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[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
It's funny to say, but there isn't. Stock Media player really lacks on settings.. pretty weird if you take into account it's Jelly Bean already, i think my GB Media player was more customizable than this, but since i always play the entire playlist with shuffle, i don't care much.

But yeah, i'll have to find a different way to face this, I just realized that when I make Tasker open the media player, I'm giving it back the control over my headphone buttons, I really don't want to install an app just for this, but i might have to...

Actually I'd be happy to leave the headphone's settings as they are, if I could make it that long pressing the button will initialize Utter, instead of Google Now. These guys don't know what they're doing, seriously.
[Android Apps and Games] wbtlgn:
I know, I have read that post about the final agreement with Wolfram Alpha, but that was a while ago and I thought that maybe Ben would be able to estimate the time of release for the updated version (that will contain Wolfram alpha). He also stated in the "what's new" section that the next update will contain Wolfram Alpha - if I'm not mistaken - so that's why I am patiently waiting for the final version to come out.

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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I don't use Google Now, but if you go into manage apps, google now and can you clear defaults?

If so, then maybe you can long press your button and see if you get a list of actions to choose from. That might be what you need.

Worth a shot anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] wbtlgn:
Yes, I am talking about ES file explorer being included in the linked applications tab, and no, it is not just a list to download and install apps. The linking part means that you link a specific program with Utter! granting it with the right of "taking control" over the application - to be more specific - to use it when you ask it to.

In other words, Utter! is unable to make use of specific programs (except opening them) unless it is thought to do so; and even that way, you have to link it with the program in order to let it know that it has access to one of the applications that it was taught to use.

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[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
No, i've done a bit of research on my own, it seems to be hardcoded on the OS (Google's gone nuts on that); got around it changing the key mapping so instead of HEADSETHOOK the button is mapped as MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE; that way it keeps its funcionality to some extent (before i could skip songs by double tapping the button, not anymore, but at least no more Google Crap while long pressing..)

In the end i'll have to use a 3rd party button mapper as Headset Button Controller; just gotta figure out a way to automatically pause the media player while giving a command, and play again after i've said it

I may be wrong but i'd think that if you set ES File Explorer as the Default Explorer, then you can give instructions such as "Browse... + folder name", haven't tried yet though so i'm not sure, but since it's there, it should work

Edit: Just tested it, I said "Browse directory whatsapp" and it opened the whatsapp folder on Es Explorer..
[Android Apps and Games] wbtlgn:
Yes, you're right, it is already "linked in", because it is in a separate default browser category. I have just tested it as well and it works, so no need of ES explorer being in the linked apps list. But anyway I can't say the same for Google Keep.

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[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
a different file manager

Yes, you're right, it is already "linked in", because it is in a separate default browser category. I have just tested it as well and it works, so no need of ES explorer being in the linked apps list. But anyway I can't say the same for Google Keep.

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I am using Astro file manager. Can that be linked to Utter, OR are the other file managers better than Astro?
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Yes, you're right, it is already "linked in", because it is in a separate default browser category. I have just tested it as well and it works, so no need of ES explorer being in the linked apps list. But anyway I can't say the same for Google Keep.

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:good: One at a time lol :P I'm sure brandall will do his best to make Utter the best and most complete assistant for android :) I'm amazed on how well it's been working for me lately; the only issue i've had was Tasker not recognizing it, so i had to uninstall Utter and reinstall, and it won't recognize the replacements i had; which were quite a few lol, i'll have to add them manually again. But it's still the best app i've found to control your phone easily just by telling it what to do, so my most sincere congratulations to the dev :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] Beakuh:
Awesome!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
+1 on Keep. And I'll lobby for my favorite file explorer, FX.

Utter needs to be installed after Tasker, if doing so "clean," but I've found if I backup with ROMToolbox (probably the same with Titanium), and do a batch restore there's never a problem. In fact, if you have to reinstall utter fresh, you can restore its data from another device and have all of your personalizations without having to manually input then again.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Gah, it seems i hadn't properly set the recognition language in the task lol, everything is good with the restore then... I'm almost set, except for the little lovely fact that i can't manage to stop music to hear Utter, and then play it again.. It stops, somehow, and it does play back after waiting for a while, but i'd like it to be instaneous, right AFTER the voice reply, is there any way to do this? I've tried with %voice and %speech as variables for an if, but they don't seem to be what i need..

Edit: sorry if all of this seems offtopic, i know it's more on the tasker side rather than on utter's
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
Bug - Nova Launcher + Shortcut for utter!

In the Nova Launcher settings -> Gestures and Buttons -> Long-press Menu you can set various Nova actions, all apps and various shortcuts to open, instead of the default Google Now. Among the shortcut options there's one for utter! - when I click it, it asks for recognition language, then TTS engine and TTS language, then it just places a shortcut on the home screen instead of assigning it to the menu button. When I try other shortcuts, for example TeslaLED, they work just fine and when I long press menu, that shortcut activates.
[Android Apps and Games] remidesroques:
In that case you should use the extra application that comes with utter. All he does is to launch the voice recognition:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brandall.quicklaunch.nutter
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
I did that just to have a launch button in my menu tray @ the bottom.

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[Android Apps and Games] remidesroques:
That works too but you will have to be in your home screen in order to activate utter. However, if you assign that app to the button, then you can launch a voice command from anywhere. Just a thought.
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
Yea, that's what u meant to say. That's where I put it.

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[Android Apps and Games] beddess:
so *sometimes* but not always utter doesn't beep at me to let me know it's listening, also sometimes it hangs on fetching, neither of these happen all the time, not sure why, can i do anything to help debug it?

To make it even screwier at least sometimes they will both happen or both not happen, so i am not sure if they are linked at all, it may just be coincidence.... but i just tried and they both failed and then both succeeded.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
It happens to me as well and yes it is not consistent. The beep and the hanging I think might be related to the "connection" with the google servers. If you pull down your notification you will see something like "connecting to Google.....". This could be a poor connection on our end or with the servers...who knows.

I do seem to not have this problem, as much, when I'm on a wifi connection.
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
LOVE IT !!! :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] Leavard:
Yeah I can confirm that.

If you install Tasker after Utter you can just do a backup of Utter with Titanium Backup, then uninstall and restore with data immediately and Utter links to Tasker properly.

For the record, Utter doors have a backup option for your customisations in advanced settings (IIRC).
[Android Apps and Games] psychlist:
glitch with recognising 'google earth'

This is my first post on any forum anywhere ever, so if i've got something wrong (what i'm thinking of mainly is that i've hit the 'reply' button in order to post, even though this is not a reply, because i couldn't see any other way of posting, and i couldn't find any instructions on how to post), please (gently) let me know.

I installed Utter! from google play a few days ago (is that the latest version?) and it does not seem to recognise the term 'google earth'. When i say 'open google earth', visual results consistently show 'open google earth' as the top result (followed by 'open google earth app') but Utter! consistently opens google search as the closest match. Unsurprisingly, when i substitute another word ('traduce') for the term 'google earth', the command 'open traduce' yields 'opened google search as the closest match'.

The ROM i'm using is admittedly extraordinarily capricious, but the above looks to me like Utter! not recognising the appropriate string of characters. I've searched this forum for 'google earth' and i can't find anyone else reporting this behaviour, but then again i've read various posts by people who i'd guess have used Utter! to open google earth, presumably without any problem.

Can anyone enlighten me? (Please note that i'm very untechie, so it will be very easy to baffle me with techspeak.)

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello Psychlist!!

Well, first, your post is fine and welcome to the thread.

It's unusual I will say that visual results shows google earth and opens search indeed!.

However, let's try this (you can create custom commands in Utter, for things just like this)

In the app, go to customise, and we want to create a "custom command"

When you go there, you will want to select an "application"...in this case Google Earth.

Once you select the app you want utter to open you will be prompted for the command, then a couple other responses thereafter.

You can make it whatever you want, just keep in mind the more common the better (for example "view location")

Once you've done this, activating utter then saying "view location" should open Google Earth with no problem.

In the app now, you can "edit commands" as you desire, so if you wish to change to something else, feel free to do so.

Obviously Google Earth...Google Search...are very similar in their context so I'm sure that's the case here.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I'm going to assume you do have the Google Earth App installed on your device; so as i can see (I just downloaded the app to try it out and be able to reply here) the problem is that the app is not called Google Earth, but rather just Earth. so when you ask to "Open Google Earth", the closest match is obviously Google Search, that includes the Google term.

I'm a spanish speaker so i couldn't properly pronounce Earth alone, but replacing the word "Earth" with "Mapa Mundial" did the trick and it opened the app at the first try, so all you have to do is ask to "Open Earth" and it should work.
[Android Apps and Games] psychlist:
Aha!

Hi GL - thanks for that.

What i discovered is that Google Earth is called 'Google Earth' on google play (from which i installed it a few days ago), but on the app list it's called 'Earth'. Utter! responds impeccably to the command 'open earth'. Problem solved.

Thanks again. I'm off to look for the 'thanks' button. Wish me luck.
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
You can see the Google Earth command.

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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Great! The custom command is a great feature too that helps you make utter yours.
[Android Apps and Games] psychlist:
thanks

Yeah, i think you posted the above while i was twiddling with Utter! and replying to the previous post, so i've only just seen your post. You're 100% right of course, and many thanks for replying.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Lol, no problem, it happens to me too; I post asking for help and find the answer eventually. It's great to see you got it working :)

Now, I'd like to ask the dev (or anyone who's knowdgeable about it) if there's any way for Tasker to be aware that Utter has already carried out my command, so it can resume any other activity that was going on before (namely, media playing)

I've thought about many things, like lowering the volume while Utter speaks, and revert it when it's done, but Utter lacks a feature to control volume in that way, and doing it in tasker would require, again, to know exactly when Utter's done. So i'm at a loss there.
[Android Apps and Games] psychlist:
reply to ghostryder12

Hi Ghostryder

I've been trying for the last hour or so to reply to your post, and finally (after many manoevres that didn't work) realised what the problem is (i hope) - if i reply directly, there's a weblink inserted into my post. So here's what i wrote:

Hi

Thanks for your reply. The command in the screenshot you posted behaves a bit oddly: if you give the command when google earth isn't already open, it opens google earth at the last location before it was previously closed, irrespective of where you've told it to fly to. If you open the app first, then give the 'fly to' command, Utter! responds correctly to the command.

Your post has jogged something in my mind, and it's just occurred to me that it might be possible to write a tasker task to combine the 2 operations, which could then be triggered by a single command. I'm not at all sure about how tasker and Utter! can interact, though. Still ploughing through these forums trying to get my head round it (i got tasker a few days ago, the day before i got Utter!).

Thanks again.

---------- Post added 5th July 2013 at 12:16 AM ---------- Previous post was 4th July 2013 at 11:44 PM ----------

Yes it is, isn't it? So far it's the second most useful feature i've discovered (the most useful one is teaching utter! to swear at me in response to various sentences). I like being able to voice trigger specific bits of an app without having to open the whole app. I'm pretty much an utter! virgin, so i haven't done much yet, but i recently discovered that staring at a screen (messing around with utter!) until just before you go to bed can cause insomnia, and there's an app you can configure to adjust brightness and hue of the screen to reduce this effect: i've set things up so that with a voice command, utter! changes the screen to my preferred night mode without my having to open the app. What i thought might be useful (or maybe it already exists?) would be a database telling us what each utter!-accessible activity in each accessible app actually does; because so far what i've been doing is setting up commands to trigger each activity one at a time until i hit the one i'm looking for. There's no way for a technoklutz like me to figure out what an activity does just by looking at its name. A database like what i'm thinking of could be added to by any utter! user, and save at least some of us (well, at least me) a lot of time. If such an info resource already exists i'd be very pleased to hear about it, and maybe it could be mentioned in the utter! user guide. Or maybe it is mentioned in the user guide and i haven't found it yet, in which case apologies for the waffle.

Thanks again for your help. I seem to recall you're in the states, but i'm not, and where i am it's the time of day at which i'm going to be dog-tired tomorrow morning even if i go to bed an hour ago, so i'm signing off.
[Android Apps and Games] greatlyusa:
Language

Hello,

does anyone know s when german will be out because i love this tool and it really great but i need it also in german.

Hope it´s coming soon.

Jack
[Android Apps and Games] Leavard:
That is a fantastic idea.

I've just put together a Google Doc for people to submit activities they have discovered.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...VWFctMVBxSlhoQi1TZy05NkF2Ync&usp=docslist_api

I've put in a column for your XDA username do you can get credit for your work.

Please add stuff!
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
This will also help us new users in the best ways to utilize this fantastic app.

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[Android Apps and Games] lilfellabob:
Hi all, I'm hoping this is an easy fix because this app seems awesome.. I am trying to play music through google play but cannot get it to work.. Using the play command it plays the requested track but not through the music app, when I use the stream command it tells me to authorize google play music which I have done multiple times and it tells me it is successful. Why does it even need to authorize, I only want something to tell my music player to play a song not stream through anything!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
A recent Google update broke the stream command which the developer is aware of. Also you are correct about songs not being played through the app.

This is a work in progress.
[Android Apps and Games] aahalfredo:
Spanish pleaseee! :) im waiting for that
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
I'm being told that I need permission to access the posted link.

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[Android Apps and Games] boh113:
Just sent a request for permission. Please add me.
[Android Apps and Games] evilrix:
Great app - thanks

After trying practically every voice control app on the Google Market Place I've settled on using utter! because it pretty much does everything I want and has the flexibility to configure those things I want that it doesn't do out of the box. Great stuff!

Just one quick question, and I apologise if this has been asked before... how do I get it to search Spotify and play a track? The help says it should be something like "spotify <track>" but when I say that it replies that it doesn't understand. Am I missing something? This is really about the only feature that I've not managed to get working and I would dearly love to do so. Any help/guidance greatly appreciated.

Again, thanks for such a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Recently there was a Google update that broke the ability to steam music from their app. Probably affected Spotify as well.

I'm assuming you have it installed?
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
Suggestion - toggle permanent recognition via Tasker

It's probably already on the todo list, but just in case it isn't - it would be nice to be able to toggle permanent recognition on and off with Tasker - this way we could automate when it's on and when it isn't, thus getting the maximum benefit for the minimum battery drain. While this suggestion is basically a small part of my previous one about changing utter!'s settings from within Tasker, this one is probably a lot easier to implement. Additionally, even better would be to also be able to set the "wake up phrase" with Tasker.

An example use would be to turn on permanent recognition for 2 seconds every time the display is turned on - then you could say Wake Up and do whatever, or say nothing and just use your phone the old fashioned way, in which case it would go offline and won't drain battery.

Another example - turn on the recognition when there's an alarm ringing so you could turn the alarm off with your voice and then turn the radio on or have it read you the weather forecast or snooze the alarm for x minutes etc. etc.

A third one - turn it on whenever your phone is in the car dock or being charged.

Well, you get the idea. :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
calendar events?

I'm wondering if there is anyway to do the following either with Utter or Tasker or some such tool...

When my calendar has a special date on it such as a birthday or anniversary. Is there any way for me to be notified by saying "Say happy birthday/anniversary/whatever to X (where X is the name of the person/couple)"? AND is there any way for any of these apps to send out an email or text message automatically wen such a calendar event occurs?

Just some mindless ideas on this stupidly HOT day here in NY.

Robert
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I'm testing a few things regarding this, while i'm not sure utter can handle it on it's own, i'm sure tasker can do some things

As for the Profile trigger, maybe the notification from Calendar would work.

Then, when setting a task you have access to variables such as calendar events titles and description, so it should be possible to split them and use a Say action e.g If the event title was "Melissa's birthday" it would be a Say action that would read "Happy %CALTITLE2 to %CALTITLE1" replacing with the corresponding term and name.

And there are actions to compose and send sms, however, setting the contact to receive it would be trickier than just using the calendar variable, unless it's the same name.

I've seen there's a way to send values from tasker to Utter through the plugin, however i can't grasp the right way to use it. I was hoping it could be used to automate the Start/stop listening command and use it as you suggested. However, i think that in some cases (turning on the screen for example) it would be enough just using the utter plugin to ask for a command. The user would then decide to issue a Start listening command or just a regular one, as it wouldn't need to say wake up the first time.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300
[Android Apps and Games] Leavard:
Apologies to the 25 people who have asked for access so far, I'm working through the requests.

Doors anyone know how to make a Google doc open to the public?
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I was going to suggest you to make it public, but I forgot to do so, so there you go.

Open the doc, and up to the right there's the Share button, it will pop up the access settings, where it says Private, choose Change.. and set it to Public on the web (or just "For anyone that has access to the link" maybe).
[Android Apps and Games] Leavard:
Turns out you can't do it from the Drive app. Had to load the desktop version on my phone, as my desktop is out of action atm, but it's now done.

Sheet is now public for those with the link, so have at it!
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
I've thought the same on the car bit. But I'd want it to be specific. Toggling notifications is good, but having it announce everything your doing is a pain. Not complaining just thinking.

Took a break from the offline problem for the moment and started playing with other, easier stuff. Just trying to keep up with the thread.

:D

It'd be cool if there was a way to do that car part, but without announcing your every heartbeat. And to not have to use tasker for it. I've looked at the thing (tasker) and I'm sure once you figure it out, your good. But my feeble mind goes blank every time I start getting into that app.

I know, lazy. Blah, blah, blah lol...

I don't know how many of y'all have this issue. But when you talk to utter, and there's another person close by, do you get "what did you say?" From that person thereby goofing with what you were trying to get utter to do?

Lol... got to know if it's just me :p
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
Thank you very much. Is it still blank at this time, with no entries? I see the column headers & no entries.

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[Android Apps and Games] Leavard:
Yeah, it's blank. I'll post back periodically to let people know what's there.

Feel free to add stuff or change the columns etc if you want, but please don't delete anything :D
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
Copy that.

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