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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I tested and do not have that problem.

Nor have I seen this problem reported before
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
BUG ?

Hi folks, thanks for all of your posts, I'll be back later to answer them all - got my head down getting the final test build ready!

I've started to get the GPS icon appearing every time I use utter! It appears to be an issue with Google Play Services.

It's also happening using Google Now, when you press the mic icon. Could you confirm or deny if you are experiencing this please? And if you aren't, are you location services enabled or disabled in the Android Settings?

EDIT - Also, your Android version please. I can replicate on 4.3

Thanks meter + 1 awaits!

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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
The location icon appears for me as well on android 4.4.2

I have all of my location services enabled

The location icon also appears when using Google now.
[Android Apps and Games] Rochey13:
The location icon shows on mine, only for a split second but still it shows. I'm on 4.4.2. I also get it on google now for the same split second.
[Android Apps and Games] phillb09:
Icon shows on my n5 both Google now and utter
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Icon is showing for me on my Nexus 5, but not on my Nexus 7 FHD. Both are 4.2.2
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for your feedback :good: Notes are handled differently in the test build due in about an hour.

I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about how long you can pause for - Google disabled this ability in Jelly Bean. I've reported it to them and re-reported it to them........

Thanks once again for your persistence on this, it's appreciated :good:

So, the issue of when I'm querying the calendar from and to I don't think can be the issue - If you have an event that runs from 1pm-5pm and I query the calendar between 2pm-4pm, it will still return this event, as it returns anything that is ongoing between the times - This includes all day events, or events that span over 3 days. <--- Can we tick that one off now?

The second is still beating me... If I apply time-zone offsets, my events are out, but yours work....

I've completed everything on my to-do list for the Play Store release now, apart from this! So, going to have another attempt at resolving it shortly. Suggestions welcome! Often I can't see the wood for the trees.....

Can you try the following for me please:

1) Go to the Recognition & Voices Section

2) Press Google Voice Search

3) Say 'wake up' <--- Did it come back as that?

4) Go to the Advanced settings

5) Select Wake-up Configuration

6) Choose a custom wake-up phrase that won't be mistaken - like 'elephant'.

7) Turn off all data connections

8) Start the permanent recognition

9) Say elephant <--- Was it instant?

10) Say wake up <--- Was it instant?

Hopefully with the above you can narrow down if it is a network delay, or a recognition issue. Or neither!

Let me know :good:

Blabbing is most welcome :good:

Thanks for sharing the tips :good: I've fixed the above issue for the next release :good:

Thanks for your testing skills! :good:

1) Have you set 'Navigate home' as a Replace Words feature? You need to put 'Navigate home' in the top box and 'Navigate to +your address' in the bottom box.

2) Fixed for the next release :good:

3) I'll investigate :good:

Got a bit of a backlog of emails. Thanks for wanting to be involved - I'll be in touch soon!

It's on my to-do list somewhere, but don't when I'll get to it I'm afraid...

I can't replicate this... Are you using the Quick Launch shortcut or one created via utter! or your Launcher? All of those should handle this gracefully. If it's a Tasker generated launch, then it's fixed for the next release.

:good::good::good::good: Your Thanks Meters have increased!

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Thanks for the feedback and bug reports folks!

Apart from a couple of things mentioned above, I've finished everything ready for the Play Store release. Going to push the test build of it here in about 30 minutes.

Wanted to include so much more before I updated it, but the ratings are dropping by the day, so I need to get a version on there with bug fixes in......

Back soon!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
[MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION] - "search for application sunrise calendar"<--- It works for me? I might have fixed something without realising, so perhaps you can test in the build coming shortly please.

[MENTION=516936]Rochey13[/MENTION] - "search the sky for the moon" <-- It seems as though Google thinks you're looking for a TV Channel and sending back 'Sky 4'! Fixed for the next release :good:

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[Android Apps and Games] thafath:
Great job. Long time user, first post here to say Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
It's still telling me I have no events on my calendar (well, it's a Sunday, what did you expect?). I'm saying that exact phrase too.

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This problem still exists. If permanent recognition is enabled/disabled a few times through Tasker profiles (resulting in overlap), it will start giving a network connection error. The only way to fix it is to disable it, kill the app and then enable it again.
[Android Apps and Games] n11:
Thanks given for the headset change.

It solved the problem I was having with a Galaxy Gear.
[Android Apps and Games] nadaltennis77:
What I want more than anything is to be able to skip songs without touching my phone. I have a Moto x, so it has a core dedicated to voice recognition which sips battery. I have Tasker tasks set up to skip appropriately. I want utter to be always listening to wake up and then respond when I say "skip". This works, but Thebes problem is, when I set it to respond to the wake up phrase, utter keeps making a beeping noise every 5 seconds! How can I turn this off?

Thanks so much!

Btw, if I can implement this through Google now that would be even better I think. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] varinder jaswal:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION].... Thanx for this wonderful app....

GT-N7000 vj
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

Another discovery.

Search google for something like " android all day reminder 5pm"

Apparently, if you set a reminder for an all day event, on some versions of Android, you will get the reminder at 5pm the previous day? Hmmmm? Isnt that just like 12amFriday-7hrs=5pmThursday?

I mean, we were thinking 7hr difference due to Time Zone but could it be these reminder implementation???
[Android Apps and Games] markworksfx:
Trying to download but keeps failing

sent from the J.A.R.V.I.S. system
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thank you and welcome :highfive:

Could you enable visual results please and double check for me that it's hearing exactly that? Have you a Custom Replacement that could be manipulating these words?

Are these Tasks being triggered at display off and on? I'm handling multiple toggling requests, but if you fire a load in quick succession, then it's going to cause an issue because I will end up firing multiple requests to the recognition API and Google Search will crash out.

Thanks for confirming :good: Glad that sorted it for you.

Firstly, the beeps shouldn't be present, unless your tasks are manipulating the media stream or you need to update your Google Search application.

The music commands are built on a test version I have, but just don't work well enough to release, as Google is hopeless with too much ambient noise. You have to shout at the device to get it to occasionally react.... So, no immediate plans to get this working I'm afraid.

Pleasure :cowboy:

Great spot!! We're getting there... :victory:

Working fine for me - You must have connection issues?
[Android Apps and Games] nadaltennis77:
Thank you brandall. The only thing is that my issue is independent of my desire for voice music control. When I activate the "wake up phrase" option in settings, utter starts listening, but it's like it keeps restarting the listening every 5 seconds, because without me saying anything, it will keep beeping and coming up again as a new notification and flash across the status bar. Any further ideas for how to get this to behave correctly?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Not asking for a default. Have Evernote and if I try to deselect takes me to the play store.

When I say new voice note it opens Evernote but says "something went wrong".

It does work however.
[Android Apps and Games] Rochey13:
My note taking is working with google keep. I did change it yesterday using google now, but with the updated utter "new note" creates a note in google . keep, which is awesome by the way.

Also checked "search the sky" which is working nicely now.

Lastly, I've tried a text message with the new edit option (instead of proof reading) and that was shown in the hangout app correctly.

Thanks again brandall.
[Android Apps and Games] regor99:
Utter Quick Launcher?

Hi Ben

Yes I'm still here watching and following your progress. None of us Complete n"Utters" go away you know,,.

Anyway quick one. I've noticed the Utter! ql Quick launcher app no longer seems to load with your beta applications.

Is this intentional and will it be in the Play Store build? Just checking seeing you're close to going live.

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Forget that just remembered it's a separate app in the store....duh!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Hmmm... What version of Google Search are you running? And there is definitely no update in the Play Store available for you? What OS is your device running please?

Even if the beeps are occurring, there shouldn't be a notification reoccurring in the status bar.... Confused about this one.... :confused:

Fixed! Thank you :good:

Thanks for reporting back! Always good to hear of no bugs! :good:

Good to see you back :cool:

Despite what you said, the Quick Launch app should still be working correctly. If I had to guess, I would say at some point your Launcher has 'forgotten' what it's supposed to do. If you remove the shortcut and reapply it, does it work then?

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[Android Apps and Games] nadaltennis77:
I have the most up to date version of Google Search in the Play Store, v 3.4.16.1149292.arm

There is not an update available for either Google Search or Utter.

I am on 4.4

edit: Yeah, the notification stays in the status bar, it has a red icon. So there is a red icon and the regular blue-green icon.

The notification is not reoccuring actually. It just keeps beeping and then there are now 2 utter icons next to each other.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for confirming.

How are you starting the permanent recognition? Does this happen if you say 'start listening' ?
[Android Apps and Games] regor99:
Quick launcher ok, Conversational mode?

No I'm good to go. Just installed and reinstalled.

Love the conversation mode even now with its present limitations.

I know we have discussed this before but

are you considering a botmaster?

Just to ensure all remains well, particularly in the early days.
[Android Apps and Games] nadaltennis77:
I go into the settings and then tap the box where it says "tap to activate" right below "wake-up phrase"
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Cool :good:

The bot can't be 'edited' as yet, so there shouldn't be anyway someone can hack it! But when it becomes configurable, I'm going to need all of the help I can get!! :eek:

Just had a good look at my code and I think you should be getting an 'audio recording error', but in some cases, it looks like I'm not handling this correctly - I've fixed that, thank you - but that doesn't solve the reason why you are getting it....

Is something else using your mic resource? Does the hot word for Google Now work correctly for you?

Can you open utter! and go to the Bugs Section. In the box can you type precisely this:

ADMIN:1

And then press Run

That should reset the permanent recognition back to using the new implementation, which for some reason has also failed for you.

Let me know what happens! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
NEW NOTE FEATURE

Works great! Even works with an app called Notables, which holds notes in the notification shade.

Well done Ben, thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
Yeah, I'm on the latest beta of Utter and latest version of Google Now/TTS.

And when I activate the always listening feature, it just beeps every couple of seconds.

It works fine, but beeps over and over.

Also, it looks like Utter still does not work with the APT-X Bluetooth codec either. No audio is sent unless it's over the normal SBC on top of A2DP. It refuses to send over APT-X.

Really cool app. Lots of capabilities. Gotta nail down some basics first. :D
[Android Apps and Games] Critical Detox:
Glad to see that you have Spotify rolling again, in pretty quick timing also, seems like just yesterday that I emailed you about the app switch that happened, nonetheless, excellent work Brandall, the talk to me command is pretty awesome already, can't wait to see how far that goes. Been using this app since it was an infant and each time it gains a feature I become more grateful that the app exists. Keep up the fantastic work brandall!
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

Bug: Calendar event names aren't being capitalised.

I tested the wake up phrase and it works well offline, but there is still an awfully high failure rate when I'm speaking from a slight distance. I think it probably has to do with the mic on this device. The Tasker issue is now sorted. I have set my profiles so that they can only activate once every minute, which takes care of the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Glad to hear it! :highfive:

Thanks for reporting :good: Could you try the following please:

Can you open utter! and go to the Bugs Section. In the box can you type precisely this:

ADMIN:1

And then press Run

That should reset the permanent recognition back to using the new implementation, which for some reason has failed for you. I'm looking into the beeping issue now. Don't quite understand how it's behaving differently on different devices.... Doh!

Thanks for your support! :highfive:

Fixed the capitalisation! Good spot again! :cool:

For your Tasker profiles, it sounds like you need to prevent them from triggering when the display goes off and you didn't want it to, so you just turn it straight back on . Handling this with a variable and a 'wait' and then checking the variable again before triggering should work. A long time ago I wrote some tasks that did this in the Deep Sleep Detective. You might be able to get some clues from it.

Distance from the mic is a big factor....
[Android Apps and Games] Rochey13:
Sunrise compatibility

Just curious, should Utter be able to create a calendar event using the Sunrise app? - if it's chosen as the default app.

I've tried it and it creates an event with the correct times but the "Title" of the event is blank. Just wondered if this was a bug or if I'm trying to get Utter to do something that it can't.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
[MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION] reported this to them and they replied saying they are going to fix it :good:
[Android Apps and Games] regor99:
Conversation Mode

I'm finding the conversation mode great.

I realise it's an implementation of some ALICE Pandorabot but it's very fast and it is also has the function of learning built in.

(wrong answer/learn, "ok what do you want to say?")

Quick Questions going forward

The personal data I'm giving it (My name etc) where is it going?

Will it get forgotten by the bot at some period in time or can it be somehow stored and retrieved?

What if I change devices? Can I transfer all the information it has up to now?

The bot said it was struggling with capacity when i was testing it so it's in for a bit of a shock in a few day's time when you go live and potentially 100,000 users go online.

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I'm very intrigued with your set up for tiered donations and a great idea to maybe decide the value of functions going forward.

Will you be using this for premium users

to donate for

Keyboard input to Utter?

Direct command inputs from Tasker to Utter?

Compatibility with particular Bluetooth headsets?
[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
Is there a way to get the app to report time as:

"It's 5 'o 4 PM" instead of.... "It's 4 minutes after 5".

It said it didn't understand what I meant by that?

Screenshot attached so you can verify I pressed "run" for the correct syntax.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I'm not currently hosting the bot, it's a global one and therefore your conversation will and information will be forgotten very soon I'm afraid.

At some point in June/July I'll get this set up separately, then I might have to bounce some ideas off you please!!

I've no plans set in stone about the tiered donation levels. I've scaled them at the moment simply based on people's affordability and how any amount may be a lot to some, but not to others....

It's unlikely any features that are present in the app now, will become 'donate only' in a future release. I best think of some new creative stuff to justify it!

Doh! I'm going to upload another test build shortly, so I'll flush the system then, so you won't have to do it on installing.

The time features are all hard-coded I'm afraid. It took me ages! I'd need a few days on it to change it. Plus, the voice engines all pronounce the time differently... Some more naturally than others.

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[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
Sorry, Brandal. FALSE ALARM on the always-on beeping issue.

Your signature is at fault, I'm afraid.

As is my lack of focus I suppose.

Your signature has a hyperlink for the "latest build" that is not actually the latest build.

So I went back to post #1 and downloaded the latest build there and that does not have the beeping.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.0.9.1.9.3 UP! (Play Store build? (attempt 2))

Hi folks, just lots of bugs fixes in this one

FIXES

Notes - Credit [MENTION=4865507]GLDavis[/MENTION]

Capitalisation Credit [MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION]

Floating Window freezing - Credit me! :cool:

So many other little fixes in there too - Credit me! :cowboy:

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....

GPS ICON BUG

If you're suffering from the GPS icon flashing in utter! and in Google Now too, could I ask a favour - Could you post the following please:

1) Your device and OS version

2) Your Google Play Services version code

3) Your Google Search version code

2&3 you can find in the Android Application Settings.

Hopefully they'll fix the issue soon. I'm very reluctant to push this to the Play Store otherwise.....

Thanks meters +1 awaits you!

For those that missed out on the last build, here are the release notes:

Thanks for your testing skills folks! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
You did that in PhotoShop!! :D

^ New build above is even newerer!
[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
I like the small but worthy modification to your signature. :D

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Another feature request is actually for removal. :D

Is it possible to remove the "AI level" from the notifications?

There is an Xposed mod which lets you hide any notifications without that app being negatively impacted. Problem is, there are toooo many different AI levels to keep up with. If this were a standard "Utter" notification with nothing else added to it, then Xposed module NotifyClean could easily hide that notifcation.

See attached screenshot for a visual representation of what I'm talking about.

On the left is my Notifications pull down and on the right is the Xposed module NotifyClean. Anything it has in red is what it's hiding.

:)
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
:D

Try this - Go to the Power User setting and tick Remove Notification - That should replace it with standard wording where Android detects I've tried to use a hack!

That work?
[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
I'm back to testing Utter out again. I'm a big Bluetooth guy. APT-X Bluetooth for hi-def sound.

Looks like the latest Utter actually is transmitting audio over the APT-X "audio" now, to my JVC car stereo. And performs fairly well this way if I disconnect my "phone" bluetooth.

But if I enable my "phone" bluetooth, then Utter will start off using the "media" bluetooth and do well, but then will randomly switches back over to "phone" bluetooth and doesn't do so good there. It doesn't seem to like the switching back and forth between "phone" bluetooth and "audio" bluetooth. When it does work, it will cut the "audio" bluetooth volume in half and leave it there until the stream is interrupted again (like changing of songs on Pandora).

In other Bluetooth areas, when I leave the "always listening" feature on in Utter, it will actually commandeer the "phone" bluetooth and leave it on constantly, never letting my phone switch back to "audio" bluetooth. Pandora music sounds like crap in "phone" bluetooth mode. :D

Ahh, whoever invented Bluetooth must have been half drunk. This is one technology that is so crazy to get working properly. Ughh.

It surely did. Now nothing shows up at all. Is this bad though? Not being in memory, Android could kill it?

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It does seem to work fairly well over my APT-X Velodyne vFree headphones though (call & media audio).

It stays APT-X until I make a call. Then it goes to phone-bluetooth.

After the call is over, it successfully switches back over to APT-X media-bluetooth.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Yes I have the bug!

Samsung Galaxy S3

Android 4.4.2

Google play services...

Version: 4.4.52 (117 4655-036)

Google search...

3.4.16.1149292. arm

EDIT- turning off location services fixes the gps icon, but kills location services like "what is the weather"

Love Google.... Lol
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
:laugh: Thanks for providing this feedback :good:

Couple of questions:

Does unticking Auto Connect Headset in the Power User Settings make it perform better or worse?

Does unticking Bluetooth Headset in the Google Now Settings make any difference?

I will at some point in July dedicate a week to headset support and judging by your feedback, I think I could do with your help!

If you could provide me with a couple of links to some headsets or car kits you think I should buy, for both popularity and also technicality, I would be very grateful.

All of the ones I have now work perfectly - So I need to invest in some more!

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I'm going to make an assumption that removing the notification in the way you are, will not change how the app behaves. I'm sure it would have been quite a big consideration when they hacked it together.

:laugh: SOLVED! ;) Thank for posting.

Anyone else replicate the GPS icon appearing when the start Google Now or utter!'s recognition? It would be great to have as many permutations as possible emailed to Google for the morning! I can't really push the update to utter! whilst it's there.... It's a 1* haters dream! :crying: