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[Android Apps and Games] Jesterfell:
Not sure, but probably. Also, I try every promising app I run across, one of those may have left something behind. Now that I think back, I haven't seen any ads in a long time.

Where I could use Utter he most, and where I tried it first, just about all signals are blocked. There's minimal to no possibility to get online. What first attracted me to Utter was the word "Offline" in the OP! I quickly found out that it did not mean what I thought it did!

As soon as I was outside, I tried again and voice commands were accepted by v. 3.0.2. But v. 3.0.2.9.1B and above still FC.

Even though I have to be online to use Utter, it still has many attractions for me. Thanks for the continuing effort.
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
I just sent you the log now brandall. Please have a look :cowboy:
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I'm confused as to why those versions cause a different result for you, as I'm handling the ads the same way in both.... I shall investigate further!

Can I ask what you expected further from the offline features? Beyond device control, I'm wondering what else I could do? Suggestions welcome!

Thanks for the log :good: You're getting the same error as another Gingerbread user did, where your device is trying to access code that is only meant for Honeycomb and above...

I'm wondering if there's a rouge ROM floating around that's accessing the wrong methods some how. If you open utter! and press 'Send Feedback' in the device info, what does it say your SDK build is?

EDIT - Found the problem! My coding error... Will fix for the next release!

Thanks for the logs provided that helped me solve this :good:

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EDIT - For back page arrivals, the latest utter! test build can be found here
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
thanks for the help! When do u think the next release will come out?
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
About 15 hours from now, if I can stay awake that long!
[Android Apps and Games] Jesterfell:
Hey, brandall!

I'm also confused AND feeling picked-on by my phone. Some glitches seem to happen ONLY to me ;)

Interestingly, version 3.0.2 runs even with no data connection. It won't understand anything ("sorry...lost my data connection..."), but it does run.

I did find at least one other user with the same problem. There may be others, but I skimmed very quickly through the first 300 or so pages, so I could easily have missed them.

However, he is on GB and I am on JB 4.1.2, so I don't know if the problem would be the same.

I'm often in an area where there is no reliable data connection. When I saw the word "offline" in the OP, I mis-interpreted that to mean that Utter would preform ALL it's functions completely offline.

I realize it was probably not a practical hope, given the way things are now. Maybe it was just a case of wishful thinking making me read what I wanted to see, not what was there.
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
How exactly do I set up my phone and Utter so it is offline where appropriate?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Why not just turn on airplane mode? Utter should work as expected then when airplane mode turned off you're back to using data connection.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I'm about to upload a new version, where I may have fixed the force close - it's possibly an Google Ad error and they've released and update which is included.

Short of actually running commands that need an internet connection (!), I'm almost out of ideas! :)

Do you mean how to get the offline working properly? If so, check this post to see if it helps.

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Uploading the latest test build now! I managed to stay awake :D
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.0.2.9.5B up!

Quoting the above release notes for ease! Although it's getting very, very, very, very long...

What's new I hear you cry!?

User Interface

I've given it a bit of a spruce up and changed the ads to the bottom of the layout, so they don't appear just as your about to press a menu item!

Fixes

Fixed - FC Google Ads - credit Jesterfell

Fixed - FC on Gingerbread - credit Pretorian187 & doofy72

Fixed - FC on some notification content - credit GLDavis

Fixed - Don't flush memory when headset connected - credit easiuser

Fixed - Lag & speed of installed apps - credit ME! :angel:

Still more fixes to do before I get it on the Play Store! Wanted to post what I've done for now though!

Thanks in advance for your testing skills and feedback :good:
[Android Apps and Games] guy4jesuschrist:
Thanks for the continuous improvements you're making to utter!, Ben! Great job. I just had an idea that would make things somewhat easier when customizing the exclude list. For those who tend to only want notifications announced for just a few apps amongst a large list of apps, maybe you could add a select all option, so that we can then go through the list and uncheck those apps we want included? :)

Also, I was thinking that it would be cool for those running JB or higher, to have an enhanced/expandable notification, that adds a few utter! settings that can be toggled or something like that. Maybe have it be an option, and even a list of settings to choose from, out of 10 settings (perhaps most accessed or favorites) the user can choose any 3 (or how ever many seem feasible) settings to include in the expandable notification. I'm not sure exactly what settings, but figured I'd mention the idea for brainstorming's sake and see what you might come up with and if others would chime in with related ideas. I hope I clarified my idea well, I know I got kinda wordy. What do you think about it?
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
It's on my list to do - I was being lazy :)

I like the idea, thanks :good: I haven't looked at all at what can be done with the Jelly Bean notifications, but as you said, I'm sure I could squeeze a few settings in there, like 'mute' or toggling shake/wave etc. I'll put it on my list to do!
[Android Apps and Games] Pretorian187:
Ben, I installed the newest release now but it still doesnt work. First it force closes many times and utter doesnt even get to start. Then sometimes it brings up the main screen, says refresh device date then on the top you see the circle spinning. After a couple of seconds it stops spinnin and I get a frozen white screen. It takes quite a while to get back to the home menu, and it freezes for much longer compared to the previous release 4B. I then restarted my phone and now the orange icon remains on top. When I go to the logs in system tuner utter doesnt appear in the killed applications but I can still see the orange utter icon on top so its still running in the background without any functionality.. Strangly enought it also doesnt appear when I filter with running applications. So I have to send you the whole unfiltered log. Sorry for that :D
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Oh dear! Not good.... Not to worry about the unfiltered log, they are pretty easy to search through - appreciate it :good:

I'll check it now

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For back page arrivals, the latest utter! test build can be found here - if you dare!? :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for the log - Unfortunately it doesn't show any specific problem. Remind me, are you running a custom ROM? If so, any chance you could Nandroid then quickly flash something else to see if the ROM is the culprit..? Thanks meter +plenty waiting!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Good morning. Just a thought, have you tried a clean install? If not I would uninstall utter, reboot, then install the latest build. Maybe you have a corrupted file or.... Well who knows, but it might be worth a try?

Thanks for your help as I know it can be frustrating:mad:

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PERMANENT RECOGNITION VS DRIVING MODE

Ben,

Issued command start listening and the toast and icon appear but nothing happens when I say wake up or stop listening.

Issued command enable driving mode and utter responds to wake up with no problem.

Tried changing wake up phrase, but get no response when using the new phrase. Set back to wake up and that works fine.
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
Thanks Ben, I've posted on your thread about offline - to (hopefully) add detail for other hopeless noobs...

Truth is, it's dangerous for people who have stuff-all expertise to be loitering around here:o

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When I'm in aeroplane mode, Utter tells me "there was a speech server error".

1) Uninstall the offline recognition files

where are these?

2) Go to your Android application settings and see if you can Uninstall the updates for the Google Search and Google Voice Search applications.

I understand how to look at, and change general phone settings, but "application settings" specifically???

3) If you can't do the above, go to the Play Store see if you have the option there.

4) Reboot

5) Update Google Search and Google Voice Search from the Play Store

6) Reboot

7) Install English UK offline language files

My language setting is English (Australia) - do I need to change it to UK in order to run offline ??

8) Reboot!

9) Use utter! with a connection

10) Cross your fingers

11) Rub a lucky rabbit's foot

12) Say a prayer

13) Switch to aeroplane mode and give it a try!!
[Android Apps and Games] mdreyfus:
Great app! Problem with read last text message

Downloaded utter! last night and love it so far. My wife has one of those funny names that never works with voice recognition, but utter set up a shortcut for it lickety-split.

Problem: The command "read last text message" returns "Sorry, I don't appear to have any recent message data." Same thing if I type it into the "Run Command" field on the Troubleshooting page. I have a stock Verizon Galaxy Nexus using the standard Messages app. I have Google Voice running, but not for SMS. Happy to help debug with a little direction as to where to look.
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Hi Ben! Just wanted to let you know that in the latest version, when I hit the create launcher shortcut, it does create a shortcut, but it leads you to the home menu of the app rather than a shortcut to start Utter! listening.
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
?? Launcher shortcut is working fine on my S3..

Okay, I admit it, I am stumped.

I want to make a custom command to turn on the torch, but be blowed if I can see how. I assume that it would be an activity, but which one as I can't see anything obvious in the list Utter brings up..
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
That is odd. I did an uninstall, restart and fresh install (I always do with that with the updates.) and it created a shortcut to the home screen on both of my devices. Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. :confused:

Edit: If I delete the shortcut and try to create a new one, it won't create a new one either.
[Android Apps and Games] doofy72:
Hi just to let people know that i have tried 3.0.2.9.5b and still getting force close. I have clean installed rebooted etc. I have sent log to ben. I let you know what happens.

doofy72
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
It doesn't create one for me either.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
B

It doesn't create anything for me. I can set up manually though by long pressing home screen, select shortcut and select utter. I'm using Nova Launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
That's what I had to do too GLDavis.

Edit: I wonder if it has anything to do with Nova's update today?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Maybe, but I doubt it. I do know that Bruce7373 is also a Nova user. Hmmmm

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I tried application Torch first and that didn't work. Then chose activity Torch, and had 2 options... If I try to select either option I get a force close.

Utter's command "toggle torch" works like a champ. Now we have 2 confused!
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Did I hear my name, lol? I was using a double tap gesture for a bit, but I wanted to be able to have access when the home screen wasn't showing. So I set the search button (hard on my phone, soft on my tab) to default to utter (instead of Google Now, which I have very little use for) and that does the trick nicely. :)

Oh, I found out almost by accident that utter works well with my Jabra 620 headphones. I've only been paying partial attention to the BT discussion since I don't use it when driving. I was listening to music and hit that search key by mistake and our girl chimed in right over Annie Lennox, lol. I gave a couple of commands which worked well and then was returned to my playlist. Well done!
[Android Apps and Games] cableghost:
I'm having the same issue. My Jawbone Icon button works to engage Utter!, however, it uses the phone's microphone.
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
I'm using a Jawbone Era. How did you set it up to work with the button?
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
With your headset on, go to utter, turn utter off, then back on. Press the microphone in utter and issue a command to see if it heard thru the headset. You may want to cover the phone mic while doing this.
[Android Apps and Games] LegendsCrazy:
Thanks GLDavis but, I must have misunderstood. Utter! works fine with my Jawbone. I can hear and issue commands through my bluetooth connection. I thought cableghost had set his Jawbone up to have Utter! listen with a press of the button on the Jawbone itself.
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
You had a torch in your application list? Thats one better than me..I couldn't find any thing that even resembled a torch in there.:highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Yessir, but does the toggle torch command work for you?
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
Yes the command does work, but I have trouble getting it to recognize the command..

If I kinda twist my mouth sideways and stick out my tongue while standing on my head with my fingers up my nose, then Google might just return the command correctly. (Well that is what it feels like I have to do anyway :silly: )

I just wanted to change it to something a little more friendly with my accent. :D
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Rolling on the floor with that one.... Thanks! Look at camera activities... Maybe it's there?
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
Nope..nothing even close under there. ..:crying:

Been though the list now so many times I think I have gone cross-eyed.. :eek:

Might sleep on it and take another look later..:)
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Can you replicate this every time?? I can't as usual....

1) If you go to your Android Settings, you should have Applications Manager, or just Apps on some devices. In there you can scroll through you list of installed applications. Click on Google Search and then Google Voice Search and see if you are able to 'uninstall updates' or better still, just uninstall completely. You can then reinstall/reupdate from the Play Store.

You can also say to utter! 'application settings' to get there! :)

7) In the Google Voice Search settings there is an option to download offline speech files - users have reported that downloading and installing the English UK files seems to kickstart something to work? So yes, switch the language to English UK for a short time, when it starts working, hopefully soon afterwards, you can then switch back to English Australia and download the offline files for that too.

Let me know if you need to clarify anything further.

Thanks again for the logs - It's an issue for all Gingerbread devices. My first attempt to fix this failed... I know what the problem is, so that's always a good start! Fix coming later I hope....

Glad you are enjoying the app :) That command doesn't (yet) access your text message data - It listens for new ones to arrive. So, if you send yourself a text, it should work afterwards.

The only issues reported with this function are when Handcent or GoSMS is installed, but I don't think that's the case for you....

:D Ha! Don't forget, you can change the commands to what you like using the Replace Words feature. In the top box put 'I'm afraid of the dark' and in the bottom box 'turn on torch'. Create another one - In the top box 'global warming' and in the bottom 'turn off torch'

You obviously don't have to use my suggestions! But hopefully you'll find a command that works without facial contortions! :D

You may be suffering from this Android Bug, where it hogs the headset button press. If you're rooted, you can freeze the app that is intercepting the headset press and then utter! will appear as an option thereafter...

Launcher Shortcuts.

Thanks for your reports of these not working. It really does seem to be launcher dependent as to if/how it works. The best way is to use the option to create a shortcut/widget from the launcher itself. That way the 'space' the icon will use on the display will be handled better.

Do let me know if that doesn't work for you though!

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Thanks again for all of the bug reports! Good work as always :good:

For back page arrivals, the latest utter! test build can be found here - Force close for Gingerbread at the moment I'm afraid though. I'm on the case!
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Well yesterday yes... But this morning no! Feeling sheepish! Now that I think of it happened after I changed wake up command. Will try to see if I can replicate problem. If so I'll let you know. Sorry for the false alarm.:eek:
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
Quote:

Originally Posted by gbossley View Post

[SNIP]2) Go to your Android application settings and see if you can Uninstall the updates for the Google Search and Google Voice Search applications. I understand how to look at, and change general phone settings, but "application settings" specifically???

7) Install English UK offline language files My language setting is English (Australia) - do I need to change it to UK in order to run offline ??

1) If you go to your Android Settings, you should have Applications Manager, or just Apps on some devices. In there you can scroll through you list of installed applications. Click on Google Search and then Google Voice Search and see if you are able to 'uninstall updates' or better still, just uninstall completely. You can then reinstall/reupdate from the Play Store.

You can also say to utter! 'application settings' to get there!

7) In the Google Voice Search settings there is an option to download offline speech files - users have reported that downloading and installing the English UK files seems to kickstart something to work? So yes, switch the language to English UK for a short time, when it starts working, hopefully soon afterwards, you can then switch back to English Australia and download the offline files for that too.

Let me know if you need to clarify anything further.

Thanks Ben, (it's pretty cool to get answers directly from the app author, thanks for the personal touch). I have tried to follow your instructions, done further research, and concluded that because I'm running Swype, my access to and use of Google Voice is 'excluded' - I have to do some kind of workaround, or stop using Swype. I might have to try an alternate keyboard...

Bottom line - no option to select, or download the offline files. Anywhere.

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Ben, I'm still having fun - this app has such massive potential!

I'm playing with "Listening Mode" - it seems to fail after a couple of uses. Notification is still present, but no response on "Wake up".
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Good morning.....

I've attached some screenshots to help you figure out your speech settings. Of course every ROM/Device will differ, but hopefully this points you in the right direction.

That being said, I've kind of labelled them in order of where you need to go followed by -1, -2,-3, etc.

Once you go through those, you can look at some of the other settings along the way, but at least follow 1 thru 5 and check those settings.

Hopefully?..this will help you out.

Make it a great day!!!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Always good to cross a potential bug off the list! I'm happy! :D

Pleasure on the personal touch :) Running Swype shouldn't make a difference, as it only uses Nuance from the keyboard - It won't overwrite the Android Voice Search Settings. GLDavis posted some screenshots below, but they don't look anything like my device's set-up!

I have to go to the Android Settings, then Language and Input, then Voice Search, then there should be an option for Download Offline Speech Recognition?

For the wake-up-phrase, can you replicate the failing after a couple of uses every time??

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New test build coming in a few moments with the Gingerbread fix
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V3.0.2.9.6B up!

Quoting the above release notes for ease! Although it's getting very, very, very, very, very long...

What's new!?

Not a lot really.... Hopefully, the force close for Gingerbread is now fixed! BIG thanks again to Pretorian187 & doofy72 for their logs which helped me identify the problem.

I've had to change the way I'm handling the headset for all devices, as this was the cause of the problem above. So hopefully you can confirm it's still working ok....?

The good news is I've found some very handy source code for handling headsets of all types on all OS versions, so I'll be getting that built in very soon!

On my to-do list I don't have any more coding changes to make before I get this on the Play Store, so if you could test the pants off this build for me please, I'd be super grateful, as I am always of course :good:

Gingerbread question

The theme I'm using might not be working properly on Gingerbread devices - Does the text in the dialogs show up properly, or is it the same colour as the background?!

Ok, I need a quick nap..........
[Android Apps and Games] Andrev01:
Utter sounds great! I can't wait for polish translation for it :) And please add a possibility to remove this orange notification on notification bar after every command.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello and welcome to the thread. You and others have expressed the same, so it is on the to-do list.
[Android Apps and Games] gbossley:
GL - Thanks Loads, but no. At the last screen, when I select Install Voice Data, my options are German, Spanish, French, Italian!:eek:
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Okay, now that's all I have on mine as well. I never had to download any files as it just always worked for me.

Everything else looks similar to what I have? Under the text-to-speech output, you have Google Text-to-Speech checked? Then you can listen to an example...have you tried that?

If that works, then Utter should work for you.

If not, then hit me back and we'll see what we can do next. By all rights, it should be working???
[Android Apps and Games] Xeropoint:
Custom Wake-up Phrase

Hey brandall,

Loving the app so far, but one thing still isn't working for me. On my Nexus 7 (no root, running the latest official firmware) Utter! does not respond to custom wake-up phrases during permanent recognition mode. (Still responds to "wake-up" though.) I'm kinda new here, so I'm not sure what to do about that, if I can do anything at all. But i'll provide any information you need to get that working. Let me know how I can help.
[Android Apps and Games] GLDavis:
Hello Xeropoint,

I tried the custom wake up phrase and had the same problem which is good to know. We'll post this so Ben can have a look. Nice app isn't it?
[Android Apps and Games] malwarebyte:
using cm 7.2 galaxy mini

1. i can use it from statusbar,but when i want to make scout it says no app can perform this action and also everytime i start app it shows it (only got installed google voice search)

2. FC in middle of tutorial

3. random FC ( 3 times so far )

4. some things are not so visible