[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I folks, thanks again for all of the feedback and discussions - really useful to help me know which direction to take and in what order. Sorry for the slow response, I've a busy week this week.

This may well have to be the way forward, I'd be disappointed if this was the only option though. Users who have already paid for the premium Wolfram Alpha app may also curse a little more too..

I've told Wolfram Alpha about my 'predicament' and the representative from there is going to see what he can do for me - So fingers crossed he comes back with a solution that supports utter! through Alpha/Beta, so I have a chance to get the app deriving a revenue before they start charging me!

You are very polite :) I've had other users ask about this and have utter! say 'is there anything else I can help you with?' etc. It comes down to user preference again - some will want the request executed and the app to do that and nothing else - others will enjoy a more human interaction.

The only option is to build in the 'interaction level' which has been planned before I made the first test build. I best get on with it!

Thanks for reporting this - I've had another report the same. It seems some devices have such a vigorous vibrator, that the shake feature is activated by it! I can't detect when the device is vibrating, so there's nothing I can do about this I'm afraid...

utter! will cancel any speech or action if the device is 'off-hook', so on a call, but it appears this doesn't include 'phone ringing'. I'll see if I can find an option for that - although it will mess with the coming 'read caller ID - accept - decline call' that's arriving to test soon...

I've cut down the discussion that went on about simple v.s. complex to just the above.

My current plan (open to discussion and opinion of course) is to make utter! immediately usable, out of the box so to speak. There will then be 'settings' and 'advanced settings' - the settings won't baffle or scare any non technical users - the advanced settings will be as technical as you can get.

Sound like a plan?

You'd have to have a play with the online version to be able to answer that, the uses are too long to list. It gives answers to questions, not suggestions as does a search engine. What it can do is incredible on almost any subject and it's only getting better. I don't believe having this resource at the touch of a button is a 'gimmick', I believe it's essential, if the responses can be structured correctly.

I think you may have misunderstood what I said before about this - I have to select a company to provide the speech results and there isn't a huge selection. There is currently no provider that offers this offline. Offline recognition can be built in separately, but the only option out there is hopeless.

I really hope Google will push out offline support as they've demonstrated in Jelly Bean typing to the whole Android Platform - I'm almost certain that no other company will be spending more money, or dedicating more resource to their speech recognition currently, than Google. If this proves not to be the case, I can easily switch providers - If anyone can suggest a better option, please do let me know!! :D

Ah, I see what you mean. I can, but it will not always appear at the top of the results as a direct translation. It's the same for weather and simple calculation requests - sometimes the answer is there, sometimes it's not. I've posted about this on Stackoverflow.com to see if anyone can help 'force' the results to always be there.

Thanks for reporting this - I need to add an option to increase or decrease the matching algorithm limit for individual users - some will need high matching due to their accent, some will always get good results returned and need this to be set to low - which is the case for you.

Coming soon!!

Gotta dash - sorry for rushed responses! Thanks again to all :good: