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[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Yeah I'll give that a try I was using ivona & that sounded really nice but I'll try svox and see what I get. It'll be after work but I'll let you know the what happens.

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I wasn't able to find the folder either using es file Explorer I had to use SM manager to get to it and have it show and it was empty for me to but add soon as I put the Italian files in there my phone started sounding like Mussolini so it does do something
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
hearing voices

I use SVOX Victoria...She has a sexy voice!

In other news...I'm about to switch phones. Getting the HTC One. Are there any issues using that phone with Utter?
[Android Apps and Games] Robster95:
Music Player

When I use the music player commands utter seems to use its own music player or a different player on yhe phone. How do I change music players? The music player it uses will stop playing the song if any part of the phone is touched. I would like to browse the phone while the song is playing. Also, the music player is not quite fully compatible with my car and the buttons on the dash. The music player that is standard on the phone works fine but I can't get utter to use it. Thanks for the great app.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I'm sorry if this has been brought up already, but I just can't read so many pages, and a quick search with the terms "continuous input", and "samsung keyboard" gave me no results in this thread.. So, here's the deal, i just installed this app and aside from it being a pain (i know it's temporarily) to get my Spanish commands to be recognized, and for it to call me "asterisk asterisk ..." whenever i tell it to call me Facundo, it's a great app and i really congratulate you for your work.

However, i just noticed that since i installed Utter! my Samsung Keyboard can't use the Continuous input (aka. Swype-like input) anymore. I tried rebooting many times, changing some settings, but nothing, it could only work again after i uninstalled Utter, which hurted a lot after so much time configuring my commands (even though I did a back up with Titanium)

Is there any way i can have both things working? I really like this voice assistant and i would like to keep using, as it actually works on the background, not like S-Voice that it's plainly useless unless the screen is on and the app is open.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PD: I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hi!

I've been on this thread since the beginning and have never encountered your problem. There has been a conflict with S voice however. Was your S voice enabled when utter was installed? If so, please disable it then reinstall utter.

Lemme know if that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Hey gldavis,

That did it, success, :D Hahahahaha.

I want to thank you very much for going through all that crap with me. now I have a sexy ass British chic on my phone. Hope the wife doesn't get jealous ;) can't wait for Monday to show my iPhone carrying, siri not getting it right, boss what a real voice assistant is all about. :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Another victory, but I'm still perplexed as to what brings it all together. You should be able... I think, change your voice engine if you want and they should all work... I think? Anyway it's great to help out and glad to be of service.

As always.... Make it a great day!
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Yes! That must have been the problem, I had uninstalled S-Voice after I saw Utter didn't work, but didn't try to re-install the app until now, keyboard and utter are working well now, thanks a lot!

I feel kinda dumb for posting here before I actually tried to uninstall S-Voice, though, but I guess it will help if someone else comes across this in the next 2 o 3 pages lol.

Edit: I just found out it wasn't really S-Voice fault.. Well, probably, as i tried to activate Utter! on accesibility options so it could read my notifications, i got the keyboard option greyed out again, so i guess that's the responsible.

Now I'm having trouble getting the offline recognition to work, but I guess it's because I can only pick Spanish if I use Samsung TTS, while with Google Voice Engine I can only choose english, despite me having installed the Spanish (Spain) voice files for Google Search. I understand if this happens when i pick the English Voice Engine in the Settings, but is it supposed to also be like that when i'm creating the Custom Launcher or should I be able to see Spanish as an option there?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Cool! Yet another victory. I'll revisit your post tomorrow... Tired.

So... My standard line....

Make it a great day!

Glad I could help. Till tomorrow.
[Android Apps and Games] megazeroxuxm:
Hello everybody! idk what i did wrong, but ever since a few weeks, ago, the app crashes when ever I say "stream ____" which should stream music from google play music. Does anyone else have this problem and are there any remedies? I've been searching and it seems that no one is having the same problems, so I think it's on google's end, but idk where to start looking! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] komarak:
Call Confirmation

Hopefully this is not an old subject.

When I say "Call John Doe Work" most of the time Utter works fine and call the correct person. But sometimes it calls the wrong person. Is there a way to have Utter say the name and locatin (i.e. Mobil or home, etc.) before it places the call ... i.e. have it say the name and lcation and then say "is this correct" if I say yes then it places the call, if I say "no" then it either exits or askes me tr repeat the neam. Vlingo used to work this way really well.

Thanks,

KJK
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Thanks for the help, i hope you get a good rest :)

Just to provide a bit more info about my problem.. I downloaded and installed SVOX and Spanish Mexican voice and I tried setting it as default on Android settings and made a new launcher for Utter (useless, since i just tried with my previous launcher and they all work with the same voice, despite being created with different settings)

Anyways, after some testing i have come to the conclusion that Utter keeps SVOX Spanish voice active the whole time, while if i choose Google's or Samsung's Spanish voices, they work for the intro, and then default to the english voice after the first command. This wouldn't bother me so much if it was just the voice, however, it also stops recognizing my "Replaced words" leaving me no choice but to use english commands instead of my spanish ones; it also happens with SVOX but it understands a few more commands before making me switch to english.

Any idea on how to make Utter use my spanish voices permanently (preferably Samsung's) and to get it to recognize what i say? I'd like to have a spanish voice when the translations are done*, so it would be helpful to figure out what's wrong there.. I know the offline files are there because otherwise it would give me a server error when i try to use it, however it won't work, not even on wifi :(

* I can help with the translation to spanish when the time comes, would be a pleasure to help with such a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I just tested this today as a new update to Google search came across... IT DOES CAUSE UTTER TO CRASH EVERY TIME.

There is a new function or something I was reading about regarding music. They might have made something better for Ben's work with some coding changes?
[Android Apps and Games] OaklandRaiders86:
Would love to start using this app but when will google voice SMS be supported? I use the google voice app to do all my texting.

The only other app like this one that I can find that supports reading your texts and replying to texts through google voice is EVA and that looks like it was designed by a beauty school dropout or something
[Android Apps and Games] megazeroxuxm:
Idk bro, I'm just trying to figure it out cause it used to work perfectly. Maybe Ben can give some insight. I guess I'll just download all my music and physically place then on my phone for offline use then.
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
Ken, did u download the trial or the full version which costs 2,29 euros? I dont wanna download the paid version and then realize it doesnt work :D

EDIT: I downloaded the trial of Svox Grace, chose her in the utter settings, as well as in the Text-to speech output but I still get that error. Can you pls tell me if I miss anything here? Could u explain your settings please
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello !

This feature is supposed to be in the next release.:D
[Android Apps and Games] Giot:
Quick question. What audio stream does utter use? It seems like it is just the standard media stream. Is there a way to make utter use the ringer stream instead? I am standardizing my tasker speaking tasks to the ringer stream so that if I have sound playing, the voice will automatically mute the media stream and talk, then unmute the media stream.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello Giot,

From what I can gather it is the standard media stream. Don't know if that can be changed but posting up here we'll get the developer to look at it. Maybe we could have a toggle to select which stream we could use?

Have a great weekend!
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Hey there, I'd appreciate if someone could clarify me some things to see if i understood correctly..

As of now, the app asks us to set up an English Voice Engine just to have a default voice to work out of the box, so to speak, right? Since it's assured the recognition would work online as well as offline.

Therefore, when we setup a custom launcher, it ask us to choose the language we want to be recognized.. Does this apply only to online recognition? I've seen the list is the same you get when choosing language for Google Voice Search, so I'm not really sure, because it would mean it SHOULD work for offline recognition the same way Google Voice Search does...

But then that arises another question.. Right now, offline recognition doesn't work for me on google search, despite having the language files downloaded. I must set the language in english (US) for it to work, and as such, it won't recognize spanish terms, I've already tried uninstalling it completely (as i'm root) and downloading it again from the store, but to no avail, it just won't let me speak spanish offline. Any idea on what should I do? I've already checked that I do have the es-Es folder created inside data/data/COM.Google.android.quicksearchbox/app_g3_models so I don't know what the hell's going on here..

Anyways, since google now is not working offline, would that be the reason why utter can't recognize my spanish words either? Because I tried changing the recognition software to Vlingo and it does work well, however, it's online only, and i'd much prefer to have it offline too.. Is there any other alternative that i can try or should i wait for a fix / next update on google now?

Also, the translations that will be done are merely for responses to commands, is that right? That would mean I DO need to get recognition working on my account, as the next release won't have anything to do on that matter..
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
I set everything I could find to English UK, but chose svox tts as the voice engine in the phone settings. And yes I went with the trial version, I picked Victoria as the voice. You need the engine app and the voice pack. Can't say what'll happen when the trial is over but so far so good. If that doesn't work for ya let me know. And I'll look through all my settings just to make sure what's what. But everything I did is posted in the thread. I know I jumped around allot, so it may not be the easiest to understand that way.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Thanks for that. Seems that UK as always is what gets it working for some reason. After that I think you can switch voices and still get offline?
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Haven't actually tried switching the voice, kinda like the accent. She's got this Smokey lounge singer kind of voice, where the Google voice sounds like a teeny bopper. (Like me a woman, not a little girl :rolleyes: ) But I digress.

I looked, and I have the voice engine in utter set to svox tts as the preferred engine and in the phone settings also. When you get the voice pack from the play store, you still have to go into it and have it download the data. Mind you that's in the voice package trial part not the engine itself. Seemed weird to me but it worked. Not sure how long it gives you in the trial, it throws out a date, I just didn't pay much attention to it. Wanted it to work, didn't care about the time limit. When the trial ends I'll give the English US voice a shot.

Maybe Ben put a bias in there for some preference he may have.

Lmao... couldn't resist
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I do not intend to be rude in any way, but i would certainly appreciate that someone answered my question, even though i know i tend to make tl;dr posts..

Is google voice search offline recognition not working at all for spanish? I've googled and searched everywhere and i only find things from last year saying it doesn't work, or recent that say it does work.. If it doesn't work at all, what alternative do I have to be recognized in spanish without the need for an internet connection?

I just don't understand Google.. what's the point of making me download language files to my phone if it won't use them at all? It's getting on my nerves already.. I've even tried downloading Italian, and UK language files, but it won't work with them either :rolleyes:

If someone with access to wifi could download the Spanish files and check if it gets the option to work offline (you don't even have to test it if you don't speak the language, just check if Google Now gives an error or not being offline) that would tell me if it's my phone's problem or something
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Trust me I am not pushing a specific app or anything but that svox app actually has the option to use Mexican Spanish or European Spanish as the language that might help you get it started where the rest of us have been having the same problem. I read it has to do with the phone itself. from what I understand Google isn't allowing it out to phones that they don't feel can "handle" it. Happened to pick that "rumor" up in the thread link I posted further back in this thread. I saw during my own adventures the ability to download Spanish, German, Italian, etc.. got it to speak Italian but honestly didn't try it offline. Once I get utter to make a calendar appointment for me, I'll only use Google now for the cards it throws up. They are very handy I must say, you just have to have GPS on all the time so it knows where your at, and can throw out the appropriate cards. Look in that thread it's specific to Google now and that very issue. I was only concerned with utter working offline.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Thanks for replying, indeed, i have tested svox and it worked fine alright, i even installed Ivona to try it out, but those are just the voices that talk to me. My problem is not whether the voice speaks spanish or not as the replies are in english anyways, but the fact that Google Voice Recognition is not recognizing the spanish language unless I turn the wifi on... if I change the settings to Samsung's Vlingo, it will work just as good, but again, only with an active connection.

I don't really care about Google Now, i want utter to recognize my spanish words offline, but to do that, i need that google now and any other app that uses voice recognition works offline too.. That's my problem. My device is perfectly capable of doing so, as I only need to change the language to English US and it will work like a charm, but for some reason, it won't work with any other language, no matter how much I try... and it makes no sense at all, if it won't work, Google shouldn't give the option to download those languages.
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Oh I understand where you're coming from it worked just fine last night but I got a Google update and now it's not allowing me to do it off-line. Have you gone into text to speech output and seen what you have it set for there?
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
In text to speech i have Ivona, Google and Samsung TTS, but as I said, it doesn't matter what i set there, that's only to get the voice replies. Right now i chose Google TTS with the spanish voice, but i'm certain that's not the problem here because i tried with all of them to no avail.

This issue comes from the Speech to Voice software, as it should allow the Voice Search to use the language files downloaded through its settings while there's no wifi or 3g connection. However, though it works for the Dictation in the keyboard, the Voice Search just won't work unless there's internet. If I choose "Samsung powered by Vlingo" instead of "Google" in the Speech to text settings, it will work well too, but only with wifi and i need it to recognize me being offline.. otherwise utter won't be as useful as it could be.

Just in case, I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3, and I'm certain it has nothing to do with S-Voice being present on the device, as i've frozen it and Google (and therefore, utter also) will still refuse to understand spanish.

Edit: I'm just about to give up... I had done all my testing while being offline, so I understood that utter would only recognize one command before defaulting the recognition to english.. But Google's spanish recognition actually stops working even with wifi on; I changed to Samsung's recognition and it worked perfectly (except for the "Abrir" command to open the apps) So I can only guess Google is stepping on Spanish language as it pleases.. That's too bad, as speech to text is too slow on 3g, i needed something offline, but i'm not going to go around giving orders in english to my phone.
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Well last night I had it working. Got an update of Google search, and I'm back to it not working offline. Tried uninstalling the updates with no luck. I did do a nandroid backup while it was working. Gonna go back to that and see what happens. But after all I went through to get it to work I'm just going to wait till tomorrow to resume banging my head against the wall.

Truth be told I'm almost always on some kind of data connection, so the offline thing isn't the end of the world. For me it's a matter of principal more than anything else
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
I tend to use data connection for a good part of the day too, however, I'd rather have a local recognition for speed and to avoid data consumption, mainly. I'd try reverting the updates on my Google Search, but the version the phone came with didn't include the offline option, so I'll probably try looking for an apk on the internet and try with that.. Hope that works but i'm not sure.
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
Whatever you find (if you do) that works, please let us know. I'm curious as heck as to why I had it working last night and now not. Haven't gone to my backup yet to see if it'll work. But I'd much rather have something permanent than what has apparently happened to me with Google search updating and screwing with it.

I foolishly had the playstore updating automatically over WiFi, needless to say that option has now been disabled. And it's the only thing that did update at the time, so is the only cause that I can think of for this to have happened.

Don't know how it would go. But I would think that if we were to find said Google search with the offline stuff enabled and pushed it to our devices & disabling it from updating it'd work. As I posted earlier there is that folder that holds the files. It just seems to be empty for most folks. But it does do something. Putting those Italian files in there allowed for language downloads (Spanish included) I'm no pc guru or anything. Just a tile & marble guy wanting as much as he can get for the money.

But if I find something I'll post it for everybody.

Update: don't know if these will help, but they're files I found last night that worked for some people. One is an older version of Google search, the other is a modified version, and just for fun the Italian language pack. Let me know if they work for anybody, and how you made it happen.

http://db.tt/2fGu75Hf
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
I tried what you said Ken but I realized that the settings were anyway the same. Still no progress.. BUT then I went into the language and input on my samsung galaxy beam phone and as a voice recogniser I chose Samsung powered by Vlingo. Then I enabled utter again and there was no speech server error. It was listening right away and didnt ask for any stupid connection. But then Vlingo asked me to accept or decline the terms and conditions. So I pressed on Accept and that was a bad mistake. SO DO NOT PRESS ON ACCEPT! (i would just press on the home button and if that doesnt work on decline) I tried utter again and it started with " I lost the network connection" so same s*** Im so pissed off right now, it worked and just because I pressed on Accept I think it tried to connect to the samsung servers and thats why I get the error again. So I want to disable vlingo and enable it again, so undo my action. Anybody knows how to remove it and enable it again ( like a fresh installation)? Was thinking of permission pro but doesnt work atm for me. Damnit. If nothing will work I will reflash the jb kernel again to my beam and then it should work
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Ken, Petorian, & Faku,

The update broke the streaming music command for some of us as well. Frustrated... Google is notorious for it, so don't get too bent out of shape. Ben is already aware of the update and is looking into it.

One or all of you or someone else will stumble upon an answer somewhere, so it's just a matter of time I think. I spent a lot of time with Ken just to see those efforts lost, so I too feel somewhat disgruntled over these new issues.:confused::confused::confused:

It did not affect my offline, but I haven't gone through all the command structure yet to see what else might be broken.

Your efforts have not gone unnoticed, thank you all for your input, and let's keep plugging away. Your comments and the ones before are the backbone of what has made utter what it is today.

Deep breath and off we go again!
[Android Apps and Games] Ken C:
I was running an LG optimus elite for a little bit. (Very low end phone) gave it to my son to use over WiFi. They just updated his rom and I was reading through the thread. There were people crabbing over there about how they were able to go offline with Google now, but something in the update caused it to stop working.

Not that it's utter, but can I safely assume that the voice recognition part of both "pull" for lack of a better word, from the same servers? I think I remember Ben mentioning it a some point. But would hate to quote the man and be wrong.

We hadn't updated his phone yet and I'm curious if I could put gnow on his device see if I can get the offline recognition stuff from him. Don't know, just thinking out loud.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
They do in fact communicate with the Google servers.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
What if you cleared the data for the app? I would think that would bring back the terms and conditions screen.
[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
This, most certainly deleting all data from the app manager should work, I also have Vlingo so I will try now and report back.

On a side note, i did try installing an older apk of google now but to no avail, it would still ignore my spanish folder. I haven't tried with Ken's files though

Ken C, i've had issues with autoupdating in the past too, now i only let it tell me when there are updates or check manually and decide for Myself, much like i do on Windows

Edit: i cant find the name for the vlingo software in the app manager, now i'm downloading a modded version that should work offline so i'll try and see what i get

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