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Using utter! in your own language

It will be a while before utter! is translated from the ground up. It’s a big job with English words and letters hard-coded thousands of times into the application and the recognition algorithms it uses. Separate language plugins will be available to download, to make sure the application size remains as small as possible. So, in the mean time, here is a work-around you can use to execute commands in your own language.

Firstly, in the main application, click on ‘Custom Launcher Shortcut’ You will be presented with a list of the recognition languages available via Google Voice Search – select yours.

You will then be given the option to select the language of the voice engine. If you have a custom introduction in your own language, then select the same language for the voice engine. If you would prefer the introductions remained in English, select the English locale of your voice engine.

An icon will be placed on your home-screen * with a reference to the language selected as the name **. When pressed, the recognition will start in your native language.

In the Customisation Tab, select ‘Replace Words’. Enter the word or words of the command that will be replace and your translation in the box below.

Here are some examples of what you can do:

For French:

Phrase: accédez à

Replacement: Navigate to

For Polish:

Phrase: Włącz dane mobilne (or perhaps Włącz internet)

Replacement: Turn on mobile data

For Portuguese:

Phrase: Nova Anotação Por Fala

Replacement: New voice note

For German:

Phrase: (an)rufen

Replacement: Call

and:

Phrase: auf ihrem handy

Replacement: On their mobile

Please note, you cannot try to replace the words ‘call on their mobile’ in one single replacement entry, as the match will only be made if the words are in succession. So, ‘call Joe Bloggs on their mobile’ would not be detected for translation (as Joe Bloggs is in the middle!). For calling contacts, you first need an entry for ‘call’ and then further separate entries for office, work, home as shown above.

Many users with contacts that are not easily recognised when using the default English Voice Search, will benefit from replacing the other command words that are associated with contact searches – ‘email’ – ‘text’ – ‘display contact’.

The responses to all commands will still be in English until the full translation to your language is ready. But I hope in the mean time, this will help you use many of the functions more naturally.

Please note - changing between voice engine languages can cause a delay whilst they are initialised. This is particularly a problem with IVONA whilst it is in beta.

WARNING! Although I'm confident that you will be able preserve your custom replacements in an XML file, it’s still early days in the testing of these features, so be prepared that if something goes wrong, you may lose them all! I apologise in advance!

Finally, hopefully utter! will be getting new website space soon and if you wish to assist in the translation of the application to your language, there will be a section there detailing how you can help out and the words and phrases needed! Thanks to all that have already volunteered to help.

* It’s been reported that some custom launchers are failing to create the short-cut. This is out of my control, sorry… A way to select which language, shake, wave, notification click start will be coming soon.

** You’ll be able to pick your own icon and label when creating launcher short-cuts soon!

EDIT - I need translation help for the above please! I Don't trust Google Translate to provide the correct context. Let me know what they should be in your language! Thank you.