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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Utter & Notifications

To Bruce7373 & abledanm

Well using the accessibility setting Talkback even when everything unchecked results in the phone speaking which screen you're on, what line your on, home screen, settings and so forth so that is not abledanm's issue.

There must be another setting on your phone abledanm somewhere that got unchecked and now you don't have it speaking your caller ID.

Like I said before, I have notifications enabled but utter has never spoken the caller's name for me...so I'm pretty sure it has to be a feature on your phone that has been disabled.

*** Note regarding screen freezing when trying to "enable" Talkback.

1. If you turn Utter Off in accessibility it says that this will stop Utter...but it does remain active in the Notification Bar.

2. Go into Utter's menu, turn Utter off from within the app.

3. Now if you go back to accessibility and enable Talkback, it will work!!!!!!

4. For some reason when Utter is active, if you try to enable Talkback it will freeze the screen for a few minutes.
[Android Apps and Games] billyng91:
auto start/stop listening?

I realise when I enable 'start listening' and I switch the screen off, utter actually listens in the background and will switch on the screen and listen to you once you say 'wake up'. Thats a pretty neat trick, however, it is extremely battery intensive.

May I suggest to implement a setting enable the user to toggle auto 'start listening' when device screen is on, and auto 'stop listening' when device screen is off?

That way, we still get the functionality we want, except it wont wake from sleep, but saves alot of battery.

Awesome app btw, keep up the good work! I wun mind paying for a quality app like this!

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
No, it doesn't, at least not for me. I'm having the same issue with utter completely shut down. Talkback will consistently crash. I rebooted, and now the screen is frozen again on the error dialog box, so unless it clears up in a few minutes, I'm looking at another battery pull and reflash of the ROM, because I can't get into Settings to turn Talkback off. :mad:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
So, I would wait...at least 10 minutes and try the back button to clear the message, or just press buttons..which eventually seems to get me out... then you should be able to turn OFF talkback since you're not gonna use it anyway. As long as Utter is ON, notifications, etc should work as before.

Not sure if it's because we're working with custom ROM's or there's code that's creating the conflict.

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That would indeed save battery, however then, it does defeat the purpose somewhat. I use an example of driving where you need to make a phone call or send a text...Sure, you could hit the power button and then tell Utter to wake up and that is functional, but again we're back to distraction from the road. Or you're working at home maybe and maybe both hands are busy and you wanted to make a call. Then of course, you have to set something down, hit the power button and issue your command.

It all comes down to what feels comfortable to user and how you live your daily life.

However...an option to enable what you've posted would be the best of both. You can then setup what works for you and that's what has made Utter so appealing to its users...the ability to customize.

I've said it before, this is why we're here. Sharing ideas so the developer can make Utter even more presentable.

Thank you for this.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Safe Mode on JB Rom (Tip)

Quick note to you...I think I saw you're now on a JB ROM? Did you know that you can now boot into SAFE MODE? Or at least you should be able to.

Hold down the power button till you get the menu to Power Off, Reboot, Airplane Mode, Screenshot, etc.

With your fingers, press on Reboot and HOLD for a couple seconds and a dialog should come up asking if you want to boot into Safe Mode (much like a PC). That just might allow you back into your system and let you disable Talkback without reflashing. It's also great for fixing those rogue apps that create problems from time to time too!!!
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
I couldn't. While I could get the reboot menu to come up, the frozen Talkback dialog box had focus and there was no getting around that. So the only option I had was to pull the battery.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Darn it! What the heck?

Did you try after pulling the battery to boot into recovery and wipe cache & dalvik cache? That should reindex all app info and maybe get you out of that?
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Not quite. What happened was, at first, the error message could be dismissed, but it would pop right back. But I was able to get into the reboot menu. So I rebooted into Recovery and wiped caches, but when I rebooted the system, it loaded that error message and now the box was frozen. So battery pull. By this time, I was over it and just did a fresh install. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Per something you sent...a dirty flash probably would have cleared it. Utter uses I think Talkback services, so if Utter shows in the accessibility menu with a status of ON you should be fine if you wish to hear your notifications. I would just stay away from Talkback itself until it gets figured out.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Hi folks, I'm back! 90% finished what I hope to be the final Play Store bug fix version, then it will be back to here to test out some cool new features!

Thanks as always to those answering posts in my absence, I shall increase your thanks meters accordingly!

If you have a network connection (but data turned off) then text messaging should work - but if you are in aeroplane mode, then there's no way to send the text, so it will fail....

It shouldn't take that long. What device OS do you have?

I'm not going to go with Pocket Sphinx, but I am going to use another implementation. I didn't realise quite how populate the wake up feature would be, so I need to get this working very well and spend some more time on it. Coming soon!

Thanks for reporting this - Can you replicate the settings not sticking every time?

Are you using any kind of RAM or memory clearing apps?

If you want a very simple English Recognition solution, there's always the Quick Start app on the Play Store. Thanks for sharing the automagic setup in a previous post :good:

More settings and tweaks will be added to this soon!

Thanks for your post. As I said above, I'm surprised just how much this feature is being used and not just for driving. I'll get some more improvements and yet more tweaks available soon!

There's something not right in the latest release of TalkBack... utter! isn't reliant on TalkBack in anyway, so feel free to disable it (if you can get to it!) without a negative effect.

I'm working on ways to get the two apps to work better together, but I need to contact the developers for this, as when it's turned on, it tries to do everything and I need to be able to tell it to shut up, I'm handling this!

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Thanks for all of your posts folks, appreciated. If I've missed yours or you've still got a problem, please don't hesitate to link to the original question and I'll check it out.

Right, final few bugs and then it's new features time! WHOOP! :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] fixero:
I'm interest app utter,but how to make this app offline,cause when i use this app say "i lost connection network" i setting use ivone voice recognition but same problem...

Anybody help me to fix it.

Sent from Abidzar Al-khayr Izz Ruhama.
[Android Apps and Games] thunderserpent:
Yes this constantly happens. Is there anything I can do to help?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Good afternoon,

I was looking at Ben's comments yesterday and wondering if you still have the problem? Are you using anything like a Ram Expander or maybe some Ram settings on your device?

I used something once called Seeder and that didn't play well with Utter, at least on my device.

I'm assuming besides clearing the cache and app data, that you've also tried a reinstall?

Make it a great day!
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
Suggestion - male/female recognition or voice matching

Basically I had the following idea - have utter! be the personal assistant of two different people, with different languages and commands. Say, me (male) being the primary user with commands and TTS in English and my girlfriend being the occasional secondary user with commands and TTS in Russian or German.

Now I haven't been playing around with it much yet (still having problems getting the offline voice recognition to work) but I seem to remember that you can make a secondary utter! shortcut that can run in a different language (and have separate custom commands and settings?), so that would be the easiest way to implement my idea, but not the coolest ;).

What if it could recognize whether it's me saying the wake up phrase or my girlfriend and set itself up accordingly, maybe with Tasker's help? Either by detecting whether it's a general male or female voice talking or by comparing the spoken command with prerecorded samples of me and her (I suppose that's way easier than the former?). This could also be used to restrict utter! to only obeying commands by its primary user and not just anyone. And even further, to use voice unlock for the android lock screen instead of PIN/Pattern/Password/etc.

Another possibility (a bit less cool but way easier to implement) would be to have it listen for two or more different wake up phrases and change its profile accordingly.

What do you guys think? Is any of this doable or maybe even already possible?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Good afternoon!

Those are great suggestions and I'll speak only what I know...

1. Prerecorded is just not possible per the developers answer to a user comment on the Play Store.

2. I'm thinking (which can be dangerous)..a little humor, but we need to get the translations into different languages up and running. I think once that's done, then there may be some possibilities for other features.

Good ideas and thanks for posting!
[Android Apps and Games] thunderserpent:
Unfortunately I still am. I've tried everything you mentioned, and no I don't use any apps like that. Also, when you select a setting is the tick or cross supposed to toggle or anything, because mine isn't either?
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Forgive me if this has been addressed before but is there a way to normalize utter's speech with media output? I have a pair of Samsung HM6450 BT earphones and whenever I access utter while listening to music, she nearly breaks my eardrums.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Darn it. What ROM and device are you on.

The ticks.. Is a glitch.. If you check something, then exit utter and come back in you should see the check then.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
See this link for comprehensive instructions

Thanks for the suggestions and ideas, they are all good. Problem right now for me is not enough hours in the day and the need to concentrate on some core features and improve them too. Once I get some dev support and have finished the basics, I can look at more stuff like this, which I'd definitely like to include....

Could you make sure start at boot is ticked in the options and utter! is turned on. When you reboot your device, does utter! not start up? You may need to wait up to a minute if you device is busy doing things before Android signals things are ok to happen. Let me know!

It is the same stream yes, but may have been overridden with any previous 'speak louder/softer' commands.

I'll add it to my list to detect the headset and speak only up to a certain limit! We need to look after those ear drums of yours!
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Ha! Yes, please. They're not getting any younger. :p
[Android Apps and Games] thunderserpent:
Yeah you right about the ticks :good:

I have a jflte running jftmo cm10.1 offiicial builds.

No, utter starts up, I can see it running in the background. It is some of the other settings that revert after I boot. For example each time utter is killed and restarts it asks me to select which TTS I wish to use, wake-up-phase is turned off again, the email and SMS signatures revert to default... stuff like that
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
funny thing, the one application I can't get utter to open when I say "open" or 'start' is the gallery. Any idea why this would be?

Robert
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Works for me. I just said open gallery with no problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Black_Fox:
Is your phone in another language that has a different word for gallery?
[Android Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Works for me in german, too!
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Hi Ben, I'm not sure if you saw my posts starting back on page 432 about a possible Tasker bug. I still can't get Utter! to run a task, even with editing the words "run task" to "run profile". The Task will run when I press the play button in Tasker, but Utter! will not run the task. She acknowledges the task has been run though.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Morning! I've linked this in a message and sent to the developer.

As always make it a great day!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
FYI-message acknowledged!
[Android Apps and Games] cool92guy:
i am sorry i need clarification abt this post...what app is that? is there any app which i should try to make utter better? pls guide me... i try search quick start in play store...but i think i didnt find the app u said.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Go to utter in the play store. Scroll down and you see other apps by brandall. Called utter quick launch.... Multi colored icon.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
What is killing utter! ?

Sometimes app can be labelled differently in the launcher, to what they are actually called in the app database. Best to create a new command to launch the app and use 'open gallery' as the custom phrase - See if that works?

Sorry I missed your post. Could you try the following please to narrow down the issue:

1) Disable the external access box in the Tasker preferences

2) Turn Tasker off and exit Tasker.

3) Go back into Tasker and create a simple task that Toasts (flash in Tasker) a word

4) Enable the external access box, turn Tasker on and exit

5) Try executing that Task from utter!

I've been out of the Tasker user experience for a long time now, but I believe there is a logging aspect built in to it, where you can view what is happening? Perhaps that will provide some details of the failure? If there's nothing in the log, it might mean Tasker isn't getting the broadcast for some reason....

Let me know!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Just seen this post, thank you :good: I'll investigate
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I tried this. Still not working. I did however run a command I made about a month ago that runs several functions and that works still.

Utter communicates with tasker but Is failing to find the task somehow with newly created commands? Mystery.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
hmmm... When you say newly created commands, do you mean newly created Tasker tasks or are you referring to a custom command in utter! you are creating to run the task?

If you open Tasker, press menu, more and Run Log. Turn it on at the top and then start utter! from the notification bar requesting the task to run - Do you get any log output?

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] cool92guy:
very nice app...happily using it.

some suggestions

1- not everyone are native english speakers so if i wanna play my language songs, google cant recognice it.. so y dont we have a command like start music which juz start the music, like shuffle play.

2- search meaning in utter is gud. but it pass the task to wolfram alpha. compared with AIVC, AIVC can define things itself. which is more preferable. utter can get meaning from wikipedia or google and say it wen we ask.. utter also can show us the meaning + a word input option in a pop up window ( thanks to standalone project). an input window is to manually write any word that utter cant catch .

3- as for now utter can launch any app or activities... y not add shortcut to this list..

i am suggesting all this after using utter for sometimes.. hope this suggestions are gud for everyone..
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for your suggestions:

1) You can start the recognition in your own language using a custom launcher shortcut. Then hopefully Google will recognise the track name. I can't send instructions such as 'shuffle all' to other music players, I'd have to build my own. PowerAmp does this automatically though after any track requested to play via utter!

2) I've had to agree financial terms with Wolfram Alpha before using their knowledge-base. Will be testing it on here in just a few days I hope!

3) Shortcuts are tricky as they don't differentiate between one that could be used and a clock widget for example. More work to do on this!

If I have more hours in the day, all of the above would have been finished and built in a long time ago!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
1. To the first question-it was both. I could make a task, run it from tasker and it would work.

2. Tried first to "run task-task name" and would get the broadcast error. Also...same thing if I created a custom command (broadcast error)

I utilized the log feature and in doing that "Voila", it began working!!

Created a new task, Created a command in Utter and when I spoke the command everything now seems to be working. (yeah, i'm confused).

Anyway, emailed log to you.

It was a simple task-Using "say" in Tasker and when executed spoke "how are you today".
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Hi Ben, I did exactly as you outlined above and Utter! responds with Task executed but I am getting a "Failed to execute broadcast task" toast from Tasker. I could not however find the log in Tasker that you were referring too, unless you meant the de-bug log? There are two options for de-bugging: to system log or to SD-Card. I'm sending you a copy of the de-bug log I saved to the SD-Card via your Gmail. Thanks Ben!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Can you run your task as a custom command now?

I still can't get to work if I say "run task.... Task name" though
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Hi GLDavis! I had to use the edit words feature in Utter! to change "run task" to "run profile". Google/Utter! still has trouble understanding "run task". I always get "run past" in all of the top visual results.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
So I switched ROMs today and now when I unlock utter is in Interactive Mode. I think it's sweet she's wants to give me all this information, but I don't recall asking for it. How do I turn it off?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello back! So does utter run a custom command linked to tasker without issues?

When you "run profile" are you getting the broadcast error?

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I didn't know we had an interactive mode? Is it speaking what screen you're on... What line, and just about everything?

If so, turn utter off and if it still happens it's an accessibility setting.
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
I haven't set up a custom command linked to Tasker, yet GL. I don't even know how to do that. :laugh: I am at best an intermediate noob with Tasker. I get the broadcast error from Utter! when I say; "Run profile"... "my task name".
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Customization, create command.

When you choose create command a box will come up... Pick tasker task. Then find your task in tasker.

Then it will ask for the command you want use to run the task. It can be whatever you want.

Answer the next 2 questions and you'll be set. It's really easy.

Then exit, tap the utter icon and when prompted speak the command you just made. It should run the task for you now.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Oh, GL, I am such a maroon. When I restored Tasker it was with a backup that included those profiles Ben posted a while back. One of them was an Intetactive Mode. I didn't realize they were there and running. Sorry. :banghead:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Dude, I'm on the floor laughing! Thanks for the chuckle!
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Followed instructions posted above, the first time I tried it, I received a toast saying: "Failed to execute broadcast task". The second and third times I tried, No toast, Utter! said command successful, but the task, still did not run.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Wow. I'm out of ideas. See what Ben comes up with. Darn it!
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
No problem GLDavis! I appreciate your efforts. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] mikewmorgan:
Composers Too

While you're adding artists, albums, and shuffle, can you also add composer? That will be helpful for classical music.

Thanks,

Mike Morgan
[Android Apps and Games] meminiau:
Hi all,

I know that this has been discussed before, but I can't find the fix :confused:

I've just installed this on my brand new HTC One, and I can't get it to shut up lol It wants to tell me everything, and puts squares around sections of stuff in the browser for instance, and proceeds to read it.

I have Talkback turned off. I also have Utter turned off in the Accessibility menu.

Even with Utter turned off completely in the app, it is still talking to me!!!!

Can someone point me in the right direction? I've searched but so far have come up empty handed.

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grrrrr I am going made here.......

I've now uninstalled Utter, and even turned Accessibility off for Tasker, and it still keeps talking!!!!!

I don;t know what to do.... I didn't have an issue at all until I installed Utter.

FYI - It is a HTC One running stock JB 4.1.2

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OK..... I don;t know exactly what I did... but after fiddling and restarting the phone a couple times, I've got the phone to shut up! I AM SOOO RELIEVED!!

I have reactiviated Tasker in the Accessibility menu, and all is still working as it should.

I would like to again use Utter though.. It always worked flawlessly on my Galaxy Nexus and my Sammy Note 2. Can anyone give a hand before I have another stab at installing Utter?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I was looking online but couldn't find anything about a new feature...except maybe CAR MODE? Such a new phone, and few posts, but this popped up.

Maybe...that's it?
[Android Apps and Games] meminiau:
Don't think so. I already had Tasker. I then installed Utter and that's when the phone went all screwy. All I had done was linked apps in Utter and then when leaving Utter the phone wouldn't shut up. I thought I remembered an issue with talkback and a jellybean issue occurring after installing Utter... Maybe I'm wrong...

Sent from my awesome HTC One
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Look at the post below-do you have this maybe in Tasker? Another user this weekend encountered pretty much the same issue.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42133467&postcount=4434
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
Is there any progress on the problem with the settings icons not updating when a setting is changed but instead only after restart? Or is it on the back burner for now?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
For now, it's a known issue. It does have a low priority for now.
[Android Apps and Games] kashortiexda:
working great here
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello!!!

Thank you for confirming!!

Make it a great day!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
This is usually caused by TalkBack turning itself on in the background if you have 'webscripts' enabled in the Accessibility Settings.