device. If they update the app we could tap the wear card to see the full conversation (including the full message rather than just what you would normally see in the notification slide on your phone) slide to the right to get a button to "reply by voice".
It uses the new notification access thingy. All notifications get sent to watch. Can exclude apps
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I noticed that since yesterday, Google Now seems to have gotten reduced functionality, namely, in setting reminders.
I used to use voice commands all the time to leave reminders, specially location-based ones.
I noticed now that whether I say "reminder" or "alarm" it sets an alarm... and can no longer set them to a specific location like "remind me when I get home to..." and only at a specific time.
I also noticed that it appears to be hooking into HTC's own Alarm app instead of using it's own alarm/notification system.
Is this something HTC updated in it's internal apps that is taking over the reminder/alarm feature of Google Now? Or is Google Now itself doing this from adding support for notifications from 3rd party apps? Any way to revert it back?
same here
Cyber Akuma said:
I noticed that since yesterday, Google Now seems to have gotten reduced functionality, namely, in setting reminders.
I used to use voice commands all the time to leave reminders, specially location-based ones.
I noticed now that whether I say "reminder" or "alarm" it sets an alarm... and can no longer set them to a specific location like "remind me when I get home to..." and only at a specific time.
I also noticed that it appears to be hooking into HTC's own Alarm app instead of using it's own alarm/notification system.
Is this something HTC updated in it's internal apps that is taking over the reminder/alarm feature of Google Now? Or is Google Now itself doing this from adding support for notifications from 3rd party apps? Any way to revert it back?
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it's driving me crazy! I need my reminders back!
Known issue for the past few days. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/websearch/vu0eMzw83MU[1-25]
From what I've read you can type in the reminder and it'll work. It's when you do it via voice and it has to go out to google servers does the bug pop up. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.
**Updated 5/27/2017**
After installing this profile Google Home will announce your selected incoming notifications by app name and subject line.
Video Demo
Part 1.
1. Download and install Tasker, AutoNotifications BETA, and AutoCast BETA (you will need the Full Paid versions). Also download Notifications.prf.xml
2. Once you have received the AutoNotifications BETA update via the Play Store open the app, grant all permissions, press "Enable Notification Intercept" and grant notification access. Leave all other default settings and exit AutoNotifications.
3. Once you have received the AutoCast BETA update from the play store open the app, grant all permissions, select "Manage Cast Devices," then press + to add your Google Home then exit the app.
Part 2.
1. Place the Notifications.prf.xml file in your device’s Tasker/profiles folder (if these folders do not exist then create them).
2. Open Tasker and long-press “Profiles,” then select “Import” and import the xml file from Part 1.
3. Back-out of Tasker to save the profile. Done!
You can customize your list of apps to announce by pressing the "Notifications" profile in Tasker to expand the profile, then press "AutoNotification Intercept Event...", then the pencil to configure. Press "Apps" to select your apps. Google Home will now announce incoming notifications including the name of the app and subject line (you can disable by placing your phone on silent). Enjoy!
Tip: include the Google App in your selected apps to hear your Google reminders on GH.
**Important**
- GH must be connected to the same wifi network as your phone in order to announce the notification.
- Turn off battery optimization for Tasker, AutoNotifications, AutoCast or your device may disable these apps when idle.
Other Google Home Projects:
- Ask Google Home - Who Called?
- How-To Hear Missed Call and Unread Text Message Reminder on Google Home
- How-To Make Google Home Announce Incoming Calls and Auto-Read New Text Messages
- Google Home - Quick Todoist Update and Recurring Reminder
- Google Home Spotify Alarm
- How-To Reply to Text Message with Google Home
- How-To Have Google Home Read Your Last Text Message
- How-To Send Text Messages via Google Home (Text Any Contact or Ph#)
- How-To Initiate Phone Calls via Google Home
- How-To Create Calendar Events using Google Home
- Start Navigation with Google Home
Instead of Silent to prevent any notification announcements, can I change it to Do Not Disturb instead? Would changing %SILENT ~ off to %DO NOT DISTURB ~ off work?
Ken L said:
Instead of Silent to prevent any notification announcements, can I change it to Do Not Disturb instead? Would changing %SILENT ~ off to %DO NOT DISTURB ~ off work?
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I haven't tried that but it sounds like it should work.
muniz_ri said:
I haven't tried that but it sounds like it should work.
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Yes, it does work, but it's not that straight forward. I've attempted many trial and errors and finally discovered one that worked for us (since we have the same phone).
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MbVIj9tRxYOpepIy1
I also removed the reading of the message from the notification and unread text reminder, keeping just a notification of a text received from sender. I didn't feel too comfortable having my text auto-read out loud.
Multiple Google Home's
Thanks for this, it works a treat when casting to one google home.
However i tried to get it to cast to my speaker group which just causes the app to crash. Do you know of any work arounds or is it just not capable of doing this yet ?
Unfortunately the app can currently only cast to one device at a time.
Cool things here! A Question Please, - When I import the tasker.xml, are then all my other tasker-tasks still there?
Thanks!
roselanguste said:
Cool things here! A Question Please, - When I import the tasker.xml, are then all my other tasker-tasks still there?
Thanks!
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Yes
muniz_ri said:
Yes
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Thanks, I have already running Three of this Wonderful Profiles, and it is awesome!
Thank You very much!
italione said:
Thanks for this, it works a treat when casting to one google home.
However i tried to get it to cast to my speaker group which just causes the app to crash. Do you know of any work arounds or is it just not capable of doing this yet ?
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I know Your Question is a time ago, but I wanted to let You know, that it is Possible to cast to more than one Google-Home! - You must only go in the Tasker-Profile, tab on the profile to expand it, tab on the right side in the expanded profile (tasks of the profile), and setup the last task a second time the same but now choose a further Google-Home-Device, done! So the Google-Home's speaking out the information one after another, how it set in the Tasker-Profile! It's really Great!
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muniz_ri said:
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I have seen Your awesome Profiles, and in the moment I'm addicted to it! I wanted to let You know, because I have seen that in the past Someone have asked about to cast to more than one Google-Home, and You answered that yet is not possible! - Probably You know this anyway, but in case not, I have found a Workaround in the way that I have set up the last task in the profile (Autocast) a second time, and choosed a second Google-Home, and now the Google-Home's speaking out the informations one after another, in the sequence it is setup in the Tasker-Profile! So it is possible to setup many Google-Home's as Wish with this Wonderful Profiles!
Thanks for Your Awesome Work and Time!:good: