[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.1.0B up!

**NOW UPLOADED TO THE PLAY STORE!**

Hi folks, "what's new!?" I hear you cry.....

'Search the sky for +planet/constellation (etc)'

This requires the installation of Google Sky Map and and its inbuilt search function appears to be fairly limited.

'Search planet Earth for +point of interest'

This is actually the same as the existing 'Fly to' command which uses Google Earth, but I thought it relevant to update the standard syntax considering the above! Google Earth doesn't seem to react correctly to a 'new search' and sometimes just goes to the previous search request :mad:

Emotional Analysis

Say 'how am I feeling'

You'll need to install my app Memotion and record a couple of diary entries to use this feature.

It's just an initial test to make sure I've coded the connection between the two apps correctly and at present, it only attempts to read back your latest emotional analysis, in broken English...

In the future, it will aggregate your collected emotions, so you if you need to book a meeting and have an option of a few slots, you'll be able to ask 'how will I be feeling next Friday afternoon' <--- If you get back 'successful and ambitious' you might want to book it in then! Also, 'play me some music' will select a suitable genre based on your mood.

^ So many uses for the above, I can't wait to build it in to utter! directly in the coming months.

Conversation Mode

Say 'talk to me' and you'll be able to converse with the app without having to restart the recognition each time.

^ It's pretty dumb at the moment, but now I've got the server back end connected, I can start ramping this feature up soon.

Search Netflix

Saying 'Search Netflix for Shaving Ryan's Privates' should tell you that it's not available to stream and probably never will be..... :o

Navigate to the clipboard

A useful feature I feel if you've copied an address from somewhere.....

Deezer support

The command 'Deezer +album/artist/track' should work if you're a paying subscriber (could someone confirm please, as my trial has just expired?). For those that aren't this will just bring up a list of suitable music, but won't start playing it without interaction.

Notes

I've removed the default configuration for the 'new note' command. Instead, you'll be presented with an option to select your default provider once you compose your first note. If all else fails, Gmail handles sending this to yourself via Email.

Speaker Phone

When utter! confirms ''Would you like to call Joe Bloggs at work?', you can now reply, 'yes, on speaker phone'

Kill +app name

This has been updated to kill the application you are currently using without root being required

Sommersault

Because I don't have anything better to do with my time........ It can even do a backward one!

Mute Beep

To try and get rid of those pesky Ambient Noise Errors, there's now a Setting under Power User to silence it. BEWARE - starting to speak too soon is very likely if you do this....

Headset Support

A few more tweaks and there's now an option in the Power User Settings to not connect to your headset.

This is mainly for users with SmartWatches, but also, if you have a headset that supports its own audio streaming, then turning off utter! connecting to it automatically, might actually work better....

In-app-purchases

Finally there is an option to remove ads and donate. It might not work until it's uploaded to the Play Store, so don't all dive for your credit cards just yet ;)

Ambient Noise Errors

Rather than throwing an error each time this happens, I'm just immediately restarting the recognition. The result is that occasionally it will beep twice in quick succession. Hopefully you'll get used to this happening pretty quickly.

Example Usage

Pressing each individual command in the Command List provides spoken feedback as to how the feature can be used.

Dialogs

I've got rid of all of the ads in the dialogs, as they looked awful and made no money! I've added some animations too, so hopefully, in general, a little easier on the eye now.

Google Synthesised Voice

If you've downloaded and are running a Google TTS HQ voice, you can untick this option in the Settings. It will improve your performance. I wish I could tell programmatically and do it for you, but alas, there's no stable way to tell....

BUG Fixes

1) Capitalisation of messages

2) Confirm before dialling (a number)

3) Dialling a number when the format was unhandled - credit [MENTION=4535083]chiruscan[/MENTION]

4) Read my last text message - now handles large messages correctly

5) Okay Google Hotword disabling - Credit for concise diagnosis [MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION] & others for reports :good:

6) Open Google Now - Credit Pete Stringer via Email

7) All command speeds increased by a few milliseconds! It makes a difference to me! :victory:

8) Tasker WUP issue - credit [MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION] & Matt Dowdy via Email

9) Root commands - Credit [MENTION=4898757]mtomo82[/MENTION]

10) Spotify fix - Credit [MENTION=4980471]mpd81[/MENTION] & many via Email

11) Sky searches - Credit [MENTION=516936]Rochey13[/MENTION]

12) Soooo many other bug fixes

13) Soooo many other speech enhancements

KNOWN BUGS

Wolfram|Alpha integration :mad: - Their latest update stops question data being passed to their app. I'm really hoping this is a bug and not intentional from them. If the W|A users amongst you use the command 'Question +anything' and then 'report' the crash to them, it would be greatly appreciated x 1,000,000.

Silence on translation :mad: - Seems as though a few voice engines (including IVONA) are incorrectly reporting that voice data of another language is installed, when it's not.... Consequently, it fails with silence....

Agenda reading events from the past :mad: - It's a gingerbread bug, that's beating me so far....

Audio ducking :mad: - Not working for some application (PowerAmp) which don't adjust their volume level.

GPS icon :mad: - The cause is a Google Play Services update. It's affecting Google Now too, so hopefully they'll fix it very soon.

Please note, the command list in the app hasn't been updated with any of the above yet. I'll do that just before it heads to the Play Store

For those arriving here from external links and are currently running the Play Store version, here's a summary of what else is new:

Thanks again for all of your support! :good: I wouldn't be here without your input - good, bad or ugly....

REQUEST - If you haven't rated utter! before and think it's worth it, 30 seconds of your time to do so would be greatly appreciated. I'm dropping near the 4.0 average and that means I'll drop out of the rankings :crying: