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[Android Apps and Games] Dronoti:
Excellent app! The voice is very nice)
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Hi folks, 17 hours straight today... Coding the basics of the global time/ weather was pretty easy - Then I realised that you were no doubt all going to make requests for places that didn't exist... The hardened testers that you are...

That bit has proved difficult....!

Back to it again after a few hours sleep - will catch up on your comments tomorrow.

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[Android Apps and Games] 99problemz:
Dou you mean like a wakeup command?
[Android Apps and Games] rygo:
Yes and no ,so when u start utter you can have two modes basically that u could be in,one that you would hit a button say its called (utter) and with that you say your command and it would do that then time itself out and sleep if u issue no more commands so if I just wanted to use it to get weather directions what not I don't have to worry about data usage or batter drain .

Then another command (another button)say its (personal assistant) it'll stay alive till you close it.I guess I am thinking I am driving for 3 hours.I could go to keep it alive then whenever I wanted something I could say whatever word it takes to trigger it to pay attention (utter wake up ,call someone for me or I need directions to Verizon and Pizza hut.

I hate auto correct time to disable it.lol
[Android Apps and Games] freak4dell:
I need to run a stress test on Vlingo and see how much battery drain and data it uses up. If, like someone said earlier, the wakeup command is stored locally, then data usage is not an issue. Battery usage certainly would be no matter what, but typically, if you have Vlingo set to listen for a wakeup command, you probably have the device plugged in.

Vlingo works exactly as rygo described his vision of utter! running. It normally uses a button to trigger listening for input, but you can turn on the wakeup command feature, and it will listen for that command so you don't have to press the button anymore.
[Android Apps and Games] rygo:
OK now I got a go try it see if that's what I was thinking.lol

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Ya that's pretty close only I was picturing 2 big buttons in center.damn I may have had a good idea,maybe a little to late but o well.
[Android Apps and Games] mahootzki:
Because im a lot on this forum and we are like a small utter! Family, I decided to share my good news with all. My wife delivered an adorable little girl last night! :)

All tabs seem in order on her... :p

Sent from the heart of my bottom.. er.. bottom of my heart!
[Android Apps and Games] guy4jesuschrist:
Really? Didn't know that. I don't mind paying once for the capability, even if I have to do it via donate. Thanks for the quick response! I'll have to dive in soon and give it a shot. Also looking forward to trying the new features in the recent release of utter! :)
[Android Apps and Games] peauproductions:
It's random when it errors, but it's mostly after a few incorrect translations (of which there are a TON of). No, I use the Wake-Up-Phrase on this device solely for launching utter.

Can you suggest all the settings I should be using to increase the success rate that utter will know what I'm saying and not throw up some gibberish into Google Search? Should I be using Google Synthesized Voice? I'm using CereProc for TTS.
[Android Apps and Games] peauproductions:
After updating to the newest build, is anyone else getting popping noises randomly in their speaker? Never happened in earlier builds and I haven't changed anything but update utter.
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
[MENTION=537847]BobD1605[/MENTION]

Would you mind changing the previous day's event to 12:01-11:59 and share your results with the same May 4th test?
[Android Apps and Games] defsquad:
Curious if there is a way to make the HQ Google text-to-speech engine respond faster when used with a motox and the touchless control functionality (by way of the touchlesscontrolintent xposed module)? I know a lot of you recommended the various Cereproc (and some of the SVOX) engines, however they don't seem to be as high quality as the Google female voices (the HQ specific ones that is).

Have you all just sort of given up on the Google provided engine?

Also, any of you using Utter with Touchless Control been able to get it to unlock the device (not just wake the screen)? It works some times with the keyguard toggle in secure settings, but is hit or miss. so when i try and, say, open google maps from a sleeping motox via touchless control, tasker launches utter and wakes the screen and tries to turn off the keyguard, however, it, again, is hit or miss for whether or not this actually happens.

Thanks for the app [MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Nothing here

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[Android Apps and Games] markworksfx:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION] first let me say been loving utter since day one

You mentioned you removed the ads but I'm still seeing them and one full screen ad when I close utter when will the playstore version be avaliable I waiting to donate for the ad free version

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[Android Apps and Games] InfraBlueAndroid:
Is there any way to remove the notification? I toggled the remove notification thing, but now it shows a notification titled "utter! is running".
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I've pretty much given up at the moment. In their current release, the initialisation time went from 10+ seconds to about 6+, so it's getting better.

This problem is exacerbated with utter! as it constantly attaches and then releases the voice engine - It's not like a normal app where you open it and it remains binded until you exit. It's the same for the voice recognition. I have to carefully manage the memory usage, as otherwise all TTS and recognition usage will gradually mount up.

I do have a direct line to the Google TTS team, so making them aware....

:good: It was all of the ads in the dialogs that I removed, but they remain in the main views and there are now two interstitials. They appear every seventh or eight time you enter Customisation or Settings. They will all disappear with a donation of any level (once it's uploaded to the Play Store and connected to billing).

My hack to remove the notification was fixed in 4.1.1 (I think). Depending on your Android version the notification should no longer appear in the status bar though? Just in the notification shade?

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[Android Apps and Games] nicholes:
using Kitkat 4.4.2(official got OTA india)

EDIT:- BTW i uninstalled it because there is too much noise at office and at home as well.
[Android Apps and Games] MarkAndroid.UK:
If you run the Xposed Framework then Notify Clean will do it.
[Android Apps and Games] MrsRockguru:
Where Am I

Question we have the latest build 9.1b running on three devices a Asus Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Siii mini and Galaxy S3... When you use the query Where Am I you are getting differing responses...

The phones only give your location, the tablet adds that "you can set location and profiles very soon" has this statement been removed.

Also we are getting vagaries in the location when queried, the Siii mini & tablet are stating the road we live in but the S3 only gives a general location of the town.

Yours

Aly
[Android Apps and Games] InfraBlueAndroid:
It appears on the status bar when closed, if that's what you mean.
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
@InfraBlueAndroid

I don't use permanent recognition, but I did a quick test for you and even if I have the "remove notification" enabled, I, in fact still get the permanent notification AND another one tied to this in my top bar. This is of course with ICS 4.0.4.

So I tried NotifyClean module to remove the notification(s) and it seemed to work perfectly in a short test. Wake up command still worked. What I presume will happen, is that eventually, when your Android OS needs to reclaim ram, it may bump Utter out of memory and the Wake Up command will not work until manually re-initiated. You could try the App Settings module to list Utter with the RESIDENT feature which will help keep Utter permanently in ram. You will have to experiment.

I already use both NitifyClean and App Settings so their is no really extra tax on my system....but they are pretty efficient anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Keep the permanent notification enabled within Utter and remove it using an Xposed Framework plugin (GravityBox or NotifyClean). This is the best way to get rid of it permanently while also maintaining its reliability. Unrooted users cannot get rid of it.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

1. The Google TTS delays seem to have been fixed. My phone automatically downloaded a few updates for the high quality voices yesterday and I switched back from CereProc after that, and it has been triggering instantly since then.

2. Minor request: can you just have the app say "opened tasker" instead of "opened tasker as the closest match"? I know why it's there but it really isn't required. It gets very annoying hearing it all day long. In fact, I think you could do away with the confirmation entirely, like you did with calling.

3. I don't know how they do it but I have plenty of apps installed that have figured out a way to circumvent Google's forced permanent notification while continuing to run in the background. Adaptive Rotation Lock and Tasker are just two examples among many.

4. Earlier, I could say "translate to hindi mushroom" and it would speak the translation in Hindi perfectly. I used to love that feature! But now it just gives me an "Engine language unavailable..." error. Translating to languages like French, German, Italian and Spanish still works well.

5. I still can't believe that you finally fixed the ambient noise errors by silencing that beep. It's much better implemented than my Tasker based solution and it is the single most important bugfix that has taken the app from beta to ready-to-ship state, in my opinion.

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[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

+1 for me on point #2 quoted above.

You know, we all have our favorite features with Utter....and those are the once we report back about.

I asked you a while back about disabling Utter as the default for my B.T. ear pierce. I could not do it without uninstalling or freezing UTTER.

BUT....big BUTT...when I briefly tested voice commands with B.T. today, it seemed to work far better than the last time I tried. Perhaps your latest fixes have really helped. Thanks. I will do some more B.T. testing when I get a chance. So maybe I don't WANT to disable B.T. for Utter anymore? ;):laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] mpd81:
New spotify app

The new replacement spotify app appears to have broken utters ability to stream music from spotify, if I say spotify (insert song name) the response I get is "you don't have spotify installed on your device" which it is, I guess the new version has been changed slightly
[Android Apps and Games] BobD1605:
Yup, that stopped utter! listing it for the following day.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Just doubled checked this and it isn't me..... The latest Google TTS Engine update has broken the ability to do this..........

*sigh*

I give up.........

^ I won't, but it felt appropriate to say it.....
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Oh well, I will sorely miss that one.

Can you give us the option to silence the "no speech" error? When it shows "I'm listening" in the status bar and then hears no speech, it should just silently stop listening.

The reason: I've set up a Tasker profile that activates Utter when I turn the screen on and it is locked. If I tell it to do something, it works great, but I obviously cannot use this because every time I don't say anything, it gives me that error.

I'm envisioning that I'll just be able to press the power button and say something while my phone is locked, while entering the lock code, so that by the time I'm done, Utter will also have completed whatever I asked it to do. I've tested it and it works splendidly, except for that error.
[Android Apps and Games] goughymachine:
That sounds cool aryayush! Like having the 'Hi galaxy' thing on my s3 lockscreen. Would love to see your profile.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I've let the Google TTS team know, so you never know, they might fix it.......

Your suggestion would again be an issue for new users - as they may just assume the app died and is crap :crying:

I do need to come back to my tweaking roots and make such options available though - I've sold out to the masses! I'll add it to my to do list, but no promises as to when I'm afraid. That said, I've already written the code as the conversation mode in the next test build does just that.....

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[Android Apps and Games] Danygold:
results from some testing

Hello tanks for the good work

I just found a little problem In settings DEFAULT NOTES you give us there 4 choice

Evernote is the only one possible it works well but I wish we could have a other choice

Simpler like Notepade

Catch note seems to be out not available on play store

Springate is also not available

And I also found a bug when using QUESTION utter directly said passing that to Wolfram Alfa

So fast that there is no time to put the question

Of 10 try only 4 did pass the all question. Would it be possible to have it wait a little I think it may just need to be adjusted until the question is complete then go on to wolfram alpha

I have tested a lots thing from the latest build 9.1b and I will be going on testing

But my Samsung S4 GT-I9505 android kit kat 4.4.2 is not rooted so some limitation.

So far very good works thanks
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
@brandall

Ok my friend. Please read this when your not exhausted. :good:

I am sure I have found the reason for the Calendar Time Travel issue.

Thanks to your logging version and the Epoch website link.

I believe my testing shows there to be "2 distinct issues".

Both totally reproduce-able and explainable.

This also explains our mixed results over the weeks.

Issue #1

Going back to what I have repeated so many times, you should clobber me on the head by now...I wish to state that Utter is not looking FOR the correct time span to qualify a particular day. A full day should be:

1) 12:00:00am through to 11:59:59pm

This is REGARDLESS of 'Time Zones" etc.

Issue #2 (this is the new one I found...or can finally clarify and prove)

This may or may not be Utter's issue. It may be "Calendar Goo" or it may be my ICS rom, but this is where your expertise comes in.

Test A

I manually created an event:

June 4 2014 from 12am to 11:59pm

Logging shows Epoch as 1401865200000

GMT: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:00:00 GMT

Your time zone: June-04-14 12:00:00 AM GMT-7

PERFECT right? PROOF thanks to your logging version of Utter.:good:

The only problem here is that Issue#1 from above...gets it's it wrong anyway even though your logging times are correct!!!

So issue#1 needs adjusting first for test A to totally work.

Test B

I created an "All Day Event" (you know...a PRESET in my calendar)

June 4 2014 (should be the standard 12am to 11:59pm time span right)

Logging shows Epoch as 1401840000000

GMT: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Your time zone: June-03-14 5:00:00 PM GMT-7

Ah ha...here is the 7 hour mistake you pointed out in an earlier post.

GMT should have been 07:00:00 and GMT-7 should have been 12:00:00

Conclusion

Either Utter or my Calender, is ONLY skewing "All Day Event" presets by the time zone....in my case. -7hrs...but NOT if I manually punch in the times 12am to 11:59pm. So is there a way you can test this? Maybe I will temporarily revert to my stock calendar and test again.

UPDATE: Just tested same scenarios with S-Planner calendar app. SAME RESULTS.
[Android Apps and Games] mpd81:
Screen on to activate utter

I use a similar task for when turn my screen on but the task turns on permanent recognition so I just have to say "wake up" if I want utters attention and turns it off again with the screen off. You could set the task to turn recognition on for a certain amount of time when the screen turns on though which would solve your issue of the no speech error
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
I tried that at first but Utter is very flaky with recognising the "wake up" command, and will often stop working entirely. I hate looking like a fool as I keep shouting "wake up... wake up" at the lock screen. It's also slower and uses more battery, I would assume.
[Android Apps and Games] mpd81:
Wake up

That says true in the playstore version but for me at least in the latest version here on xda wake up is instantaneous and very reliable, I've not had a single incident of it not responding to my wake up command, it's as if the mic sensitivity has been turned up to maximum and I compare it to how responsive svoice is to "Hi galaxy" (the only decent thing about svoice in my opinion) if you set your task to turn recognition off after 30 seconds of listening after screen on the battery consumption would barely be noticeable I would imagine. I use the wake up profile when screen on all day on my s4 and I get through the day on a single charge.

On your existing setup I suppose you could always say "nevermind" each time you unlock your phone or create a kill utter! Shortcut on your lockscreen or assign it to a hardware or software button using taskkill plugin and gravitybox (or similar xposed mod) so that when you turn it on and you don't want utters attention you can hit that thus not getting the no speech error. Sorry for babbling just thinking out loud :o)
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Thank you. I'm using the permanent listening method right now, but I would still prefer to do it the way I'd originally intended. Even in the most ideal circumstances, having to say "wake up" and then the command is much slower than just having it start listening every time the screen turns on (and the phone is locked).

[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

I was asking it to "search for application sunrise calendar" and it kept saying that I had a free day today.

Also, every time I tap on the shortcut to launch Utter, it shows the location icon in my status bar for just a second before disappearing. It does not seem to be affecting usage in any way, but is this intentional?

Update: The location icon stays much longer in the status bar when I enable permanent listening.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
I have a couple of tips for you guys:

1. If you have a Plex Media Server setup at your house, you can use an app by Chris Bellew to control it via Utter on your phone. The app is called Voice Control for Plex and it's free. It only supported Google Now (through an Xposed Framework module on rooted devices), but I worked with the developer to get Tasker support added to it, with profiles for both AutoVoice and Utter. It's fantastic! You can say "watch the prestige" or "watch the latest episode of modern family on my imac" and it'll do that (with next to no delay). We used [MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]'s Tasker profile for Utter to achieve this.

2. Using the same Tasker profile, you can set up a command structure so you can command it to "lower brightness to 20%" or "restore brightness", etc. I'm using the Screen Filter Tasker plugin along with Utter. It detects the word "brightness" and then finds the number in the command and sets the plugin accordingly. If no number is detected, it sets the brightness to 100%, which basically disables Screen Filter. This enables you to control sub-zero brightness through voice commands at night. (I have another Tasker profile that automatically disables Screen Filter at dawn everyday.)
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

Major bug report: if Utter's permanent recognition is already active and one of my Tasker tasks sends the activation intent, Utter gives me an audio recording error and disables permanent recognition. It then gives me "no Internet connection" errors even if I try to trigger it manually. I have to go in and disable it from within the app, exit, and then launch it again to fix it. As long as Tasker never sends the activation intent while it is active, it works fine.

But this is a major issue because I use that Send Intent command from a bunch of profiles and it is virtually impossible to ensure that they never overlap. Utter should just handle it gracefully, shouldn't it?

Also, the wake up command simply doesn't work as reliably for me as it seems to for [MENTION=4980471]mpd81[/MENTION]. I've tested it extensively. Might it be a fault of my phone's mic? I'm using a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. I'd be happy to assist in any way you want to get this to work better, if that's possible.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hmmm, works very reliably for me...so I'm thinking...try turning off your Tasker profiles...then try it.

Stab in the dark...but I have a gut feeling.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
You're saying I should disable Tasker altogether and try using permanent recognition to improve the recognition reliability? I don't see how they are related in any way...
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Only to see if that might be the cause of the permanent recognition problem you're having.

There might be something there that creates conflicts and we should try and find out what it is.

No other reason other than debugging.
[Android Apps and Games] Rochey13:
Found a couple of bugs

Hi brandall,

I've found a couple of bugs, thought I'd let you know.

1, Navigate home doesn't work correctly - If I say "navigate home" google maps opens the destination says home but then suddenly changes to something else. I tried this a few times at different places in the UK today, each time the destination changed to somewhere different. Now I'm at home the destination changes to "Ashbury Lodge" ??? not sure why?

2, Sending a test message, proof reading didn't work - If I say "text barry hat" I get a response asking for the text message content. Once that is complete the message is read back to me. Then Utter asks if I want to proof read it? If I say yes the hangouts app is opened with no text displayed and nothing happens. If I say no to the proof reading the message is sent.

3, found another one, "Search the sky" - If I say "search the sky for the moon" or "the sun" Utter replies with "searching the sky for the the, and stops. The google sky app opens and displays "no matching items". If I say " Search the sky for moon" (without the "the") it all works but it's not very natural.

Thanks for all you're hard work.

Rochey.

PS. I sent an email from Utter with the subject TESTING!!!! requesting to help you with the TTS. Did you get it? Was that the correct way to ask for help? If not how do I request to help?
[Android Apps and Games] InfraBlueAndroid:
I don't really hold well with xposed, so forget that. Can you add support for a custom icon as the notification icon instead? I know there used to be a feature like that before, but not sure about now...
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Another bug, related to one I've reported before: if permanent listening is enabled and you tap on the shortcut for manual listening (instead of saying "wake up" ), it says "I lost the network connection". You have to use the wake up phrase only. That can't be intentional.