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[Android Apps and Games] ChloeGeek:
I love what I have seen of this app so far. Especially the mic always on mode. I have downloaded so many 'personal assistant' apps in the past and they have always left me extremely disappointed, and the lack of an always on mode or conversation mode always annoyed me as I often end up with a tablet at my desk plugged in, so battery life isn't a concern, but leaning over to tap the mic button every few seconds is a pain when I am working.

Although if you were to use such a mode it would be great if you needed to address the device before it would take a command, or at least have the option for that as when people are talking utter may pick up on bits of conversations and then do random things by accident.

Anyway, just my two cents worth. I am very eager to test and try this one out. My devices that I own are listed at the bottom of this post, and I would say I can help, but all I can really do is testing I guess.

Galaxy Nexus on 3 (Android 4.0.2)

Acer Iconia A501 (Android 3.2 May be upgrading to 4.0 Soon)

Acer Aspire One (Android x86 version 3.2 upgrading to 4.0 Soon)

Plus a few others laying about the place

I would totally throw a thanks at you, but I'm still a n00b!
[Android Apps and Games] nunjabusiness:
"Mom, can you tell me the best place for fresh sushi?"

:p
[Android Apps and Games] Neet:
Subscribed!

Wait begins :-)
[Android Apps and Games] thomasb94:
Are you thinking about making a profile by voice, or running a task?
[Android Apps and Games] RoboJoe:
I, myself, would rather invoke tasks via voice commands.

Swyped from my Droid Bionic, unless I was in landscape, in which case I Swiftkeyed the hell out of it.
[Android Apps and Games] niwaywood:
subscribed :) cant wait for beta!!!
[Android Apps and Games] ryanjoehere:
when will this neat app been released for trial?
[Android Apps and Games] meo:
Idee for future use

i am playing with Llama - Llama is a Location Aware Mobile App (without gps) - see market. (It Does something like tasker do it)

When i go in my car and drive a special street, llama starts bluetooth, and then my handy go's to my car speking system (speaking recorgnizing parrot system).

I don't need to do anything. I can deal with voice. This goes very good.

(When i am at home it starts wifi and samba for android or myphonexporer)

But it will amazing to speak to phone and it does something else.

Your application will be good as the recogniziing system is good.

The best voice recognizing system for me, is over the years - dragon naturelly speaking they have a android keyboard.

I tryed many systems - from windows, windows mobile and android:

But when you have errors more then 2 % it is to bad to work with it.

If your application is good it will be a nice feature for the android car radio (in later versions - see http://www.parrot.com/de/produkte/auto-freisprechanlagen/parrot-asteroid) -

The core of your system will be the recognizing system. !!

So iam very intresting in testing your applikation.
[Android Apps and Games] joshaw:
I've done a little refining to the logo's I created the other day. This time, I have included 2 colours, as I dont know what the main colour will be in the UI, I suspect it will either be green or blue :)

See attachments, and feel free to contact me if you wish :)

Josh
[Android Apps and Games] asoep1:
when this is released will we have the ability to actually hold a conversation
[Android Apps and Games] ataraxy:
If I understand it correctly, this app allows me to record my own voice and assign a command to it? Am I correct?

This will be great for us Asians, for we do not speak with the native English accent. Apps like siri are not very useful for us..

+1 subscribe
[Android Apps and Games] Oyoyewii:
The most promising voice app ive deen, subscribing.
[Android Apps and Games] floridatank:
<<<< Would definitely for an app that even works as good as it does now. Would buy the beta wait for the updates as they come in to the final project.
[Android Apps and Games] asoep1:
Apple can't do that its ilegal
[Android Apps and Games] CodeMonkey:
Really impressed with the video demo.

Just wanted to pickup on a couple of previous poster's ideas..

Being able to listen for a "magic word" would be fantastic for use in-car.

It would be great if Utter could be triggered into a "magic word" mode via Tasker through Tasker's third party app integration - http://tasker.dinglisch.net/plugins.html

Really looking forward to test driving this bad boy..
[Android Apps and Games] mistermentality:
They have a patent on voice search though according to the foss patents blog. This means they can sue companies implementing that idea and if I recall correctly is being used in an apple vs htc case along with apples text completion patent.

Dave
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
No need to apologise! Thanks for your feedback, that's all I need to know. I have been running gestures for a long time too and they seemingly make no difference for me either. Hope everyone else reports the same...
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I'd like to know where you got the 'scribbled' icons too please!
[Android Apps and Games] mahootzki:
Yeah baby!!

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Sent from Brooklyn NY using a Black Iced Galaxy Nexus!
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
I'm using Hoolm's Freehand CirclesMod theme for the CM9/AOKP theme engine, which includes the colored icons for a few system apps and whatnot. The other icons are from ThaIcon's Tha Sketch icon pack, also available through the Tha Icon Ultimate app.
[Android Apps and Games] garfnodie:
Another thing I forgot to mention, I have the full paid version of tasker installed. I've had tasker for a while now, but when I tap the tasker tab in utter, it always asks me if I want to install the free beta of tasker and doesn't realize that I have the full version installed. Do I have to have the beta version installed, or is it possible to get utter to recognize that I have the full version installed already?
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
I want to say that utter requires the beta version of Tasker in order to be able to interact appropriately. Just install the beta on top of what you have and you should be good.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
I concur - the beta has additional functionality that enables (n)utter! to communicate with Tasker.

EDIT: For those that missed it - the ShakeToWake test is in this post
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Kickstarter video - Your advice please...

Hello again, need your advice please folks..

For the Kickstarter, I need to make another video, similar to the current YouTube one, but much shorter and more concise - about 3 minutes.

So, for the next 10 days or so, this will be my focus, getting the features coded that I want to showcase.

I'd appreciate any advice of what you suggest I should demonstrate, so I can get it quickly coded so it works on my device ready for the video... Now I've built in the Tasker back-door, it means I can also use any of my Tasker scripts. I don't consider that a 'fake' - I consider it what utter! will be able to do once I have the Java knowledge/support to build any Tasker functions directly into utter! I have to showcase what I want it to do after-all - even if it can't currently do it... That's what the Kickstarter is all about, surely? Opinions on that please??

I have to be mindful that viewers are naturally going to compare it to Siri and the other Android voice apps out there... Also, I NEED them to desperately want to see this app made to its full potential...

I can pretty much do anything, so please do throw your suggestions out there!

Thanks in advance..
[Android Apps and Games] Drifternz:
Ok shake to wake works well..

I can only see two drawbacks.

First..the phone has to be woken up to at least the lock screen for it to work..not a biggie, but it does mean that you can't just shake the phone and say set an alarm while it is still in your pocket..Mind you shaking your hand in your pocket is bound to get people looking at you funny anyway and there is probably a slight chance you would go blind in the process..

Now the most important one..

I used to have a simple shake profile on my phone from when I first started playing with tasker.It was't much as it just played a notification sound when shook left/right.

I took it off in the end because it would go of when I least expected it..like when I put the phone in my pocket or on the table when it was still awake...sometimes just walking was enough to set it off. I can just imagine your pants saying something like welcome to utter..as you sit down into a chair.

Sent from my Galaxy SII
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
I think Issue One and Issue Two actually play off each other to improve things.

If your device has to be woken to the lockscreen (or beyond) in order for the shake gesture to trigger, there hopefully shouldn't be much risk of it randomly triggering (in your pocket or elsewhere).
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Tis true... But having your trousers talk would be an amusing bug!
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
Showing off the way that Utter can/will be able to integrate with other apps installed on the user's device should go a long way to separate it from the other "Voice Assistant" applications that seem to be effectively trapped in their own sandbox. Even if it has to be hardcoded or backdoored at this point, being able to watch spoken commands trigger actions outside of Utter's UI would be quite impressive.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Agreed, thanks. Without some seriously unauthorised hacking or the quick cooperation of some other app developers, my options are limited though... Perhaps I should email a few quick smart! Gotta be worth a shot...

Application suggestions needed!
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
So my phone generally lasts about 8 hours of battery life but since I installed tasker is has last 5 hours and since I installed the newest shake too activate today it went from 97 percent Battery to powering down in about 2 hours.

Don't know if you are able to change anything to make it less battery drain or what..
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
For apps I sugest you email any social media apps facebook, twiter, ect.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
hmmm... this really shouldn't be happening. Did you create any of your own tasks, or import any others that could be looping?

Does anyone know of the best application to monitor in detail how much battery power an application or process uses? I know there is the built in ICS battery usage, but not sure how accurate it is...

Can definitely do G+, Facebook and Twitter as the code is already built in. Email is pretty simple too. Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
Yeah, that shakewake profile isn't having that much of an impact on my device. I've been off-charge for four hours and have dropped to 75%, but I've been using my phone a lot (just did a full-wipe ROM upgrade this morning, lots of things to get set back up).

I like BetterBatteryStats for analyzing wakelocks, and I like the historical monitor function of SystemPanel for other usage information.
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
The only other profile I had bfor the shakewas a thing that when my head phones were pluged it it would launce my music. But y would the shake profile take another few hours off the battery...
[Android Apps and Games] GTurn:
Is your phone rooted?

Do you have a custom kernel and/or ROM?

Have you ever calibrated your battery?
[Android Apps and Games] GTurn:
Sorry if this has been brought up before but when I ask for the weather outside it says the temperature in centigrade. Is there a way to change it to fahrenheit? I am in USA.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
This has been a popular request, so I'll integrate in the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
It really shouldn't - neither should the headphone profile have made any difference either. Something's not right...

What does your battery usage show as the cause?

Settings/Power/Battery use

^ Just in case...
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
It says that the andrid system is using like 70 percent of my batter
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
I am rooted but no custom kernels or roms and I don't think I've ever calibrated it... I don't think I would know how!
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks codesplice

Do you have SystemPanel installed by any chance?

I would suggest going into Tasker and turning it off. See if your battery improves then. Neither Tasker or the shaketowake profile should cause anywhere near that much battery drain...

If you want, I can have a glance at the headphone profile, to make sure that's ok - In Tasker, go to preferences, then UI and make sure beginner mode isn't ticked. Then long press on the the headphone profile name and select export - Description to clipboard, then paste here!

We'll go from there...
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
Profile: HeadsetPlugged (4)

State: Headset Plugged [ Type:Any ]

Enter: Anon (2)

A1: Load App [ App:Music Data: Exclude From Recent Apps:Off ]

Exit: Anon (3)

A1: Go Home [ Page:0 ]
[Android Apps and Games] rmiles7721:
Badass Battery Monitor. Not having any problems myself as far as battery. I got about eight hours today before I had to swap batteries. I usually get 10-11 hours so that's a little bit below normal for me but I had quite a bit of heavy usage at work today.

Shake to wake works with my screen off as well.

Galaxy Nexus CDMA on VZW running CNA 2.0RC1 with Leankernel 3.70exp3 (just flashed EXP3 I was using 3.7.0 stable which might explain the higher battery usage today.)
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Nothing wrong with that! Have a run with Tasker turned off - and then perhaps uninstall and reinstall it and see if it is the problem, or a coincidence...?

Never heard of that app - I'll check it out, thanks.

Is that just when your device is on charge?
[Android Apps and Games] rmiles7721:
Now that you mention it I've checked and yes that's only when it's on charge. Oh well.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
That's a good thing really... Otherwise I assume the cpu would never power down. I need to read some more of the documentation, but it's never particularly exciting...!
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
So I uninstaled it and reinstaled it last night! And so far nothing seems to be wrong. Don't knowwhat could of happend but hopefullly its done now. Ill let you know thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Number R09:
Many thanks for your hard work thus far, brandall. It's been very exciting to see this app develop. Keep up the great work!

Question for you good sir: Have you given any consideration to Llama? It's similar to Tasker or Locale. Would it be possible for utter! to work with Llama or Locale, as it will with Tasker? Or would that depend on those developers making adjustments on their end? I'd like to see Llama work with utter! but I wouldn't have a clue as to the scope of work implied.

An aside, many more thanks for the Tasker guides and links, I may eventually get up this mountain named Tasker.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Hi Number R09, I'll pop Llama on the list to check out, the list is getting very long already though... Tasker has a huge amount of developer integration available, so it is likely to remain my first choice... Do keep climbing the Tasker mountain, it's worth it when you get there!
[Android Apps and Games] storm11:
just checked out the youtube video , amazing stuff :D
[Android Apps and Games] Number R09:
Thanks for having a look at Llama. My question was more "Hey, i wonder if Llama and Locale will work because they are similar to Tasker," rather than "Hey brandall, make Llama work too man!"

For some reason the Llama Intents don't translate to Tasker Intents, so I am missing only one (fairly important) profile in Tasker now. So I'll keep plugging along as time allows. I should have Tasker sorted by the time utter! is out of Beta and into V2.0, lol. So take your time. Please.

So far (n)utter! works as intended. Awesome work, congratulations on the progress.
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
I believe Tasker and Locale are a lot more similar to each other than Llama. Llama seems to do some of the same things but it is not as extensible as the others.
[Android Apps and Games] mcampbellsmith:
Llama can handle Locale plugins
[Android Apps and Games] codesplice:
Then it should work fine! I will admit I only used Llama briefly on my fiance's gs2.
[Android Apps and Games] Thordim:
Device: HTC EVO

ROM: MIUI.us 4.0.4-2.5.25 ICS

Kernel: Mason-v0.14-ics

Recovery: TWRP1.1

Latest version with tasker integration seems to work.

RECOG - no issues

WEATHER - no issues but it would be nice to be able to switch between F and C :)

TASKER - when executing a task it would be helpful to have an alert flash of the task name. Some tasks I have do not have a visual and it would be handy for verification and testing. seems to handle my spelling a task.

WIFI/BLUETOOTH - both work if i give command

android system turn on wifi thanks

they both hang on interaction mode

android system

android system turn on wifi

just sits there until i hit the STFU(LOL) button

Keep up the good work
[Android Apps and Games] Cptnodegard:
I'm currently working on my own voice assistant now, Nelly. Difference being that Nelly isn't an app, she's a set of Tasker profiles and tasks. By using Tasker's Get Voice feature I can essentially make a voice assistant configured 100% for me. Right now mine can do some fairly peculiar things, like turn off my computer monitors as part as a task triggered by mentioning the word "night", such as "good night".

Seems like this app is essentially the consumer version of that, based around the same concept of configuring it to do what an individual needs. That's great! Ironically INOVA also powers Nelly, specifically INOVA's Amy.

Anyways, keeping it simple with specific, easy-to-recognize keywords is a good choice I think. I have a debug task that flashes an alert with what Get Voice thinks I'm saying that I use when adding new features to Nelly, and the more complicated it is the more difficult it is to get triggers going correctly. The other voice assistants out there seem to focus on making it smarter in terms of recognizing complex sentences to do simple tasks instead of the other way around. Good to see someone take the other route

OFC the initial reason to make Nelly was to make fun of Siri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBlI27w1-8
[Android Apps and Games] Blurrix:
Reply

Haha thanks. Sorry thought you had to ask to be in the Beta considering it's in Alpha at the moment. Thanks, will keep updating!

That's a great idea. Will you be able to implement multiple voice commands to one function? e.g "cooked chicken" or "execute task" to activate silent mode. Take your time and don't rush we can be patient. I'd rather wait for a proper framework then you being rushed into a unfinished/buggy one.

Keeps up the good work Brandall! Sorry for the late reply had a very busy week and haven't had time to run tests.
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thank you thank you :)

Thank you thank you :)

I'm actually not configuring utter! as a plugin to Tasker, it works on the external access that the Tasker dev has built in. It's a very simple model, but very effective an indepth. Consequently, I don't have a locale style plugin, that I could replicate to use with Llama. I will definitely take a look at it at some point though - It has a fair few downloads, so no doubt would be an appreciated feature.

It's been too popular a request not to include it :)

Agreed - I will confirm which task has executed and also, I've got to add in the listener for when/if a task completes. Depending on the length of the task I may announce that Task X has completed successfully at the end.

Could you elaborate on 'sits there' please? Can you replicate every time??

I started utter! back in the Windows mobile days using registry hacks to change how voice search (I think that was what it was called?) executed commands. I built almost all of the features you are seeing in (n)utter! now in Tasker first, just to plan out the logic and what I'd need to do. I have soooo many voice tasks that I need to convert to Java. So yes, utter! is exactly what you're creating, but in Java - Porting your Tasker set-up straight into an apk is on the Tasker dev's list of things to do... Will be great when that happens...

Whenever you have time to provide feedback it will be appreciated :)

About to post V2.0.2... Facebook integration has arrived... :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
V2.0.2A up!

Ok folks, this release is a bit weird, as it doesn't involve any voice commands!! There is method in my madness though...

I've spent the last three days in a world where only I, immense rage and the Android-Facebook-sdk exist... :mad: There doesn't seem too much demand for the kind of interaction with Facebook that utter! needs = an interaction that involves no pretty Facebook overlays and button pressing and scrolling lists of friends to share a selection with etc etc...

So, finally I managed to strip out all of the unwanted stuff and apart from initially logging into Facebook and confirming that you will allow utter! permission to post on your behalf, no UI appears...

There are a minefield of errors that can occur, so to keep this release simple, the status needs to be completed by entering text - When I catch the bugs that occur for that, I'll put the voice logic back in...

Before/when you test this, I'd really appreciate if you'd note down the following for me and post the information in any bug reports:

I have the Facebook Android application installed - YES/NO

The Facebook Android application is logged in - YES/NO

Facebook.com in my default browser is logged in - YES/NO

The text in the FacebookTab showed the token as - VALID/INVALID

This was supposed to be a one hour job for the Kickstarter video, but doing it 'properly' open a large can of error worms... again...

Twitter next...

Anyway, a few quick questions I'd appreciate your input on please:

When updating a status or making a tweet, there will obviously need to be some kind of confirmation of what is about to be posted, to make sure it's not absolute gibberish or something accidentally obscene!

What would you expect utter! to do?

Repeat back the status by voice and ask if that's right?

Then give the option to reply:

'yes it is, please post it' - (for example)

'No, edit mode' - which brings up a text panel you can manually adjust

'No, repeat' - listens again.

^ will that suffice?

'No, edit mode Facebook' - would be great to open the Facebook app with the text there ready to post, but at the moment, not possible...

To revoke permissions for utter! to post to Facebook you'll need to use the full browser version - There will be a drop-down-menu by the side of the post that has the option to delete the post and remove permissions.

I get a 'page does not exist error' when clicking on the 'via utter!' in the post..

Ok, I'll stop waffling!

Thanks in advance for your testing.

MASSIVE thanks to meadowsjared again for helping me get around the UI thread issues!
[Android Apps and Games] shawn13165:
Gave it a try and yes to every question with invalid token. Entered status and it wouldn't post. Didn't show any confirmation either. Didn't see where to grant (n) utter permission to facebook either. Will continue to play around

now I try and enter a status and it f/c utter
[Android Apps and Games] brandall:
Thanks for letting me know - To confirm - you entered the status you wished to post in the edit text field, then pressed the update status button, but nothing happened? No message below where it says 'Access Token is INVALID' and no 'progress spinner' to show it was doing something?

I assume you have a data connection? I forgot to add checks for that! Oops!
[Android Apps and Games] eisenbathb:
Hey brandall! So in this most recent version it has been force closing no mater what I'm trying to do with facebook and evryonce in awhile when I just hit an about button or stfu button! Just thoght I should let you know.