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V2.2.5.3.4A up!

Hey folks, what’s new I hear you cry in excitement! No..? Oh....

Google Play Music

You’ll need to log in from the Linked Applications tab. Privacy policy in the making, but of course your account details are encrypted and stored safely. Edit - on the device only.

Say ‘Stream +track name’

Now, you won’t believe this, but Google does not support searching artist+track or artist+album…. So much for the Search Giant!? :confused:

You can try it yourself on your pc when you open Google Music – type in an artist and track name in the search box and you’ll get no results…. Absolutely ridiculous.

Also, it doesn’t support album streaming….?

So, until they up their game, you are limited to searching for just a track, or an artist, or an album and utter! will pick one of these to play. I can’t ‘queue up’ songs either, as this would involve implementing my own music player and it’s not on the to-do list right now…

‘Google Play +track name’ is an alternative command. Thanks for your suggestions on these.

When Google release the official API, let’s hope they’ve corrected these issues.

Custom Phrases

WHOOP! In the all new Settings Tab, you can enter questions and answers to your hearts content and make utter! as personalised and as knowledgeable as you like!

An option to create these on mass in an XML file and import them will be out in the next release, along with a way to have these detected and spoken in your native language.

The dialog box used to create them is a bit boring, but it’ll do for now…

Custom Intro

WHOOP! Now you can configure utter! to say whatever you like prior to the voice recognition starting. Or leave the field blank if you want nothing at all. NOTE – even if there is no intro, I still ‘warm-up’ the voice engine, so there may be a slight delay on first use in a while – if you’re using IVONA, you may need to put the kettle on…..

Again, an option to have the intro in your own language is in the making.

Custom Language (sort of!)

As a first attempt to make utter! a little more multi-lingual, there is an option in the Settings Tab to set your native language.

When you compose your tweets, texts, emails, notes (not voice notes) and Facebook status’, utter! will switch to this language for detection.

NOTE – It is ONLY the body and subject that will be in your language, once this is complete, the recognition will switch back to English – So when utter! asks if you’d like to proof read it, you need to answer in English.

For a Facebook status, when utter! asks if you want it read back to you, the voice engine will also be switched to the language selection. It’s not yet complete as ‘I heard’ and ‘do you want to send it’ will be read with the ‘foreign’ voice, so it sounds a little silly….

Zip

Not very exciting this one, just a test for now please, but it will be used for coming commands. First say ‘screenshot’ and once it’s done, say ‘zip the screenshot’. The zip file should be created in utter/Zip_Files/

Let me know!

MD5Sum

After doing the above, say ‘generate the M D 5 Sum of the zip’ and you'll receive the output in a notification. I should probably copy this to the clipboard too for comparison. Added to the list to do!

This will be more useful when a particular zip can be referenced by voice.

Movie/Film Search

‘Search for the film/movie +title’

If you have the IMDb app installed, it will display the results in that – Otherwise it will go to their website.

Foreground Notification Hack

In the settings tab there is an option to disable the permanent notification. I’m using a bit of trickery to allow utter! to remain as a foreground application, despite there being no icon displayed.

You’ll have to let me know if Android starts to murder utter! mid-calculation with this workaround.

Force Google Now Voice

For Jelly Bean only, you can select (in the Settings Tab) whether to force the use of the Google Now voice, or stick to your default.

Bugs

IVONA – in general

Every time I say the word ‘yes’, the Google Servers are deciding that the word ‘no’ should also be returned…………………. Quite how they think that this kind of ‘opposite word association’ would be useful in a speech algorithm is beyond me... If you’re suffering from the same thing, I’ll have a fix worked out in the next release.

The Google Music integration is not official, so as good as the library may be, it's bound to have a few glitches...

Finally

If you're new to the thread, you might want to take a look at my previous long-winded release notes here, which detail the remote text control.

I'll probably catch the bugs on this release and then get it uploaded to the Play Store, before get deeper into translation etc.

Right, nap time.

Thanks again for all of the recent feedback and ideas - and of course your testing skills! :good: