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[Android Apps and Games] remidesroques:
Found some Bugs

OK I have been playing with the latest version of utter for a while. Here are some bugs I found. (I try to follow as much as possible the thread but if I mentioned something that was already mentioned...sorry about that)

In permanent recognition (I can't wait that it stays on forever ;) ):

If I play a track, utter will constantly pause and play again the track thinking that it heard the wake up command. Disabling the permanent recognition during music play back might do the trick

In custom Phrases:

If we had a sound effect at the end of the sentence and check the "Start listening" option it crashes and says the something went wrong, the voice recognition is not available...

If we don't have any sound effect, it will work fine

That's all for now!
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
Utter Promo Video

Hi Guys,

When I firsted heard of utter a month ago I was very exited and happy of Ben´s work. As I have the Samsung Galaxy Beam projector Smartphone I wanted to combine utter and the Beam to create the ultimate phone :D It took me a couple of weeks to figure out several things and my special thanks go to GLDavis and Ben that gave me some good tips. Thanks for considering me to help on the carbot commands Ben, in the end I luckily managed myself. But its nice that you replied to my mail even tho you have a lot of work with utter. After testing a lot of functions I saw the potential of utter, so I decided to make a video that shows that great potential of your program! I couldnt believe that I made utter manage to drive my toy car :cowboy: I just uploaded the vid and you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249yS3sNoKs

I love your work ben and I hope this video will make utter more famous :D It deserves much more credit! ..and yeah..goodbye siri :p
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
^^^^^ That's amazing. That's

exactly

who I picture talking to me.
[Android Apps and Games] solarbaby:
Wake-up-Phrase at App Launch

I've stumbled upon a BUG! :eek: Now that I am using Tasker to start and stop Utter what I noticed is Tasker forgets to load up with wake up phrase enabled every time the app is stopped by Tasker previously. I even used the Polite stop with the Utter / Tasker add-on and get the same results. Same thing if you stop Utter from program manager. The only way I can get auto recognition to load up with the app every single time is by stopping Utter from within the Utter app. I'm currently using the same version of Utter that is available in the Play Store.

I'm having a really good time with Tasker integration now and if their is some sort of way to load up Utter through Tasker and force it to use Wake Up Phrase mode please do tell.
[Android Apps and Games] meminiau:
Thanks, I think that is it. Gonna reinstall :D

Sent from my awesome HTC One
[Android Apps and Games] vingar:
Brandal &co, I dont understand this metod.

How is possible wake up direct from italian language?

I select recognition voice, google search and say "ciao".

After...?

Thanks lot for support friends.

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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
When you say "ciao" a screen will come up and it shows you what Google "thinks" you are saying

I have attached a screenshot that shows you what Google thinks I'm saying when I say "chow"..."ciao" is one of the answers.

You can now go to "Settings" in Utter, swipe to the "Advanced" tab and select "Wake-Up-Configuration"

In the box that will appear using the TOP box enter "ciao" (without the quotations) and Google should recognize this then as your "wake up phrase"
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Assistance Required.

Hi folks, need a favour please

Some **** head on Google Play has said in a review that the app is stealing money and suggests users should uninstall it 'within a couple of hours' - It's clearly an attempt to try and stop users installing it for some reason, but there's nothing I can do about this as I can't report comments if they are 'slanderous' or accuse me of being a thief...

If you have 1 minute, could you go to utter! on Google Play (must be on your device not a browser) and order the reviews by most recent - find the one by shamik banerjee (massive twat, if it's even a real profile), click the thumps up/down icon and then click spam.

Need to get rid of it as quick as possible.

Thanks for your help.

I'll be back soon to read/answer posts (thanks for them all), just adding the finishes touches to the latest Play Store bug fix release.

Cheers

Ben
[Android Apps and Games] freak4dell:
Done.
[Android Apps and Games] vingar:
I tried but see only review italian, sorry brandall

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Thank you GLDavis, but I have another problem,

Wake up from italian phrase work, but listen work only with english command.

If I create italian shortcut at launcher, recognize italian WORK WELL!.

If I use wake up, and say "ciao", start recognize but dont understand italian!

I hope understand me..

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[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
I do. Language recognition is not implemented.... Yet,... for other languages. Translation coming soon.
[Android Apps and Games] vingar:
Brandall, I think you must change a bit :) other app recognize italian for wake up work... fix this :) you are a big man :)

I work for my home with command recognition! I cant wait :).

Repeat... with shortcut at home recognition italian work very well, the problem is only with wake up.

If you want send me an apk alpha...and test for you

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[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
You betcha.

Later: Can't find it, Ben. Has it been pulled already?
[Android Apps and Games] :
On the plus side, with the MASSIVE amount of 4-5 star reviews of this app, Mr. banerjee's (yes, it's true - this man has no ****) review will mean squat. I think most people are knowledgeable enough to know that his review is full of s--t.
[Android Apps and Games] meminiau:
I couldn't find the rubbish either.

Sent from my awesome HTC One
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
To all of you that didn't see the comment... Let's just say it was rude and ugly.

Thank you one and all for your support.

EDIT: WHEN YOU GO TO UTTER ON THE PLAYSTORE- SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM AND SELECT ALL REVIEWS. IN THE UPPER LEFT CLICK ON MOST HELPFUL... THEN CHOOSE "NEWEST FIRST". YOU'LL SEE IT ABOUT 10 REVIEWS DOWN OR SO.
[Android Apps and Games] sd0070:
Just rated this 5 stars and marked that asshole as spam as you requested! Ive been using this app for a long time now and love it.

That being said, I just did a clean install of mmuzzy on Gnex and clean installs of tasker and utter, but when I click to link tasker, it says unable to communicate with tasker. I enabled both in accessability, I allowed external access in tasker, I uninstalled both apps and rebooted and tried again...I just cant figure out the problem. Any help? Thanks for the great app!
[Android Apps and Games] solarbaby:
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I believe I had an issue like that. You may have already done this but in this order leaving Tasker installed, I uninstalled Utter rebooted and then re-installed Utter. If I got it backwards which is always likely then I would try the reverse next. G'luck.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for the reports! The stuttering music playback is caused by the Jelly Bean beep I'm having to mute and the loop I'm having to do to fix the bug where Google Voice Search dies after 5 seconds.... If they fix these, it won't be an issue. I am looking at another way of doing this though as it's been a very popular feature.

Good spot on the start listening bug! :good: Investigating....

Love the video and I'm sure it's going to get lots of views. Sorry I didn't have time to make the custom commands for you :(

Thanks for your help on this. I've fixed the issue for the release later today.

I'm having big problems with the music commands and the way different music players are handling them. Still scratching my head over this one, but will add composer to the list!

Thanks for reporting this. Can you confirm the flow you are using please?

Is it something like:

1) Enable utter!

2) Start permanent recognition

^ Is it as simple as that? Could you try adding a wait of 5 seconds between them and see if that makes a difference? If it does, gradually reduce the time until you find the lowest one possible. Let me know if that's not it.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll pop it on my list to do. German and Italian are the first to be translated though, so not too long to wait for full use!

The user updated the comment sufficiently. Still a little mad about it, but hey, sh*t happens, deep breath, head down, back to the code!

As GLDavis said, thanks for your support on this folks, it's really appreciated :good:
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Yes, this is the right order. It's happened several times with me and installing Tasker first is the key (I've never had to reboot, but certainly couldn't hurt).
[Android Apps and Games] sd0070:
This worked, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I've investigated and it's a tricky restriction in Tasker. If the password is all numbers, it defines the field differently and I can't try and match the content.

So, the password needs to contain at least one letter and can't be all numbers.

Thanks again for reporting this :good: - I'm updating the user guide and in-app notes.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Guys, I updated my ROM and flashed a minimal GAPPS which doesn't have the required text-to-speech for offline (and Google Now apparently). What do I need to download from the Store? The link in Settings takes me to an app that's not compatible with my N10.

Edit: nm, I just had to download the offline speech recognition files from system settings. Doh...
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hey Bruce7373,

Funny you should say that...as I like you are relatively new to flashing and I think I've come to this conclusion...which each new update or new ROM comes some tweaking...but more than that Headaches!!!!!!

So my conclusion is this...IF IT AIN'T BROKE...DON'T FIX IT!!

Just my 2 cents since I've run into some issues lately that have caused me problems.

I like to tinker...but gimme a break!
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Please, call me Bruce, we're friends, lol.

You're talking to someone who has massive OCD. ;) I've turned into this major flashoholic. It's a sickness, lol.

Seriously, there's a thread here that has up-to-date GAPPS in several flavors. I wanted to check out the minimal one, which is like 8MB. If it worked, it would be a lot simpler than the normal bloated one. So I had to manually install Google Search, but didn't realize the offline files aren't automatically installed with it.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Bruce....the flashaholic! It is kinda fun though seeing what each one brings.

Have a good one.

P.S. Sending your name into RFA (Rom Flashers Anonymous) ;)
[Android Apps and Games] zolah:
How much battery does the wakeup phrase use?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Which files are those and where can I get them? Only reason I ask is that utter seems to work when connected to the internet, but when I turn data off, it can't seem to execute the commands.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Check your phone's settings / language and input / voice search / download offline files.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Each device due to hardware and ROM are going to be different.

I have an older phone on a custom ROM and I see about 5-10% per hour sitting idle. If I use the wake up phrase then the usage is significantly higher. If we get a Google fix in the near future that may drop quite a bit.

It's been a great feature amongst a lot of users.
[Android Apps and Games] thunderserpent:
The latest beta fixed my problems with settings sticking :)

I have found a few things though:

1) After I reboot wave/shake/speak-to-wake is turned off.

2) When I set the SMS/email signiture to nothing, it will revert to the default after I reboot. If I set it to something else is works fine though.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem that has suddenly arisen.

After I say my first command, sound stops working. Notifications still work. Upon rebooting, sound is functional, until the first command is spoken.

I have tried the following without success.

(1) Cleared cache/data, and uninstalled/reinstalled (a) Google Now, (b) Utter!, and (c) each voice app along with its voice, in turn, in every combination;

(2) Changed the settings of voice engines, custom voices, and Google Now to all of the various combinations; and

(3) Performed the above routine with Google Now, AVX, and SpeakToIt, in turn, with the other TTS apps/voices uninstalled.

Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
You're rooted with CM 10 correct? You have other voice apps installed as well... Did you just recently add any of those?

It sounds like you have a conflict where something is trying to take control and causes this.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
Hi, thanks for your response. Yes, in fact, the problem only manifested after having installed AVX. But I uninstalled it. Is it possible that something troublesome is left over after the uninstall?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Sometimes a few reboots later things can disappear. Remnants can be left and create problems. If you are rooted you could try fixing permissions and see if that clears it.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
Ah, good idea. I'll try it now. Thank you very much.

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[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
Fixing permissions did the trick. Thanks Bud.
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
update question

Yesterday I saw that Utter had an update but I didn't see the notice long enough to read what exactly the update entailed. Can anyone tell me?
[Android Apps and Games] Vuciz:
You could always view the "What's New" tab on the play store.

To answer your question, just Bug Fixes.

Also, if you have problems with the settings, you should contact the dev.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Bug fixes mostly. Notably the run task command for tasker now works.

I saw something about the permanent recognition but didn't catch it all myself. Maybe someone will enlighten us.
[Android Apps and Games] remidesroques:
It's stated that now, the permanent voice recognition should stay on. There is also a new command that brings your phone to the home screen just like you were pushing the home button by saying "go home". The bug that I mentioned where it would crash if you have a special effect at the end of your sentence, it wouldn't start listening if it was checked was fixed as well! You rock Brandal! !
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Thanks! I saw that... Didn't register for some reason. Have a great evening!
[Android Apps and Games] PamelaGirl:
Hello All,

How can I sync my utter profiles/tasks from my handheld to my tablet? This would be super helpful!

T.I.A.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello!

I know others have backed up to the cloud then on your other device you can try restore from cloud, although this does not work consistently across all devices.

You can use export commands. This doesn't save all of your files though either, more your custom commands to utter/user_commands. You can copy this file to your other device in the same directory and import from within utter.

Not a full backup option as of right now is the bottom line.
[Android Apps and Games] PamelaGirl:
Thank you GLDavis!

This was very helpful:)
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Welcome!:cool:
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Hi GLDavis! Have you tried to run a custom command with Tasker since Ben's last update? I'm still not able to get Utter! to run the task I've set up with the instructions you provided.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Yes sir! Have you tried "run task.. Task name"?

EDIT: want to make sure you're running a task that you created, NOT a profile.

What is your task supposed to do?
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Nevermind, I figured it out! :o

I got it to work. I believe it's because the IP for my GTV device is changing, so the Tasker GTV plugin is losing it's connection with my device. I'm going to have to look into putting my Google TV on a static IP, I guess. Thanks GL for your response and of course, thanks to Ben for fixing the bug! Now Utter! can turn my home theater set-up on and off! Awesome!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Glad you got it worked out!:o
[Android Apps and Games] shifattk:
Lovely App

I love this app!

I actually feel that this is better than SVoice.

And I love it every time when it says "Yes Master" xD

Keep up the good work. :good:

Subbed + Thanked
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
Just like to report that after 18 hours with utter permanently listening with no input. The wake up command still worked flawlessly when told to wake up.

Nice one Ben. :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Quiet? Haven't seen this thread this quiet in a long time. Impressive and kudos to Ben!
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
deleting custom phrases

I've been playing around with custom phrases. How do I go about deleting the ones I did wrong? I don't see a 'delete' button or command.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
On the same page where you found Custom Phrases...below is Edit Commands (you'll find them there).:o
[Android Apps and Games] abledan:
thanks. found it.
[Android Apps and Games] HandsomeOne:
Great App Thank You
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks!

Hey folks, so, think I've solved all of the Play Store bugs now, apart from some completely weird and wonderful ones that I may just have to give up on..... Thank you again for all of your pre-release testing here, which made the current release, which contained the most changes, the least buggy so far!

Right, so it's back to focussing on the next version! WHOOP! So much more fun.... :victory:

All the time in the background I'm preparing the app for translation, but the copying and pasting is so mindless that I need to do other things too... The first of those other things is passing variable data to Tasker, to satisfy all of you Power Users.... So, that's first.

Then it's Wolfram Alpha integration. Hopefully in a few days time I'll have the contract signed with them, so I can get it on here for testing!

Scanning the thread, I think all questions have been answered - If I've missed anything, please don't hesitate to repost your issue.

About to type up the Tasker Plugin post now.... back in 30 :cowboy:
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Tasker Plugin

Ok folks, so I need your thoughts please.

For the Tasker Condition Plugin, I can pass certain parts (or all) of the voice data to Tasker in order to update existing variable content. Let me give you a few usage examples:

* Set my display brightness to [10] percent

* Turn [on] my [bedroom] lights

* [Open] the garage

* Set the variable [temperature] to [20]

You get the gist.

So, I need your feedback as to how you intend to use the plugin. From your usage cases, I'll need to work out how to either get utter! to resolve which part of the voice data you want sent to Tasker, or find a way to parametise (that doesn't appear to be a word, but it is now!) the relevant content.

Please do throw your ideas and needs at me and from there I hope a solution will become apparent. If you can suggest how your usage could be parametised (that is definitely the right word!) it would certainly help me understand the scope of what I need to create.

Ok, it's over to you folks! I'll catch up on the replies tomorrow, as I've got to get my head down and get some other stuff complete.

Thanks in advance as always! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] dj_ivocha:
While your examples are probably gonna get used often and might be worth to include them, there are so many possible uses for Tasker that it's probably not possible for utter to handle everything. I think the basic functionality that everyone can use is to manipulate variables and start/stop tasks. So as long as utter understands as many variations as possible of [RUN TASK XXX] or [SET VARIABLE X TO Y], I think the power users among us will be able to do everything they need. So basically it'd be nice to be understood regardless of whether you say the above, or START TASK X or ACTIVATE TASK X or DELETE VARIABLE or CLEAR VARIABLE etc.

What will certainly improve things a lot (as long as it's possible) and maybe make utter seem a bit more like an actual natural language processor would be its ability to integrate task and variable names in its recognition patterns. So for example if you have a Tasker task named "turn wifi off", you could just say it and utter will understand you and activate the task. If you can do the same for variables then it would be even more powerful. Can Tasker plugins start tasks btw? And get info on existing tasks' names and maybe other info?

So ideally utter would get all current tasks' and global variables' info from Tasker at startup and update its recognition database accordingly so you could skip the "RUN TASK X AND SET VARIABLE Y TO Z" every time you want something from Tasker and only fall back to that if the more advanced recognition fails.

Btw, it's parameterize or parametrize :)

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On a Tasker-unrelated note, I have a suggestion re: translation. It might be a good idea to separate the translation files and sort them by importance.

For example, there could be the "Basic/Required Commands" data - basically just the voice commands utter recognizes and maybe even not all of them, but just the... standard(?) ones - so if utter understands "call John on his mobile" and "phone John on his mobile" and "ring John on his mobile", included in that "Basic" file would be just "call John on his mobile".

Then you could have an "Advanced Recognition" file - where basically all the command aliases are included (so "phone..." and "ring..." from the above example).

Then there'd be the "UI" file where all the settings and buttons and options in the utter app itself.

And finally there'd be the help files.

This way users can go on and translate the basic file first so they can get the basic functionality up and running quickly and only then continue on the rest until utter is fully translated. While that probably won't make much of a difference for the "big" languages like German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese etc, it might make life quite a bit easier for users from smaller countries where otherwise it could take months or years until someone does a complete translation, like Bulgarian, Estonian, Icelandic etc.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
This is all good and I am still digesting the uses and how the (input) might apply to tasks that I have in Tasker.

I'm thinking in terms of simplicity first, because you don't have to be rooted to use tasker and most..like me don't understand or use its full functionality anyway.

For those that are tasker guru's, this should be great.
[Android Apps and Games] Sunemol:
Nice app

I wait till final and Danish translate + talk danish to my phone :) gj Brandall

Paying well ;)
[Android Apps and Games] solarbaby:
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I am interested in stacking commands. Hence "Wake-Up: 'How may I help you?' Play sleep music and then wake me up in 8 hours. 'Okay' ".

Additionally I want to be able to optionally replace Utter's wake up response with sound files.

Thank You Much!

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[Android Apps and Games] regor99:
Tasker plugin

Ok I'll throw my hat in.This is the feature I've wanted since utter started nearly 18 months ago.

I believe that Tasker is THE user programming tool. Utter does not have to reinvent the wheel.

The simplest answer is that Utter passes ALL of the command as a Tasker variable and let Tasker do the work not utter. If utter does not recognise the phrase it passes the whole phrase as a Tasker variable $UTTER. Simple and powerful.