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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Private Beta Testing notifications are out!!!

Please check for a PM from me. I am waiting on 4 to respond.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] sixgunmojo:
Hopefully this may be a better answer than my last, since I checked out your rom. Been a while since I ran a tw based rom so not sure if this will work or is possible. Try Settings > Apps > find s-voice ( probably under the all tab ) and clear defaults. Back out to home screen and long press the search button, hopefully it will give a pop-up asking what app you want to use. With luck utter will be one of the options.

Also have to agree with GLDavis, tasker has a steep learning curve, especially if you're not familiar with programming ( like me ) but there are a lot of good step by step instructions out there. Most of what I have done is to find what I want and just specifically tweak what I need. But it is one hell of an app.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
This should work. I've had some say that Utter doesn't play well with S-Voice, so if you have a problem, just like above and then just "disable" S-Voice. (first thing I did when I got my SIII).

Have a good one.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Check you PM please.

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Check your PM please.
[Android Apps and Games] Kallen:
My S2 doesn't have a Buttons options in Settings. Might be due to the JMT custom ROM. Not sure.

Fortunately, I am a programmer. I've been developing MS Access databases with VBA for almost 20 years. So, if the documentations is there (and understandable), I should be ok. It's just a matter of finding the time!

THAT worked! One challenge I had is that S-Voice appears to be named Voice Command, so I had a hard time finding it. But, a long press of the Search button now activates Utter!

Yeah, that's a great way to learn and is probably what I'll do, too.

Yeah, I was able to disable S-Voice, so we'll see how it goes.

Thanks so much,everyone, for your help on this.
[Android Apps and Games] Mydnightsorrow:
I'm in. Love your work. Used it to make my dad's phone blind accessible
[Android Apps and Games] jugg1es:
Would permanent recognition be possible using xposed framework? If so would it be something that could be integrated into utter!

"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."

- Gloria Leonard
[Android Apps and Games] Extreme_One:
I'm in

Bit late to respond so I understand if I missed the boat this time. :thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] w. junior:
This will work for the Portuguese-br?
[Android Apps and Games] jugg1es:
Should work for whatever language you have installed

"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."

- Gloria Leonard
[Android Apps and Games] badhri:
Feature request

Hi [MENTION=5466650]christcb03[/MENTION] , Thanks for the reply !!! I was aware of sending a message with password configured + command, but i did not want to take that route. If somehow, the same can be achieved through Tasker plugin or through intent, then that would be really useful. Ben( [MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION] ) PLEASE, the functionality is already there, you just have to enable it through Tasker plugin as well. If it is not too much effort, then, if possible, please add this little passage from Tasker !! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] csmoore88:
I'm in
[Android Apps and Games] Dovidhalevi:
Gave this a try. Beta from Play.

Will want a later version that supports some other apps like Keep and CM Filemanager (There are sooo many of these around right now that the option to enter one may be in order. There must be some common interface to get the voice command into the app if all the ones currently supported work!).

Problem is that Google Search FC's when I exercise Utter. I have an older, modded version that does not initialize its offline speech engine. Tapping its mic icon will crash it. I have that nicely covered by Overlays and tapping it gets me the Voice-Search-Assistant which uses the online speech engine and feeds that into Google Search. As probably guessed, I have an ArmV6 device. I would have found or tried Utter had I a newer device. I am running a CM10.2 ROM on an LG P500. Jeannie works just fine. Vlingo worked as well (now owned by Nuance!).

Obviously, I choose the appropriate Google speech engine (or Vlingo) There are two, one for the old Voice Search (works) and one for Google Search which is ArmV7 precompiled so crashes. If you are try to tap into that, it will crash.

I do like the customization available and the ability to add, configure app interactions. I would not use any always listen or shake and wake because these will suck the battery. If I tap the Utter shortcut icon, Google Search FCs.

If this problem can be avoided, Utter should be an alternative and its shortcut and speech-to-text choice would be used in place of Google and the Voice-Search-Assistant. Looking forward to further development of this!
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
Last problem (can't get Utter! to start at reboot) RESOLVED! It was obvious when I thought about it - I have set to load most apps to my SD card by default.

Of course the last thing the boot process seems to pay attention to is anything loaded on the SD Card, right? So it doesn't look to load Utter!

Moved Utter to phone memory, voila! Now curious to see if I get less ambient noise and speech server errors.
[Android Apps and Games] Kallen:
Contact Alias

I'm in my contact list (because of gmail) several times ("John Doe"), with different email addresses. So, I selected a custom contact phrase "my office", then selected the contact I wanted for that phrase.

But, when I say, "call my office", it still selected one of the other contact listings with the name John Doe.

Any suggestions on how to select a specific contact out of several with the same name?
[Android Apps and Games] sixgunmojo:
If you created the custom command "my office" to call a specific number, you don't want to say "call my office". Just say "my office". Saying "call my office" invokes utter!'s built-in 'call' command.
[Android Apps and Games] Kallen:
Ambient noise error

Scanning through the thread it looks like the Ambient Noise Error is fairly common.

On my Galaxy S2 (Jedi Mind Trick 7 ROM), Utter! is practically unusable due to the percentage of Ambient Noise Errors I'm getting.

I've tested Google Now, TalkToIt, and Dragon and none of them have had that much trouble recognizing my voice commands.

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When a Bluetooth earpiece is connected, does Utter! listen through the BT? Or, still from the handset?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Headset works fine - I've had no problems having Utter hear my commands through my headset.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I too have had no problems with a BT headset. Works for me.

*** Ambient Noise Error-Actually, Google was made aware of this just yesterday and should be working on a fix!!!! Glad you asked, as I can now spread the word that they are aware of the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Kallen:
Interesting. I'll do some more testing, but my recollection is that I had more ambient noise errors WITH my BT than without. But, it was unacceptably high in both cases. Glad to hear Google is working on it -- but it's odd since I don't seem to have the problem in Google Now, Dragon, or SpeakToIt.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
You are correct...Utter uses a different implementation from all the other apps mentioned above...so that's why Google was not aware of the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Google TTS Missing?

I've skimmed through some of these pages and searched for various things, to figure out what's going on. But no luck.

I've got Google Now working, and it's talking back in that great Google voice. I can use Utter! with the SVOX Grace voice, and that's fine, but I prefer the Google Now voice. I can't get it to work. When I go to my Text-to-Speech Output settings, I have only Pico and SVOX listed. No Google.

I'm using a Galaxy Nexus running Paranoid Android. And I am semi-technical, but follow instructions really well, if you've got any.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Make sure you have downloaded the most recent version of Google Search AND Google Voice Search

On your phone settings..under language and input..do you show "Google Voice Typing" and is it checked?

Tap Text to Speech output and see if you now have the Google Text to Speech Engine

Back up again to Language and Input and tap on "Voice Search"...tap on Offline Speech recognition and see if you have option to download those files.

Hope this helps.
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Ran through the process where I delete those and my language pack, and reinstalled them from the Play Store, and the language pack, did all the reboots, etc. Still don't see it listed.

Yes, Google Voice Typing is checked.

No Google Text-to-Speech Engine listed under Text to Speech Output.

Listed under "installed" is English (US). Download WHICH files?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
So you have the English offline files already downloaded?

You should have the Google Voice...are you on a custom ROM?
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Yes, and yes. "I'm using a Galaxy Nexus running Paranoid Android."

Version 3.6
[Android Apps and Games] Dovidhalevi:
Related question: Under /system/usr/srec are voice recognition files. The older versions (reasonable size) pertain to the older VoiceSearch though the whole business works without them (as I found out by accident, not having restored my symlink after a flash).

The newer versions which pertain to Google Search/Now offline recognition are very large. Are these the files mentioned above? Where do you place them? I found having both versions around (on sdext, symlinked to /system/usr/srec/...) might not have worked. My phone cannot use Google's offline recognition because its jni's are compiled for ArmV7. Utter crashes Google Search immediately (modded version that will search and show results as long as mic icon not tapped).
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I had another user recently with the same problem..they found a modded version of something of Google Search that had the proper files.

I'm assuming you will have to do the same.

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I'm not sure what to tell you here as I really don't know. It might be something the developer would know, but as of right now he's thoroughly involved in another project.
[Android Apps and Games] noidea24:
awesome

works great with my stock 4.2.2 l9 p769, keep up the development! im loving it!
[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
I'm on Galaxy S4 running Google Edition 4.3 rooted ROM.

Are there any workarounds for the Ambient Noise error?

I realize Google is working on a fix, but is there anything that can be done in the meantime? I get the error 99% of the time, so I uninstalled Utter.

Or is there anyplace to download the older Utter? I googled the 4.08B but can't find it or any other older versions.
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
Some users reported success integrating the updates into the system, or clearing Google Search's data/cache. You can also use other words that don't return errors as aliases.
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Shake/Wave/Wake Explained?

I've been playing with the shake/wave/wake settings and still confused about what each of these are supposed to do. If I choose Wake-up-Phrase, it says Permanent Recognition is enabled, and I can set a specific phrase. The red icon is in the notification bar, and the phrase works most of the time. But it seems that, randomly, the red icon disappears and then I'm back to having just the blue icon and having to press on it to get utter! to listen to me. Or go into the app and enable Wake-up-Phrase again. This is counter to my desire to simplify the app's use.

I tried Shake-to-Wake and there was no icon. When I shook it, the blue icon appeared. But it wasn't listening. I had to press the notification to get it to listen to me.

Am I supposed to use Shake-to-Wake in conjunction with Wake-up-Phrase (Permanent Recognition)?

What I'm hoping to be able to do is pick up a sleeping phone, shake it (or speak a phrase) and have utter! listen and prompt me to speak to it. Is that possible, consistently? If not, what is possible?

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] usbulldog:
This is one of the very few issues I have found with the app. I can use the permanent recognition once to say 'play a music track' but then the red icon dissapears and I have to reactivate using the blue button or shortcut.

If there was a way to keep permanent recognition on it would be great.

Very happy with it though even in beta.

Nick
[Android Apps and Games] Tahahm:
Keeping permanent recognition on all the time would kill your battery , mine lost about 18% per hour when I used to have it on permanently( Moto X ) . The nearest alternative it to set up tasker so that the permanent recognition turns on as soon as you turn on the screen ( or any other event/state such as motion guesture or time/location based) . I've set up mine to be on all the time if the phone is charging ( works great for in car use ) . When device is not charging i've set it to turn on only when the screen is turned on which works great and is good on battery too.

You can even have it activated by pushing a button on your bluetooth headset , works great with my car bluetooth. See earlier posts regarding how you can send intents to Utter! from tasker that are triggered based on state/events. The possibilities are endless!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
It's not so much Utter as the problem...it has to do with recent updates to Google Search. Going to have to wait I think for a fix.
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Thanks for the info. But can someone explain to me how it's supposed to work? Are Shake-to-Wake and Permanent Recognition, via the Wake-up-Phrase, supposed to accomplish the same thing? And if so, are they supposed to put the app into listening mode, so the beep sounds and you can speak to it?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
1. Shake to Wake-is designed to activate Utter when the screen is on obviously by shaking the device, initiating Utter and then giving you the "beep" to begin speaking.

2. Permanent notification-Designed to "wake" the device when sleeping OR initiate Utter anytime the "wake up phrase" is used. Again, it initiates the "beep" to begin speaking your command.

They are 2 separate functions.

Permanent notification is battery intensive and as a previous poster mentioned if you have Tasker, you can pretty much make it work any way you like.
[Android Apps and Games] showkhunbi:
Can this work effectively on pantech flex?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
It should work on any device running Android (Gingerbread) +
[Android Apps and Games] beddess:
yeah, zero battery loss (obviously) and pretty cool if you set it up to just run while charging. I've also had it just doing like a 15 second window after you turn the screen on.
[Android Apps and Games] usbulldog:
Got it running with Tasker now so when charging, it's active. Another slight issue is that if I ask to play a song stored on the phone the permanent recognition does not re-activate. Its fine if I ask the weather/time or other task but the music seems to cause an issue. Anyone else had this?
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I think This is an intended behavior as part of a workaround Ben included, otherwise your music would be interrupted now and then while the perm recognition is active.

if you turn off the music manually, does utter re-activate the recognition? If it's like i said before then it should be stopping only while music is playing.

Enviado desde mi I9300
[Android Apps and Games] nik71990:
I read the following post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34339449&postcount=2155&nocache=1&z=6887430949136615

and it really doesn't make sense to me at all. I've been using tasker for a while but I'm not an expert by any means. I'd like to start permanent recognition when connected to bluetooth. Is there an easier way to do this???
[Android Apps and Games] budies3:
Does anyone get a black screen when you try to link Twitter?

Silky Smooth S4 Running CM nightlies;)
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
You have to use another browser than chrome!
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I'll write a little guide at the end of my post but This bit is what you need to read from that link:

Tasker, Llama & External App Support

Users have requested to be able to switch the application off and on under certain circumstances and so I've exposed the ability to do this and other functions using intents from external applications. The applications must allow you to add 'data extras' to intents and you can now do the following:

1 - Start the voice recognition

2 - Start the permanent voice recognition

3 - Stop the permanent voice recognition

4 - Turn utter! off completely

5 - Flush the memory utter! is using

Package name - com.brandall.nutter

Class name - com.brandall.nutter.EIH

To stop any rogue applications firing off commands to utter! you need to go to the Power User Settings and create an alphanumeric password. That password will need to be entered in the data extras of the intent, to confirm you have 'authorised' it.

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Basically, what you have to do is set the password in utter as per the instructions in the previous paragraph. With this done you go to tasker and create a new profile triggered by Bluetooth on

Then you create a new task and add an action Misc / Send intent with the following data:

Package name - com.brandall.nutter

Class name - com.brandall.nutter.EIH

Extra - command:2 (read above for help on this)

Extra - password: xxx (the one you set before)

Target - Activity

and that's all, you can do an exit task to turn off the recognition when Bluetooth is off.

Enviado desde mi I9300
[Android Apps and Games] nik71990:
I finally got it to work! Thank you so much for your help!!!!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] budies3:
That was perfect! Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] sh0nuff:
Hi everyone..

I've been using utter for some time, off and on, but recently have gotten more interested in it from an assistive devices perspective

One question I had was in regards to the Permanent Wake phrase..

I used to use an app called vlingo while driving, to allow me to interactive hands free with my phone. Now that it's been butchered by Nuance, I want to fully replace its functionality with utter.

One of the great things I loved about vlingo was what it would auto enable the wake up command option when either a bluetooth headset was connected, or when the phone was connected to power.

I'd love to see something similar with utter.. I looked through the last 500ish pages for a similar post but was surpirsed to not find such a request.

Perhaps I could use Tasker to complete this sort of thing, but I'm still a bit green at using it.. regardless, I think that adding it into utter as a default setting would make the app much more popular!

Where's a link to donate to this project?
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
In the previous page i posted a quick explanation to get wake up phrase activated through tasker when certain events are triggered; and in fact, there are more than 10 similar posts in the latest pages.

It might be possible to include it in utter, but i don't think it has a high priority right now.

Enviado desde mi I9300
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Thank you for explaining this. What do you mean, though, when you say permanent recognition is designed to wake the DEVICE when sleeping? To me, this means if my device's screen is off, I can say the wake up phrase, and it'll go on and ask me to give it a command. I find this is not the case. The screen has to already be on for the wake up phrase to prompt Utter! to listen.

Ignoring the functionality availble with Tasker for a moment (because I'd like to understand what this app is supposed to do before I get involved with Tasker), can someone can tell me if the following scenarios are the way Utter! is suppsoed to work?

1. If I activate Permanent Recognition, the red icon appears next to the blue icon in my notification bar, and Utter will "listen" when I say the wake up phrase. But only if my device's screen is on, whether it's on the lock screen or not.

(Sadly, if this is the case, it's not working consistently. The red icon appears, and sometimes it responds to my phrase; sometimes it doesn't. Randomly, the red icon disappears.)

2. If Shake-to-Wake is enabled, the blue icon disappears after backing out of the Utter! settings, and appears again several seconds after shaking the device. But I still need to drag down my notifications and touch the utter! notification for it to listen to my command.

(It seems that sometimes the blue icon remains, and sometimes it disappears, after enabling this and backing out of the app. If it disappears, shaking brings it back. If it's there, shaking makes it listen. This seems to work where I'm in a lock screen or not.)

But nothing I've done appears to wake up the device and put the app in listening mode, if my screen is off. Given that, what's the point of the app telling you to set your shake sensitivity as low as possible, to avoid activating it in your pocket? Who keeps their screen on when their phone is in their pocket? This would kill my battery in no time.

Am I missing something? Is it not possible, without using Tasker, to make the device and utter wake up and listen, hands-free, from a sleeping state (meaning the screen is off)?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Let me ask you a question first...do you have a "shortcut" on your device's home screen for Utter? If not..please do this-

a. Long press the home screen

b. From the Menu select "shortcuts"

c. From the list, select "utter"

You will be prompted then for the language, etc. Please do that.

** Now when you press that shortcut, Utter should speak to you.

1. Permanent recognition should activate with the SCREEN OFF....just speak the wake-up phrase and the screen should come on, and utter asking for a command.

2. Whenever you back out of Utter...Ben has made it so that it reactivates "itself" after closing the app to clear/flush memory (it's a bug in the menu). That will always happen.

...The sensitivity of Shake to Wake is exactly what you said..prevent it from waking up in a handbag, pocket, etc.

You seem to be utilizing a lot of the functions from "within" the app itself, which is not really necessary as most of those can be activated by issuing commands.
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
I have a shortcut on my lock screen, which works okay. I don't have one on my homescreen.

So, it seems, from what you wrote above, that both the wake up phrase and shake-to-wake should activate with the screen off. Otherwise, what's the point of the sensitivity warning for the shake feature?

Regardless, neither feature is working when the screen is off.

And yes, I am utilizing a lot of functions from within the app, as I can't get it to reliably work otherwise. Sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't. Right now, it's a novelty app that I can impress my husband with, when it works. But I've so far been unable to use this reliably enough to count on it when I need it... in the car, for instance. I just get frustrated and wait till I get somewhere I can pull over and press the shortcut.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Unfortunate, as there are quite a few users with no issues. Are you using a custom ROM?

Device and Android version please?
[Android Apps and Games] loribuono:
Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Android 4.2.2

Paranoid Android 3.6
[Android Apps and Games] denfokas:
can't find my post here, so writing one more:)

Great app, when do you plan to release the final version?

Can you write some thoughts about how much quicker it could be released if you had a possibility to reload classes instantly while developing and thus avoid restarts? thx:)