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V3.0.8.1B UP!

Hey folks, so I took a few weeks holiday, a much needed one, and stepped away from the coding. Since I've been back I feel like my brain has been spring-cleaned, as I've got the Midas touch now with everything I'm testing working! Well, for me.... So, with that said....

What's new I hear you ask!?

Google Now Integration

In the Advanced Settings under 'Try Again' you can set Google Now to handle the unknown commands. This is still a work in progress, as I haven't been able to get Google to announce the answers as yet.

Google Now commands will activate correctly, such as setting reminders and, erm, other things! I don't use it much.....

* I've got to deactivate utter! lecturing you on saying things incorrectly if you've selected a 'try again' option.

Chat Bot Test

It's another option in the 'Try Again' Settings. The bot is only a frame-work and will remain pretty dumb until I get the Server connection up and running. Then all users can contribute to its intelligence!

Ask Yahoo!

Building on the knowledge base I'll be using to answer all questions (eventually), you can say the command 'Ask Yahoo +question'. From my testing, it is really poor...... The questions often seem irrelevant to what was requested and the answers are sometimes equally as useless!

The answers can also be offensive and boring! But I came blame Yahoo for that.....

Spotify Integration!

It's been a very long time coming, but finally it's done. Say the command 'Spotify +song details' to start the playback.

There's an issue with the licence check when the app first starts. If it hasn't had time to perform it, then the search results will be empty.

Spotify don't allow playlists to be started, due to privacy reasons apparently?? I'm seeing what I can do about this....

Google Play All Access

Same as above, you can now search and start any song in the Google Play Music App (hurray!) The command to use is 'Stream +song details'

I've noticed that Google doesn't appear to support album playback - It will only play a track from the album, which is a bit rubbish. Again, I'm investigating.....

PLEASE NOTE: Without Google All Access, you can only search based on the track name or artist name individually. Searching for artist + album will return no results. I've no idea why - You can test this yourself by pressing the search icon in the app.

Search Amazon

The command is 'Search amazon + search term'. This will display the results in the Amazon application if you have it installed, otherwise the browser.

Search Yelp

The command is 'Search yelp+ search term'. This will display the results in the Yelp application if you have it installed, otherwise the browser.

Search Ebay

I finally got the results to display in the eBay application. The command is 'Search eBay +search term'.

Confirm Before Dialling

A very popular request I've finally got round to. You can toggle this is in the Settings

Announce Caller ID

Another popular request completed! When an incoming call is received, utter! will announce the caller and ask you if you want to accept or reject the call. The Setting for this can be toggled in the Accessibility Settings. It's linked from the Advanced Settings!

I had to mess around a lot with the audio to get this to work and it's not yet complete, as I need to start the ring tone playing again if you don't say whether you wish to accept/reject - as you might not be in earshot!

I've just realised I've not tested it on numbers that aren't in the contacts database either.....

Ducking Audio

Finally I've solved this too - mainly because of the above. I hope that utter! will now 'duck' the audio of any other application when it speaks to you.

Define

With my Wolfram Alpha negotiations still in deadlock, I managed to find another source to provide definitions. Works pretty well for me. The command is 'Define +word'

Clipboard Mute

I still haven't heard back from the Tasker dev about passing the voice data to variables, so in the mean time there's a toggle in the Power User Settings that will stop utter! from saying 'I've remembered that, it's copied to the clipboard'. You can then use the clipboard event in Tasker to grab the voice data and do what you like with this.

I assume Llama may have such a feature too?

Apologies to regor99 who's been asking me to do this for about a year!!

4.3 Compatible

Well, I hope so.... All seems to be working ok?

BUGS

Still a few to deal with. The BIGGEST one I've yet to solve are the reports of the Settings links not opening from the app home page. If this is happening to you, PLEASE do let me know! I've not been able to get a log of it happening off anyone.....

Right, I think that's about it for now!

I'm sure there are a few other things, but I can't remember them right now.......

Thanks in advance for your testing skills - I'm off for a nap! :D