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[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
:good: Fixed for the next release!

Thanks for your kind words and feedback :highfive:

I've added in the toggles for the next release, due very shortly :good: The driving mode just enables announcing everything as a shortcut to doing them all separately.

Sometimes it can take a few seconds for the device to sort out routing the audio through the headset - So it can cut off the beginning :mad:

It's on my list to configure the ringing time before utter! kicks in. Coming soon!

The messaging I'm broadcasting should be telling all apps to shutup, but it seems some are ignoring the request - Going to have another look at this later today.

Great to hear about your tweaking! You'll be entirely automated soon! :cowboy: Drop me an email from the app regarding TTS.

You're determined to make me a perfectionist :victory:

I'm going to rewrite the command creation and editing code/layout soon - so it will all change.

I'm reluctant to toast the message text, or even add an option for it. So many use the app whilst driving, that I have to consider anything that could make them take their eyes off the road.......

:D I thought f#*$ off might amuse a few people that were getting frustrated by the app and make them think twice about uninstalling it!

Just a start to the 'good morning' announcements - Adding offering to read your agenda and the news headlines to it shortly.

I aim to please! :angel:

Thanks for your approval and support :victory:

With some mean testing from you all and having to delay a little due to the GPS bug, I think this release is by far the most solid yet. For the first time ever, I've been able to polish some commands, instead of just making them function, most of the time, for most.... :rolleyes:

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[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.0.9.1.9.6 UP! (Play Store build? (attempt 5))

Hey folks, more tweaks and bug fixes in this one:

PLUGIN

I've added the following actions to the Tasker Plugin/External Intent

Toggle Driving mode = 6

Toggle Announce caller = 7

Toggle Announce notifications = 8

Credit [MENTION=4898757]mtomo82[/MENTION] for the prompting.

I won't update the actual guide until it hits the Play Store

FIXES

Calendar, all day events - Credit [MENTION=1989457]themadproducer[/MENTION] [MENTION=537847]BobD1605[/MENTION] for logs & persistence!

Calendar, today's events in the past - Credit - [MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION]

Google Launcher - Credit [MENTION=907600]Dtrieb[/MENTION]

Floating commands expand & missing info - Credit Mike Mesure via Email

Toast Timer - Credit [MENTION=5855431]Keow[/MENTION]

Remove ads immediately - Credit [MENTION=4939750]markworksfx[/MENTION]

Announcing call when already on call - Credit [MENTION=4898757]mtomo82[/MENTION]

Permanent recognition tweaks - Credit me! :cool:

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As soon as the GPS icon issue disappears, I'm pretty much ready to push it out there. There's only so long I can wait though.... :mad:

I'll keep tweaking in the mean time!

Thanks again for helping me get this far :good:

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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Ben,

By far, you would be correct, the best version of Utter is now moments away from the masses!!!!

Wonderful, wonderful work!!! THANK YOU!

QUESTION: I use Google TASKS extensively and am using Calendar++ which pulls your tasks into the calendar just like Google Calendar on the desktop...SCREENSHOT...tasks are in RED.

***anyway to get Utter to read those as part of "what's my schedule"? and label them as tasks? i.e. after the calendar events maybe something like....."you have the following tasks....blah, blah"

EDIT:...NOTE: For those of you using a 3rd Party Launcher...NOVA has added the always on OK GOOGLE to its Homescreens in a recent update which works very well.

So anytime you wake up your phone to the homescreen...just say OK Google and it works flawlessly...no buttons, gestures needed. Pretty Neat.
[Android Apps and Games] hannibalmoot:
Excellent job on the update Ben. You probably know me better as the big fan of the monster voice from the TTS beta group btw. :)

I seem to be running into lots of Network Timeouts and the voice reverting to the lame Google default but I think that's more my connection. I uninstalled the HQ Google voice which helped a bit. I also set the timeout in the TTS app to 20 seconds. Are there any other tips to help this? I usually end up with half the conversation in my fav monster voice and half in the Google chick voice. I think its causing me mental issues.

I also tried to buy you lunch but it comes up as a test order. Is that going to get reversed too? How am I supposed to buy you lunch so you don't starve? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thank you thank you :D

Tasks involves authenticating your Google Account. It is on my to-do list, but not because it's a little tricky, it's not to near the top I'm afraid...

Welcome to the thread! There are a few server issues I need to sort out. I'll be back to look at it in a week or so once I've seen this release through to stability. In the mean time, I would switch voice, because that would drive me nuts!! :eek:

Don't worry about lunch - Thanks anyway, but your TTS testing has been super useful :good:
[Android Apps and Games] mpd81:
SMS edit

Would it be possible in a future release to be able to edit a dictated text message by voice instead of having to cancel and start again if utter! Doesn't quite hear what I've said?

Also I no longer have the GPS icon appearing in the status bar when using utter! Or Whilst using Google search :good:
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
I think you are being overcautious here. Wouldn’t it be even more of a distraction if they choose to proofread it because they weren’t sure from the verbal confirmation if the transcription is correct? In that sense, quickly skimming the toasted message might actually be safer.

But ultimately, it comes down to the individual. No amount of carefulness on your part can save them if they are not serious about road safety. I think it would be a very useful addition. It shouldn’t even be a preference, in fact—just the way the feature should be designed to work. But it’s up to you, of course.

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Offtopic: Do you guys know of any backup app for non-rooted Android phones that will securely back up and restore app data to and from the cloud? I’ve accumulated such a huge database of custom commands and word replacements in Utter and Tasker combined that I’m very weary of losing it.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Doesn't titanium backup offer that?

If not, then My Backup Pro is an option
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Titanium Backup only works on rooted devices. My Backup Pro, like every other backup app on the Play Store, has tons of horror stories and negative reviews. I was hoping someone here could recommend something from personal experience.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Personal experience....I've used My Backup Pro for both Rooted and Non-Rooted phones and never had an issue. (Just like any app out there...it all depends on the "saviness" of the user.) ;)
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Ah, that’s all I need. Thank you!

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Feature request: Calculations. Google Now can do it, so should Utter. Simple additions and subtractions, at the very least, and preferably even a bit more.
[Android Apps and Games] Danygold:
sms time out

Excellent job on the update Ben

Surprise after surprise it’s getting there can’t wait for the next update and see what next.

I love your work and by far the best

About sms when you dictate a text to someone. It don’t give us the time to finish the sentence it directly pass to proof read, or send, is there a limit to the text we can send. I have made many test and the max. Is about 10 words if I talk really fast it get it all no mistake but no more. If so it will be nice as someone said to be able to edit the text by voice so that way we may be able to get it all in but much better if we could finish the all dictation.

So far v3.0.9.1.6B is the best and very pleasing to work with and to ear. Good work
[Android Apps and Games] MrsRockguru:
Concure

To echo mpd81, the old blind bugger would be greatfully appreciated for this feature, as being able to proof read a message is really beyond his ken.....

'Typed by the harrised secretary MrsRockguru' :)
[Android Apps and Games] mtomo82:
You absolute leg end!! What a developer you are, never seen so much suopirt/communication/proactive Ness from a Dev.

Toggles working great, I've sent you an email regarding tts.
[Android Apps and Games] Keow:
cancel timer and maybe some greeting function

[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

Thanks for the timer toast, I try it and it work great.

By the way, can you also add option to cancel the timer. Let's say if I want to cancel the timer I created, I can just say cancel timer.

Beside, I wonder if you had watch iron man. When tony awake in morning, jarvis will wish him morning and tell him some basic info like date, weather, and schedule of the day.

What I thinking is maybe when utter heard "good morning or afternoon or evening" it would response with greeting and tell some basic info of the day. For example

"Good morning sir, today is Friday, 4th of june, weather of today is 30 degree, sunny"

After that, it can ask whether you want utter to read out schedule of the day. If you silent, it will reply something like have a great day or some random reply like you look great today. If you say yes, utter will read out today schedule.

Just thought it could be fun.... anyway thanks again
[Android Apps and Games] mtomo82:
Great idea, samsung used to have a feature like this when alarm went off (or HTC maybe?) which I loved. So if you are going to do this Ben maybe you could incorporate a plug in for tasker so we can trigger at certain time or when alarm goes off?
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Bug report: This is what the Floating Commands window looks like on my phone:

I have a feeling this isn't intentional. The trouble seems to be that both the background and the text on it are white.

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I love the idea of Utter reading us the news in the morning. When you do implement it, please allow us to select content and region preferences, if possible.
[Android Apps and Games] Proud2bNoob:
Anyone else having problems opening utter? Everytime I try it FCs.

It used to work but the last couple of builds have this issue. the playstore version still works fine. I'm using a gs3 with slimkat... are there any known bugs that might be causing this?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
A force close! :mad: Not had one of these for a while.... Would be really grateful if you could grab me a log of the output. If you don't know how to do it, let me know and I'll talk you through it. Thanks meter +1 waiting!

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Thanks for all of your posts folks, I'll reply to them all shortly :good:

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[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
:) Thanks for your comments folks :good: I am going to work on editing text by voice, but it's by no means easy if you want to use natural language......

^ It's no easy task..... Using strict syntax it's achievable now, but I need to start pushing the boundaries on all new implementations.

If you're running ICS or lower, you can change the pause timeout in the Advanced Settings to give you a chance to breath. Unfortunately Google broke this in Jelly Bean. I do keep hassling them about it!

I still have the GPS icon appearing :crying:

I agree in isolation, but I also have to consider my 'responsibility' to how I know users will ultimately take their eyes off the road. I shall ponder further :good:

So true!

Great minds ;) Say:

Calculate 9 + 5 divided by 2

Calculate 9 squared

Any complex calculations, such as 'the diameter of the sun divided by the height of the Empire State Building' will be passed to Wolfram Alpha, although it forces closes at the moment of course.....

Thank you thank you! :victory: Will check my emails soon :good:

I've not found a way to cancel a Timer I'm afraid... It would be handy...

I'll make sure the morning greeting is configurable for you. If you're a Tasker user, you could create something like this already, using the notify plugin feature, so it's there for you to press when you rise.

I going to get a little more complex than this...... all will be revealed soon!

Good spot! Thank you. Not sure why it should be like that.... but I'll see if forcing a text colour overrides your device's theme.... :good:

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[Android Apps and Games] Proud2bNoob:
Yes, that would be helpful. Haven't ever really had to grab a log before...

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thank you :good: The easiest way is to generate one via the Developer Options.

Please can you make the app crash a few times first. Then:

In your Android Settings, you may have Developer Options down the bottom near 'About'. If you don't, go to About Device and Click on build number/version about 5 times, until it toast 'you are now a developer!'

Then, in the Developer options that have appeared, the top option should be Take Bug Report. If you click that, a few minutes later a notification should appear saying it has been created. If you email it directly to me (as it's quite a big file) @ utter[dot]android[at]gmail.com

If you struggle, let me know :good:

Thanks meter + lots awaits!
[Android Apps and Games] mpd81:
voice editing

[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

Thanks for your comments folks I am going to work on editing text by voice, but it's by no means easy if you want to use natural language......

Quote:

Change 'said' to 'say'

Change 'said' to say 'saying'

Change 'said' to say 'saying' instead

Change 'staying instead'' to say 'saying instead'

^ It's no easy task..... Using strict syntax it's achievable now, but I need to start pushing the boundaries on all new implementations.

Have you used the app robin (the siri challenger)? It's by no means as useful or as feature rich as utter! But their implementation of texting is pretty impressive, you dictate your message and it reads it back to you and you can carry on dictating line by line or you can say replace whatever word or sentence is incorrect with whatever word or sentence you would like and it will read it out again for you and you can just say send or cancel, I don't know if you can take some cues from that app or whether you would even want to but it's the best implementation of text editing I've seen on any voice assistant obviously no disrespect to utter! intended
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
None taken of course! I will check it out :good:

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[Android Apps and Games] markworksfx:
If you haven't rooted your phone you haven't unlocked the full potential of your phone

sent from the J.A.R.V.I.S. system
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Haha! Does that mean we have :victory: on the time travelling....?

Agreed! I'm surprised for all of your tweaking [MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION] that you've not taken the plunge..... :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] eymas:
Might be repeating here, but is there a guide that easily explains IFTTT statements and actions in tasker?

Sorry if I am repeating a previous post.
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
@brandall

Ohhhhh......Yeaaaahhhh!!!

Even 2 day "All Day Events".

You are cleared for take off! :good::good::good:

@aryayush
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Sorry, but I'm not sure what IFTTT statements are!? :(

LOL! :laugh: Still tweaking!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.0.9.1.9.7 UP! (Play Store build? (attempt 6))

Hey folks, just a couple more fixes....

FIXES

Tried to handle the audio ducking of apps such as PowerAmp - They aren't behaving correctly :mad: Spotify, All Access, Rdio all play by the rules, but not some others.... I've tweaked this the best I can without silencing everything, forever.

Text colour in floating window - [MENTION=5050900]aryayush[/MENTION]

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Very tempted to push this to the Play Store. I've searched on Google to see how many complaints there are about the GPS icon in Google Now and I can find nothing........ Which is actually quite annoying...

Going to see if I can grab a log from [MENTION=5654705]Proud2bNoob[/MENTION] to make sure it's nothing serious.

If I don't push it soon, I'll have to wait until Monday, due to media interest and downloads etc which subside at the weekend.

Question - Are you seeing ads in the Settings Section and Linked Apps? I'm not getting any reports of views on those... :mad: Having an ad issue is the last hold up I need!

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[Android Apps and Games] eymas:
Ah. Forgive me for the lack of explanation: (00:54 here.)

IFTTT stands for "If This Then That" which implies creating custom commands etc. with ease. Like: if(batteryPercent<=15%){utter():Speak("Your battery level is low, you might want to charge your phone."}

I got kind of confused with Tasker since i'm used to those :rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Got you. The best place to start would probably be the guide in my signature, followed by the Tasker Plugin guide, which should talk you through quite steadily how you can configure various IFTTT actions <-- See, I'm learning! :cyclops:
[Android Apps and Games] eymas:
And so am I. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Keow:
Looking forward to you Complex morning greeting in next release :D

[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

Great. Hope to see your morning greeting feature in play store release!! I like the more complex part you saying, look like more fascinating feature to play with!! Looking forward to that!
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

I tested "audio ducking" with the latest version of Utter using Slacker and PowerAmp both exhibiting similar results with and without headphones.

1) I use a manual Gesture to initiate Utter.

2) Utter Says "Yes, can I help you etc". During this...audio ducks 100% of the times. :good:

3) Beep...then 3/4 of the times, music resumes while Utter is waiting for my answer. :( But 1/4 or more of the times, Audio actually DUCKS while audio is waiting. :confused:

4) Then I Say eg. "What time is it?".

5) Audio ducks 100% of the times and my answer is dictated successfully. :good:

So in conclusion, the inconsistency of audio ducking failure only happens at the point when Utter is waiting for my response, otherwise every other stage seems to be ducking audio properly. Let me know if you want me to use a specific method or logging to help track the issue. Again, I'm on a Stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 rom, so this could be part of the overall picture.
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
Calculate, Superuser Reboot

"Calculate 8+8"...

"Sorry but I couldn't get an answer for that. Complex calculation is currently disabled."

"Calculate 7+7"...

"7+7=14.0"

"Calculate 8+10"...

"8+10=18.0"

"Calculate 8+2"...

"Sorry but I couldn't get an answer for that. Complex calculation is currently disabled."

And (I've checked back through the thread, to the best of my limited ability) in case it's thought to be fixed, I still don't get 'Superuser reboot' to work. It used to work for me.

This app has now well and truly exceeded my imagination, so I continue to be UTTERLY in awe of your work Ben!!!:good:
[Android Apps and Games] themadproducer:
[MENTION=5055950]gbossley[/MENTION] [MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION]

I tested all the math from the above quote, and they all worked fine...for me. (every test had the "Point Zero")

Also, SuperUser Reboot worked for me as well...Utter first said, "I feel Sleepy!" :laugh:

This is with the latest Beta.
[Android Apps and Games] markworksfx:
[MENTION=984710]brandall[/MENTION] can you explain the use of the utter plugin for tasker can I use it to send commands to utter that's what I'm hopeing for example: ask tasker via auto voice "what's on my calender for tomorrow" and have that sent to utter

sent from the J.A.R.V.I.S. system
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for this :good: It's pretty much what I'm experiencing, which is incorrect behaviour. When the TTS speaks, they should just lower their volume and when the recognition starts, the audio should pause. Instead, PowerAmp is pausing initially and then doing nothing....

I think it'll have to do for now....

Thanks [MENTION=5055950]gbossley[/MENTION] [MENTION=1989457]themadproducer[/MENTION]

I think that it must be a recognition error as to why it's not performing some of those basic calculations for you [MENTION=5055950]gbossley[/MENTION] ?

For SuperUser, try this:

1) Go to the Power User Settings

2) Update BusyBox from the link

3) Untick SuperUser access in utter!

4) Tick it again

5) Reboot

6) Open utter! and wait 30 seconds,,,,, and then try again :fingers-crossed:

:good:

Yes, you can send variables to utter! and make it speak and listen etc. I hope I explain it step by step in the user guide, so shouldn't be too tricky to follow.

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[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.0.9.1.9.8 UP! Play Store build

This is it folks, the Play Store Build.... There's not a lot else I can do now! :fingers-crossed:

Thanks to [MENTION=5654705]Proud2bNoob[/MENTION] for his logs which caught a Google Play Services installation issue.

I'm going to grab a few hours sleep, before I return and push this at about 2pm GMT.

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Massive thank you to all of you for your testing skills, support, suggestions and encouragement.

Let the games begin :cowboy:

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[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
[MENTION=4939750]markworksfx[/MENTION]

But you cannot send text to Utter through Tasker as a command. So the setup you are looking for, where you use AutoVoice for voice input and then selectively send some commands to Utter, isn't possible.

What you CAN do is send all of Utter's unrecognised commands to Tasker and then do with them what you will (so you don't have to use AutoVoice). I do through Utter everything that others use AutoVoice for.
[Android Apps and Games] BobD1605:
:) I can confirm this is fixed in the latest build.
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
Delete.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Here’s another question I’ve been meaning to ask for a while now: How come Utter works in the absence of an Internet connection but the accuracy goes down the toilet? I’ll say something like “create event 4 pm called meeting with the site supervisor”, and it’ll come up with “i am miss america come and party at my house” or something equally insane! It would be better if it just told me to stay away if I tried using it in the absence of an Internet connection.

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This always works for me:

Launch Utter (the app, not the voice recognition).

Tap on the Power button (at the top-right).

Go to the Recent Apps screen.

Swipe Utter away.

Launch it again (the app, not the voice recognition).

Go to the Home screen.

Launch voice recognition.