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[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
There is a hacked version of Google now for ICS I've seen floating around. what you guys think about that? do you think that would work?

All we're needing is that one file or so. Let me know what y'all think, not a hundred percent on where it is.

But I did see it on one of the forum sites I frequent. I'm thinking there's probably some framework file or some such that's probably ics particular. But it's worth a shot. I'll hunt around for it and post it if I can find it again.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Ken, there are several threads here at xda for it. Should be easy to find for your device. I tried it when I was on ICS on my HTC Vivid. The Google Now app itself worked, but not offline recognition. Maybe you'll have better luck.
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
evo 4g

I see a lot of you are using the HTC EVO 4G phone, as am I (but only for a couple more days). With Utter installed and running the phone's battery runs down super quick. Do you all have the same problem? Have you figured a work around?

PS. In a couple of days I'm entitled to a new phone and I'm thinking the HTC One. Are there any issues with Utter and that phone?
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
Suggestion - change utter's settings by voice and Tasker

Would it be possible to let us change at least some of utter's settings and customizations by telling it to? So we could for example change recognition language or TTS language on the fly, which would be very useful to the multilingual users among us. For example, I'll most likely have utter run in English most of the time, but I actually live in Germany, so quite often I'd need to send texts or E-mails in German. Apart from that, I'm actually from Bulgaria, so sometimes I have to do the same in Bulgarian :eek:. So it would be fantastic if I could say the following (maybe once chaining commands gets implemented):

"Send text to my mom and switch recognition language to Bulgarian" - then I'd write the text, then say "switch back to English" (in Bulgarian of course, since now recognition is in Bulgarian).

"Send text to my girlfriend's brother and switch recognition and TTS language to German" - my girlfriend doesn't speak English so I'd switch the TTS to German as well for her.

Similarly, it would be nice if Tasker can also change utter's settings - this way we could automate a lot of stuff. For example switch to an offline notes app if there is currently no internet connection and Evernote doesn't work. Or switch to silent mode if there is a calendar entry with a title "Meeting" that's currently active.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Well, no luck on my side with the supposedly modded S-voice for offline use. Still haven't tried with Google Now mods but I have lost faith on it to be honest, as it won't recognize Spanish even on Wifi. I guess I'll have to stick to online usage with Vlingo and wait for the translation of the app.

On a side note, will the translation project be on internet, with registration and stuff? As I said I'd like to help with that, so i hope it will be well organized if it allows for many translators to work on it.

And if I may suggest something, it would be good to use the TTS on the phone to make sure the translations are natural and well pronounced before sending them in, as it is a very important thing to take into account

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
No problems here w/battery. There shouldn't be problems using another phone.
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
I tried to play around with Samsung Vlingo, disabled, cleared cache, blah blah..but didnt work. But now I managed to make the offline voice engine work! Finally. I shouldnt talk too much otherwise it wont work again :silly:

So thats how my settings are:

For my Samsung Galaxy Beam JB 4.1.2 rooted phone Under Settings/Language and input:

Language: English ( United States)

Keyboards and input methods: Google voice typing English (US)- Clicking on settings there I have at Choose input languages: English (US)

Speech: Voice recognizer Google

Voice search: Language English US - at speech output I have Hands-free only, I disabled the Hotword detection

Text to speech output is Google Text to speech Engine- in there I have at chosen language English ( United States)

In Utter:

-In English voice Engine I chose "Google Text to speech" and then eng-usa ( but eng-gbr ) worked too

-I disabled at "settings" the Google Synthesised Voice

-In power user I enabled Superuser Permission

I think the problem was that one of the Google voice settings was still trying to search for a server connection so thats why that "speech server error" came. And when I was researching on the net it seems that The Google´s US language is the one that has the offline package preinstalled (even tho I dont have the option of downloading it on my phone-which brings me to the possible conclusion that its preinstalled with my google version). Finally I can go to my dreamworld gn8 :good:
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
If you had read my previous posts you would have seen that indeed, English US is as of now the only language in which offline recognition works when using the Google Speech recognition as it comes bundled with Google Search. Other languages as Spanish won't work offline despite having the downloadable files installed.. Anyways, it's good to know is working well for you now. ;)

That leaves me (for now, as i don't see other Spanish speakers around) the task to find out how to get offline recognition in our language

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
[MENTION=372306]Pretorian[/MENTION]

Cool, I copied your post to look at later. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
[Android Apps and Games] wbtlgn:
Additions

Please add ES file manager in the program list, as well as Google Keep. These two programs are widely used, especially by most of the people that I know who have Android.

And now one question: When is Wolfram Alpha going to be added? I'm asking because I have waited for months for it to be implemented; I would gladly buy it separately , but I don't want to buy it again when Utter! comes out of beta (which I will also buy for sure).
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Ben's last post regarding Wolfram Alpha was pending the final agreement with them. Don't yet know what the outcome was with them.

ES File explorer I agree would be a nice addition. Just something that needs to be added to the list.
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
Is there any way to increase the microphone sensibility of smartphones? Currently utter can understand my commands within a distance of like 70 cm. I want to increase that without using a wireless headset. Is there an app that can somehow improve the microphone?
[Android Apps and Games] freak4dell:
I mean, yeah, it's kind of boring, but I'm just thinking in a way that would make things easy. Seems like it would be easier to do functions by category, rather than jumping to different things.
[Android Apps and Games] ironlood:
One thing that I would like to point out is that this is coming along slow but with solid results and that's very good.

Next two small glitches with the config tab that I completely overlooked and neglected to mention

The 1st one is when you press the config tab and the pop up menu opens up then press back to close the menu without making a selection the app force closes with the message "Unfortunately (N)Utter has stopped"

The 2nd is when you press the config tab and the pop up menu opens up then you press a selection it performs a voice engine check, it displays the data once you go to another tab and return to the config tab I still displays the data from the earlier check and there's no pop up menu that opens, you need to close the app in order to get the menu to reappear

Pow, right in the childhood
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks (Will return to +1 meter when recharged)

1) Got it - missing any form of code to deal with the request being cancelled - Oops! :o

2) I did consider making this update everytime you go to the tab - but I wasn't convinced it was exciting enough! It's tied in with sorting out getting landscape to work, so I'll stick on the list for then...

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] mahootzki:
I'm guessing that after you have bluetooth figured out, you should move to time and weather. Those are the first on the list of people trying apps like these..

So far everything is working great on my Evo

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[Android Apps and Games] tomgillotti:
If there's something else to be said by Utter!, I like the idea of placing varying colored exclamation points in the notification bar as well as having Utter! say something to quickly get your attention like, "sir..." or "ma'am..." (the '...' Was intentional there to point out that the sir or ma'am should be sort of inquisitive of sorts. Hope that makes sense). It's just short and to the point and let's you quickly know that something requires your attention like a possible scheduling conflict.

Also, on a similar note, is there s way to have Utter! establish whether the user is male or female? People might find this a great attention to detail trait of Utter!
[Android Apps and Games] init_dot_t:
I agree with this then do time and weather like someone already stated. That way the basic system controls are functional and I think a lot of people would like and use the time and weather function.
[Android Apps and Games] ttamirt:
v1.4 works fine

1. It recognizes and turns wifi on and off without any problems.

But somehow it is not recognizing my ZIP part. Maybe I 'm taking too long pause at the end of the 'turn off / on wifi' sentence.

2. Also turning wifi on and off felt kinda pointless since it requires internet connection to process my voice command.

3. About the next feature: bluetooth is boring. :) it's just as same as wifi. But I don't wanna be picky. Any kind of improvement will be fine with me.

4. Can we name our devices (like it is a real personal assistant) maybe in the future? Which will let us use a custom name instead of using 'Android system.'

Or is it must be 'Android system' to be able to perform the tasks?
[Android Apps and Games] mahootzki:
Small bugger: was in the home tab and listening to the tap here to begin thingy when my screen went off (had it set for 30 seconds) and it stopped talking. When I opened the screen and went back to the app the tap here to begin button was was greyed out and I couldn't press it to start over again.

Also, I don't think that while listening to it, the screen should go into power saving mode, (as its being "used" ) even if yes, it should only pause then return to its location imo.

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[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
When you say 'weather', do you envisage having your default weather app open, or just asking 'what's the weather going to be like [in location] tomorrow', with a voice response?

For time - just 'what's the time [in location] now?' Anything else you expect from the command?

I like it :)

Yes I can :) I'm going to have to check with a user how they wish to be addressed anyway, but if I'm looking forward to telling them just how much I know about them on first installation... (this is quite a few versions down the line though!)

Thanks, same questions to you as above...?

1) If you say it super fast at the end is it detected?? I can provide a user customised 'pause/or end time'

2) For me, my mobile data kicks straight in - in a future release this will be a prompt to the user if a data plan is available.

3) Bluetooth is boring agreed, although a few hours into coding it, pairing, discoverability, file sharing are tangents I'm investigating.

4) Yes, you will be able to 'rename' utter! to whatever you wish so you can address it/him/her :) It was meant to only be a working-title, but it's kind of stuck! Renaming 'Android System' to your own 'title' is a little more tricky - It would be a case of dynamically renaming the database and all references to it.. Right now my head hurts to even think about how I'd do it! It's definitely possible though...

Another user commented on this - it is annoying when you have to start it all over again! Holding wakelocks to prevent the device from sleeping is something I'm reluctant to do right now, especially as detecting when the speech string completes doesn't always appear to work - I could end up killing the battery...
[Android Apps and Games] mahootzki:
I envision the same as you showed the ebay app on the YouTube video, if you have an app installed, it should open it, if not it should show the web (embedded preferably) or we should have the option of asking to show it in the app, or web.

About the time: I would like to ask something like: what time is it in London now?

How about weather AND time? What's the weather gonna be like tomorrow at 11:00 am in NYC

There is much much more you can implementonce the basics work I guess.

Sent from.... Who cares, it's here now!!
[Android Apps and Games] freak4dell:
I think I'd like to see a basic voice response, but also the app opened (if installed) to show more details. For example, if I ask "what's the weather like?" utter! would respond "it's currently 75 degrees and partly cloudy," and the weather app would open, showing details like the high, the low, forecast, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] init_dot_t:
For time Im thinking like tell the current time and ask something like is there an alarm you need to set. With weather bring up whichever weather app you may have or with multiple ask which one and if none are installed gather the info from the web. Also if possible default would just be current location but yet be allowed to ask about a different location.
[Android Apps and Games] rygo:
I'd like to see be able to read my text messages be nice for driving
[Android Apps and Games] max12354:
wonderful Job but......

Hi;

This is wonderful idea what you want to your product many others will be post it and just beta tested while the product in the market.

after siri many trying to imitate it but no success even siri wasn't a hit after all. But with Android we would like to have the right formula to have a great hit.

N utter need some new features that not been done before here is some suggestion:

1) Mode & emotion: don't make it as slave and just obey orders let it be mad, sad and effected by the daily news such as stock market, weather, political time of the month she is a lady LOL and so on.

2) Feeling like to be hungry, hot, cold, sickness cry laugh.

3) Ask you your opinion about herself and other news.

4) make here a character and you can import from animated gif so you can but your friend as one or make some default.

Now please make it soon.....

Thank youhttp://xdaforums.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
[Android Apps and Games] ttamirt:
about zip

I guess it doesn't recognize it well coz of my accent. I tried with different length of pauses. no success. same result.
[Android Apps and Games] sknight13602:
This is coming along great can't wait to see it functioning it has so much potential.

sent from my Rezound running BAMF v2.1 and loving it
[Android Apps and Games] Jterry31:
is this compatible with android 4.0??
[Android Apps and Games] OhmEye:
Wow, Brandall!

I just stumbled upon this thread and am treated to your ambitious program. As soon as I saw what you were up to I had to subscribe. :)

A trip to the market got (n)utter on my i777 running the latest AOKP 4.0.4. I ran it through its paces and was indeed able to speak WIFI off and then on with no crashes. Ivona Kendra works flawlessly on this device.

One suggestion. In the Raw tab, when I 'Tap here and fetch voice data!', I can't get the speech-to-text function to recognize the word "Utter." There may be some words or phrases that are given priority, that if user says anything that sounds remotely similar, that choice is at the top of the list.

This is coming along well. Thank you for sharing with us!
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
Love it

Hi,

I have been watching this thread for quiet some time now, but have only installed and tried (n)utter today.

It turned on and off my wi-fi almost every time, but I could not get it to recognize the word zip. I tried saying it slow, fast, with a pause and without one, still no joy.

I am guessing that it is due to my accent as I couldn't get it to pick up the word burnt in the phrase "I like mushrooms on burnt toast" either.

I have had no force closes so far and it seems very stable.

Also, thanks for putting me on to ivona. I had not heard of it before and hated the voice that came with the Galaxy S2.

I love the way this app is shaping up and can't wait until everything works..
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I've just seen a load of force close stack traces on the market... Damn. Is it force closing on opening for you?

It works fine on 4. for me, but seems not for all..

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[Android Apps and Games] stas.dikansky:
Looks amazing

Subscribed.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello!

Hope you are well, but I have looked high and low and can't find anything other than some programming instructions that "might" affect the mic sensitivity. Unfortunate as it's a neat concept.

(sigh) Maybe one day?
[Android Apps and Games] ghostryder12:
I'm having no issues with my htc ONE with anything I do to it. Having said that, I just dl this wonderful app and so far it is working as designed.

You'll LOVE the HTC One, just examine it closely for assembly line flaws when buying it. Some factories aren't doing a quality job. I believe HTC is aware cuz the China plant is ****. Taiwan plant is very good. The serial number will tell what plant assembled the device. I'll get you the link to a thread that will tell you what to look for.

Edit: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39623665

Sent from that FBI van parked down the street.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I may be misunderstanding you but, in which program list do you want ES file manager to appear? In the settings/Default Explorer it appears right there, with the name ES File Explorer (unless you're referring to a different app, if that's the case i'll shut my trap)

If you mean the Linked applications, then yes, there's no ES File Explorer/manager there but what difference would it make? it's just a list to download and install applications (except for the link option for facebook, twitter, etc.); unless i'm missing something :confused:

BTW, i think it was already mentioned before in the thread, but today i was listening to music while utter was open, and realized that they share the volume settings; so you can't really listen to utter while other media is playing. I checked the settings and it's not possible to untick the setting "Attach to Media Stream" or something like that... It would be nice to have the option to attach it to other streams, like the Alarm or system, as those are not often used, and it would allow for utter to temporarily mute the Media or Ringer stream if needed while talking. Also, i'm not sure if it's related but my music stopped on its own while Permanent recognition was on, i have to further test this, but would it mean it's not possible to have both things working at the same time?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Permanent Recognition Explanation

Hello Faku1810,

It has been mentioned about which stream can be used, and we're hoping that maybe a checkable option will be available in a future release?
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Thanks for that, however i don't use Google Play Music but just the Samsung's stock player, even the Samsung recognition as it seems to work better with spanish than Google's lol. But it might be something among those lines though; i'm trying to make Utter control my media player through Tasker so i can look into that too, thanks.

Edit: Oh, just re-read your post, yeah, i guess that if Utter does stop my music when permanent recognition is on, i'll have to go with such a "fix"; however, that reminds me of something i thought while on the bus today.. Is it possible to use Tasker to activate Utter recognition when I press the button on my headset? I think i haven't seen such a setting in Utter itself, and it would be really useful, as I could use that instead of permanent recognition, not only to save battery but because i won't feel awkward when saying "Assistant" or "Wake up" three or four times in public, lol.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
With a BT headset? You should be able to clear whatever your headset does when you press the button on it, then the next time you press it, it should give you a list of apps to choose from, one of which will be Utter.

i.e. If that button activates say voice dialing currently, then you can clear that as default, then what I said above should apply.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Well, no, i actually meant some wired earphones that came with the phone (I have been thinking of getting a BT Headset though) but it would be good if i could just make it work with these ones for now. Currently the button opens the music player and starts playing, however, if I could get to do that through Utter then i'd prefer that button to work as a trigger for Utter recognition.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I'm almost positive about redirecting output in Tasker. Someone should know on this thread. I'm pretty sure I've seen an example task for this on the Tasker Wiki too.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Thanks for the help GLDavis; I went to the tasker wiki and downloaded AutoShortcut (as i thought i could run Utter custom launcher using that plugin) and then I found out there IS a Utter plugin in tasker, which can be used to do exactly what i need; and I just made it work with a Profile with these settings: Status/Hardware/Media button/Play, great! (I had to turn off the Headphones "friend page" on the homescreen though, so it wouldn't start the music when i pressed the button)

Now all i have to do is find out a way to add a beep after a couple of seconds, as using Vlingo Recognition doesn't play any sound when it's your turn to speak and*, of course, find out how to carry out the media player control using my voice through Utter. This is looking good now :D

Edit: Nevermind, i got that, just a Wait for 2 seconds and a half, and then a Beep Once; all set. I hope setting up the media control is just as easy :victory:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I had forgotten...sort of about the tasker plugin (laughing at myself), but glad you figured something out.

I stay on this thread to not only support the developer, but for everyone as it gives me great satisfaction in being a part of this development.

So, as always, Make it a great day!
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
New Profile -> State -> Hardware -> Media Button -> Play. You might want to enable Grab and/or maybe Stop Event too, depending on your android version and whether your music app still starts or not and whether you WANT it to start or not. ;)

New Task (for the above profile) -> Plugin -> utter! -> Start Listening

Should do what you need. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Thanks for the reply, i had already figured it out though, well sort of :P I tried ticking the Grab option but it would still play music instead of calling Utter; so i just turned off the home screen "page" that was causing that. Shouldn't need it if i get to control the media player through voice though.
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
Yeah, I'd started a reply, then went to do something else and came back a few minutes later to finish it so didn't notice you'd already posted, hehe.

If you don't need or want to ALWAYS control the media player through voice, there might be some option in the player's settings about whether to monitor the headphones' button - that one might get along better with Tasker than that funky home screen widget or whatever that you had to disable.