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[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
Am I the only one who thinks Siri and Google voice are practically the same thing? I can say to my phone "weather forecast" and within seconds it opens up Google search with my weather as the main thing. Or I can say "convert 34 euros to dollars" and boom it is right there.

I see no difference other than Siri just giving you a "prettier" response. I bet you Siri is using Google underneath to use as its search engine.

By the way, if you think Google voice command is unusable you are probably using it when you have a bad data connection or when on edge. Google voice command uses data connection for some reason, and to run fast on real time you should be on 3g or wifi.

When I have a good data connection, Google Voice command is practically 100 percent reliable, 100 percent accurate, fast and practically instantaneous.

Anyone know why Google voice command requires a fast data connection? I shouldn't need a data connection to say "dial steve." I never understood that.
[Vibrant General] Hung0702:
You have to speak casually. Don't enunciate your words, just speak as though you were talking to a friend. If you usually say runnin' instead of "running," keep doing that. Your omission of that "g" is present in other words as well because it is your regional accent, and trying to change your speech makes it difficult for Google Voice Search to learn how you speak.

This is what makes Siri a little better, because it also continues to employ an older method of trying to interpret each word in American English after it has made an attempt to learn how you speak. It will reference what it thinks YOU are saying, then it checks with what it thinks an American English SPEAKER is saying. Thus, when you speak casually, both should give you equivalent results. When you speak into the phone like there's a Dell CSR on the other line, then Siri should give you better results because–over time–GVS becomes much more reliant on how it thinks you speak.

Moral of the story: Google Voice Search is smart and understands English. You don't have to speak to it like it's 5 or foreign. Speak naturally and consistently with your normal speech.
[Vibrant General] dardani89:
I've used Google voice for a while. Am I the only one that knows it tunes to your specific accent. It has a built in voice recognition feature that if checked makes the app better (with you) over time with use.
[Vibrant General] larryvand:
Get Google Voice actions or Vlingo. It does everything Siri does and more. And it works on every Android phone with Android 2.0 and up (which is 95% of all Androids out there). The Siri on the other hand does NOT work with ANY iPhone out there but the iphone4Sux...

Here is what Forrester analyst Charles Golvin had to say about Siri:

Forrester believes that consumers will be much more slow to adopt this new interface than they did Apple's revolutionary touchscreen of its first iPhone.

If everyone who purchased an iPhone 4S used Siri for most of the interactions it was intended, we would have a cacophony of queries uttered in homes, streets and offices.

Who are you talking to on the phone, grandma asks? Siri! You shout back. Who's she? Wonders grandma. You get the idea. This is no surefire solution; it will take a lot of getting used to at a time when people are still typing on their phones more than speaking into them for anything but voice calls.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Apple bought Siri. Microsoft bought TellMe.

Who cares.

What matters is that Google's Voice Recognitions now lags behind Android and iOS (on a 4S, at least), and people want to know if it will be improved.

God. When will people answer questions instead of going on fanboi rants about how innovative one company or another is. No one cares. They only care about how well their device works.

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They don't give equivalent results all the time. I have Android (FroYo) and WP7 (Mango). Google's Voice Recognition is behind TellMe (what Mango uses), and if Siri works as well as Apple says it does, it will be better than Microsoft's implementation. From what I've seen, Gingerbread didn't make any huge inroads there and both employ the Cloud for their Voice Recognition services, IIRC. The competition is just catching up and surpassing them in some ways, and the ridiculously good Voice Recognition and GPS accuracy is one of the best things about Mango.

If you haven't used a Mango phone and used the Voice Recognition on it, then you have no decent basis for comparison, TBQH. No one has used Siri yet - at least not anyone on this forum so we have to go on speculation as far as that's concerned.
[Vibrant General] larryvand:
Yes, yes, yes....

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Applicatio...le-Speech-Recognition-in-Catchup-Mode-426413/

Google is concerned enough about Siri's potential that is has shifted a key speech recognition engineer, Dave Burke, from the U.K. to join the Android team at Google's Mountain View. Calif. headquarters, according to Mobile India. Burke developed Google's mobile voice search app, among other tools.

With Burke and Mike Cohen, Google's director of speech technology, who created the T9 predictive text technology when he founded Nuance Communications, Google has more than enough engineering forepower to accept the gauntlet Apple has thrown down with Siri.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
You know whats funny. With Android you have a Widget right on your homescreen to always tell you the current weather, with clouds/sun animation and all. Apple think siri is so cool "ohh look I can talk to my phone and ask it the weather." Stupid, Android widgets are better, the weather is constantly there, no need to take the extra thirty seconds to talk to your phone and wait for a response.

Google voice action/commands is the same thing as Suri. Nothing special about suri other than a pretty interface.
[Vibrant General] christpuncher:
This is just more unnecessary technology from ANY company. I don't want to ask my phone a question. That's why I have thumbs. Its the same as motion controlled gaming. Totally pointless.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
i just tested the google voice search. i spoke completely normal and asked 'what's the weather like tomorrow' and it brought up monday's forecast (in part of a google search). however, if i ask 'what's on my calendar tomorrow' it googles that, which is useless. asking it to 'play slayer' brought up slayer in my google music beta, but did not start playing it.

so, it's not bad/unusable, but still has a ways to go. as for siri, when i was watching the demo video i couldn't stop laughing when the phone said 'let me think'. wtf? i won't put up with my phone telling me to let it think. it made me think of the invader zim episode where his computer is coughing.

as for needing a good internet connection, i'm sure siri works the same way. there is no way your phone can process voice commands like their servers can, so it offloads the work. natural language processing is pretty intensive.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
the "let me think" is a loading distraction.

When you start your phone, do you want it to say the VIBRANT, and then the bootscreen, or do you want it to be black during the whole thing and not let you know the phone's even being turned on?

It would be so retarded saying "whats the weather tomorrow" -long motherf'ing pause- "Good."

LOL
[Vibrant General] vapotrini:
Same here. Never got why the hell it needs data for simple commands.

My MORE than 5 YEARS old pocket pc had a program called voice command and it didn't need any stupid data connection to do anything. And funnily enough, it was/is far more reliable than Google voice. Really frustrating.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
i know the purpose, i just think it's a very bad choice.... 'checking', 'loading', etc. are much better, but really, what it should do is repeat what you said giving you an auditory confirmation that it got it right (if it's going to take a min, otherwise just spit out the answer). anthropomorphization of technology like this is annoying; and possibly even frightening/eerie to some people.

as for the loading, sure the screen could be blank, or it could show what it's doing (like fedora used to do, showing each check and the result). either way, it's not an animated face saying 'yo, bro, i'll have your home screen for you in a minute, i just gotta eat first'.

technology doesn't 'think'. yet.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Sure it does.

When you "think" your brain is basically "searching" something thats already been stored there before and bringing it back.

Google basically does the same thing, you type something, it "thinks" or "searches" for that answer.
[Vibrant General] Raistline:
I have to disagree with this quite a bit. If all your brain ever did when thinking it so to look back and pre-stored information then there would never be any new discoveries, no new thought, no new ideas and hence void the need for conversation except to give unknown information from one being to the next.

Remembrance could be described as nothing but pulling out old information but the creation of new ideas and thoughts are far more complex than that. Because of this fact, computer does not think. It cannot take information from 2 different streams and come up with a new idea or concept. It cannot add 2 and 2 without us telling it the rules.

As someone that works in IT, I loathe the statement that the computer is "thinking" while it is loading or while the user is waiting on it. It is processing, loading or writing, it does nothing else.

End Rant.
[Vibrant General] dardani89:
Didn't IBM come up with a new kind of processor that is revolutionary in the sense that it evolves due to environmental stimuli? I don't think they're using anymore transistor like processors, even on the quantum level.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
someone implemented an artificial neural network in hardware. don't remember who, though.
[Vibrant General] clj575:
I used vlingo and t9 keyboard with dragon for about 2 minutes each and then deleted it... like someone else said i went back to thumbs. It's cool but I don't see many using it often once the new wears off.
[Vibrant General] MailenJokerbell:
Am I the only lonely, lonely person that wishes to be able to talk to Cleverbot?
[Vibrant General] s1lenz:
...and im sure someone 10 years ago was like "why do i need gps i have maps! stupid pointless technology if you ask me...."
[Vibrant General] rmeden:
Keep in mind we have no idea how good Siri is.. Google Voice Command could be better!

You can't judge response time or performance by demos or commercials. They're staged to look good, or simply fabricated!

Look at the commercial of folks using an iPad on the beach. Not possible!

Robert
[Vibrant General] christpuncher:
Yeah not the same at all. Enjoy talking to your phone when I can do the exact same thing faster by typing.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
Sure it did.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Google Voice Search is slower than TellMe, but slightly faster than Vlingo. Siri doesn't seem all that incredibly fast, but it's not about the fact that it does Voice Recognition. It's about the fact that it uses AI to aid it in basically having conversations with the user. It gets better as you use it, just like Google, Microsoft, and VLingo voice recognition.

I've found Microsoft TellMe to be faster, especially for it's cloud capabilities, probably due to Microsoft Azure being faster than Google's Cloud Services. It's also more accurate than Google, but I've found Vlingo to be more accurate than both Google and Microsoft, but somewhat slower than both in *some* instances.

However, Vlingo is way more flexible than the voice features in WP7.5 and Android. It can post updates to social networks, and does tend to understand more complex sentence constructions than those as well.

I can tell Vlingo "I'm looking for a Spanish Restaurant in Brooklyn, New York" (I'm no where near Brooklyn) and it finds they all, perfectly.

Another benefit of Mango and Vlingo is the user interface for results is simply better.

Vlingo is cheap on Android. It's Free with Ads and $1.99 to remove the ads. I paid for it. It works well. Voice Search/Actions is useless to me. It's not nearly as accurate as TellMe and Vlingo. When dictating longer texts and emails... It's a blowout for Vlingo >> TellMe >>>>>>> Google, in my experience.

All of them use Cloud Services in their software, BTW. That's why they have to "think."

TellMe thinks fastest, followed by Google and then Vlingo. Vlingo's longer thinking time is more than made up for by its accuracy and flexibility, though.

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I *probably* didn't, but then again it probably didn't "get better" because all of the data it used was stored on the device, and static. So you had to talk like a robot ALL THE TIME. It never adapted to your personal speech patterns.
[Vibrant General] svladimir:
Hey guys,

Siri is something much bigger than just voice-enabled search.

Can you create a calendar entry using google voice or change music volume ?
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
"Turn my volume up"

"By how much?"

"just turn it up"

"By how much?"

siriception
[Vibrant General] engineer14:
erm, tell me how well those thumbs work when you are driving or walking. also tell me your wpm with your thumbs as opposed to your mouth!
[Vibrant General] ilordvader:
Some Video comparison would be nice :)
[Vibrant General] MoWeb:
I've been using speak to it assistant. It's similar to siri. Once they improve it lookout siri.
[Vibrant General] o0stryxs0o:
If you are on Gingerbread there is an app called Speaktoit. This app is extremely close to Siri more so than Vlingo. I've been using it the past few days and really like it and when tested back to back with siri, it would recognize my speech better and was faster at answers. I like Siri a lot, I like how it utilizes other apps and a cloud data base for many answers. I think Google Voice recognition was already there they just didn't innovate. That being said, as far as speech recognition and voice commands/controls go. If android can create something that can become a voice controlled assistant, particularly one that is more intuitive and accessible than siri they will completely blow it out of the water. Apple knows this....Apple is the character that simply wants to be first on the board.
[Vibrant General] donnygg:
Speaktoit seems to have problem with non-American accent. This seems to be an issue with Google voice engine. The speech-to-text engine for Vlingo works much better for me but it's not very integrated with the OS. If only I could use Vlingo's STT engine with speaktoit, that would be great.
[Vibrant General] PJcastaldo:
First ill say who cares about voice commands.. its something we have had along time and i never used it before.. Now for fun I just tried out a few of the commands that work with voice and its worked flawlessly.. I know there are quite a few commands that work and I think with Apple releasing Siri Google will respond with an even better version of what we have now.

Here is a video.. forgive the lag screencaster uses a bit of resources.. but when im not doing a video it is alot faster..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=01x525XigbA
[Vibrant General] christpuncher:
Yeah that's just what we need. More roundabout distractions while we're driving or walking. Whether its typing or talking into your phone, you shouldn't be doing either. Also 90wpm thx. Try talking that fast.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
90 words per minute is nothing for me talking wise, and I don't even talk THAT much.just find a interesting subject and you'll talk alot, same goes for typing
[Vibrant General] bstromberg:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/17/iris-is-sort-of-siri-for-android/

a very promising alternative to all other voice command apps. those dudes threw it together in 8 hours. check it out. its very alpha right now, but has promise.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
*****Ported Boot Animations for Samsung Galaxy Ace*****

***Please rate this thread accordingly***​

I have ported all these boot animations from other devices to our beloved SAMSUNG GALAXY ACE.

Downloads:

New Nexus Jelly Bean

Android Factory

Litening Rom

Previous Ports:

GingerReal

Nexus Prime

You can also download these BAs from below attachments.

Installation instruction:

Samsung Stock/CyanogenMod 7:

- Download the zip file

- Place zip in your SD card

- Flash zip using CWM

Thanks to all original creators of these bootanimations

Download Meter:

All bootanimations = 600+ downloads = 35 Thanks...:(:(:(:(
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] nims11:
but dude i tried original from android app and theme section

its automatically fit my ace's screen

but this one more nice thanks
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] scoffyburito:
Screenshot?

Seny from my Android 2.3 SDK :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] CallMeVentus:
There's no link .

Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Download link available now.... :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] imranaryan:
how to replace BA on CM7 RC2+Latest Fix 2.3.7

EDIT : i found the way ...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] CallMeVentus:
I love it so much . Thanks !

Forever living in my Galaxy Ace using XDA App
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] hypergamer1231:
Hey thanks a lot mate looks good and works well on behradghs cm 7s latest build
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ivansb89:
i did it :D and it's awesome :D:D:D Thanks
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] tyraelasd:
works perfectly, thank you very much
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] sghens:
Download the attached zip file (don't change the name)

Use Root explorer or same kind of tool.

Copy the boot animation from SD card and paste it to system/media folder (please don't forget to unmount by pressing r/w)

Reboot

I did it and reset but nothing happens is reboot into recovery?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] easswar:
hey tried your method, didn't work.

then copied it into /data/local/ and it worked

I'm using GingerReal1.4

Dunno any specifics, but you can add that to the first post if you want...

Thx a ton btw, its awesome!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] scoffyburito:
Try plopping it in system/media
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] sghens:
Not for me :(

Enviado desde mi GT-S5830L usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] easswar:
/system/media/ did not work for me, /data/local/ did...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] scoffyburito:
Haha I have always put mine in system/media and it always works if you don't have one in data/local of course
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Ztrindberg:
Don't know what I do wrong? I try both places but no luck. Should I extract the file.?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] imranaryan:
where can i find sound for this prime BA
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] lailero:
How did you do???

Thanx!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] nims11:
just put bootanimation.zip into system/media/

and change permission to rw-r-r

then reboot

there is nothing new way to find :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] rsgarcia888:
what if i want the power on boot sound, where i have to put the file and what permission to give?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Did you manage to run this BootAnimation?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Ztrindberg:
No but maybe because on stockrom?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] 1jesper1:
Beautifull boot animation!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] -Aatif-:
is it working on galaxy ace ???
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Yes. I modded the original bootanimation to work on Galaxy Ace.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Check this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1161423
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] -Aatif-:
ok thanks i will try it soon .....
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] valakas:
Great Work and runs so smooth! Love it, thx
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] simplifieden:
so i can do this in GRIF,s latest cm7 version??
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] hanxgen3:
nice..

very nice... thank you..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] pariksheetsharma:
I have installed it and hit Thanks :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
yes, you can run this BA on any rom
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] dracula3020:
amazing pretty. Thank for share :p
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] prestonmale:
love it, thank you. would love this as a live wallpaper. wonder if its possible to do.

edit....found a site that explains it and will have a go at doing it myself as soon as i get time....

edit2...its now also my live wallpaper. sweet
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Would you mind sharing your LWP?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ivanrcks95:
instead of mine having that animation my screen just goes white and the goes to lock screen???

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its ok i got it working now it looks awesome!!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] amrith.28:
(please don't forget to unmount by pressing r/w)

what does that mean ??
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] domnic79:
Dat means giving Read/Write permission in root explorer. Dis is used for editing system files.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] glückskind37:
I tried both methods (data/local/ and system/media/) but nothing happened at all :mad:. Is anybody having a solution?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] vaibhav011286:
not working ..

having deodexed+root stock asian rom 2.3.4.

Tried both ways but not working plz wait..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Which rom you are using?

sent from my Samsung Galaxy Ace with CyanogenMod 7.1
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Stock rom users. Please search for a thread in SGA forum named as Bootanimation + CRT and follow those steps to make custom bootanimation to work

sent from my Samsung Galaxy Ace with CyanogenMod 7.1
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] LeonardoDeKenji:
SanGingerAce 3.6's boot is crazier than this boot :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] vaibhavx:
thanks worked for me
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Cryss:
works 4 me, thank man :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] TopXlosz:
!

boot wonder !

thank you
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] glückskind37:
Stock ROM :D OK Ill take a look on other thread :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] yurachan1:
i am using stock rom 2.3.4 ddkq6 .

i need to change my bootanimation to have crt animation?

does the BLN reduce battery?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Axel2033:
cool bootanimation
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
Yes, because CRT mod will remove Samsung boot animation.

BLN have very less impact on battery consumption
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] jeff425:
I'm using KPH firmware original from samfirmware.com.. I cant seems to find the bootanimation.zip in the system.. How can i replace it..?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] dragonnn:
Stock firmware doesn't have bootanimation.zip, this you can find only on custom rom's or if you use CF-root it will works too.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] jeff425:
What do u mean by CF-root.. I am new to android.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] domnic79:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1158197

Sent from Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 using Grif's Cyanogenmod & allinone ram script.

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'THANKS' button. [XDA RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ijustzeke:
perfect. :) working.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Diliban:
If you like my work.. Hit thanks button...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ijustzeke:
forgot to click thanks button.

thanks xD
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] egregious:
thanks mate
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Impossible!No is possible:
My god AWNSOME thx :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] AceTec:
Nice thanks.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] pesfan50:
How did you do please it don't succed it saying "Cannot be deleted because the file system is read-only" when i try to delete the one wich is already there or when I put the new one

I have found the way. Works on data/local . It doesn't on system/media