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Evo has started reading incoming texts aloud

Hey kids. At lunch today, my phone started reading incoming texts aloud. I can't seem to find the setting to turn this off. How do i get this turned off?
Secondly, what could have auto-updated or self-enabled to cause this to happen?? I haven't updated anything save for Google Maps today.
Thanks for any help guys.
P.S. Running CM7.

What texting app are you using?

The one built-in to CM7.
Also, i just tried installing SVOX, to improve the voice quality. Couldn't get it set as the default TTS engine, so i removed Pico TTS with TitaniumBackup and now every time i hit the text-to-speech settings "com.android.settings" FC's

SilverStone641 said:
The one built-in to CM7.
Also, i just tried installing SVOX, to improve the voice quality. Couldn't get it set as the default TTS engine, so i removed Pico TTS with TitaniumBackup and now every time i hit the text-to-speech settings "com.android.settings" FC's
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Try installing handcent from the market. Only texting app I use, a lot better in my opinion.
Also it fc's because it needs the Pico TTS for the settings, so if you have the backup, restore it from tb, or download and install from the market.

I can't do handcent again. I also can't find the Pico TTS in the market or on google. I tried the three or four 1.6 versions i could find. None of them were valid.
Now, i can't use the SVOX app cause its not set to default and i can't go into settings to change it(not that i could before) because my stupid ass removed Pico TTS. Any tips for a moron?
EDIT: And the best part? My phone is STILL reading my texts aloud to anyone that cares to listen. Where is it getting the TTS engine from???

SilverStone641 said:
I can't do handcent again. I also can't find the Pico TTS in the market or on google. I tried the three or four 1.6 versions i could find. None of them were valid.
Now, i can't use the SVOX app cause its not set to default and i can't go into settings to change it(not that i could before) because my stupid ass removed Pico TTS. Any tips for a moron?
EDIT: And the best part? My phone is STILL reading my texts aloud to anyone that cares to listen. Where is it getting the TTS engine from???
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Hmm weird. Try this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19699565/PicoTts.apk Pico TTS apk from my cm7 rom.

teh roxxorz said:
Hmm weird. Try this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19699565/PicoTts.apk Pico TTS apk from my cm7 rom.
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This fixed all my problems! Pico is installed, settings work again, i was able to switch over to SVOX.
Also, i found out that Cluzee (which i forgot i had installed) was the cause of all my troubles. Apparently it starts reading texts automatically upon install.
Thanks again for all your help!

SilverStone641 said:
This fixed all my problems! Pico is installed, settings work again, i was able to switch over to SVOX.
Also, i found out that Cluzee (which i forgot i had installed) was the cause of all my troubles. Apparently it starts reading texts automatically upon install.
Thanks again for all your help!
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Well I'm glad I could help. That sounds like a nuisance of an app.

teh roxxorz said:
Well I'm glad I could help. That sounds like a nuisance of an app.
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Yep and here i was thinking i was being clever installing a viable Siri alternative. ^_^

Hopefully the texts weren't embarrassing or racy and you were by yourself if they were!

Nick N said:
Hopefully the texts weren't embarrassing or racy and you were by yourself if they were!
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Funny you should say that. I was texting with an EMT friend of mine and she had just helped a guy married to a mannequin. During this string of texts, she said to me "Well, at least you know she swallows" And THAT was the text my phone decided to read whilst walking through the IT department of my company.
good times!

Google voice broke after root?

Hey all
just got a Google nexus 7 UK and have really enjoyed using it. I have been using Google voice quite a bit but decided to unlock and root it the other day. After reinstalling Swype Google voice no longer responds when I say "Google",I have to push the Mic icon.
I'm not sure wether it was Swype that caused this, the unlock our root,I did search for a solution but found nothing. Google voice is still selected as an input method on keyboards/input as well as Swype.
I have uninstalled Swype reinstalled It. Had voice as my only input ran out of ideas.currently on 4.1.1. Didn't know where to place this thread as I'm not sure where the fault lies
Thanks in advance

stevey88 said:
Hey all
just got a Google nexus 7 UK and have really enjoyed using it. I have been using Google voice quite a bit but decided to unlock and root it the other day. After reinstalling Swype Google voice no longer responds when I say "Google",I have to push the Mic icon.
I'm not sure wether it was Swype that caused this, the unlock our root,I did search for a solution but found nothing. Google voice is still selected as an input method on keyboards/input as well as Swype.
I have uninstalled Swype reinstalled It. Had voice as my only input ran out of ideas.currently on 4.1.1. Didn't know where to place this thread as I'm not sure where the fault lies
Thanks in advance
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Go to Google Now -> Settings -> Voice, is Hotword detection checked?

thracemerin said:
Go to Google Now -> Settings -> Voice, is Hotword detection checked?
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Thank you for your reply. Don't seem to have this option anymore although I do remember having it before any ideas on how to get it back?
Regards

stevey88 said:
Thank you for your reply. Don't seem to have this option anymore although I do remember having it before any ideas on how to get it back?
Regards
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Hmm got it working. It was because it was in English UK rather than English US
Thanks and sorry for time wasting

[Q] Google Now Hotword Detection Not Working - RESOLVED

It used to be that when I opened Google Now, the search bar would say "Say 'Google' to Search". But now that option has gone away. I checked my settings and hotword detection is on, so it should be working. I have tried just saying "google" but that didn't work. I tried reverting back to an older verion of the google searchapp, but that didn't solve the problem. I'm running CM10.1 Jan 25 Nightly. It was working a week ago when I was still running CM10.1, so it may just be that something about the newer versions of CM10.1 aren't working. I've tried reinstalling the app from the play store, but that didn't fix it either, and I'm out of ideas.

a.child said:
It used to be that when I opened Google Now, the search bar would say "Say 'Google' to Search". But now that option has gone away. I checked my settings and hotword detection is on, so it should be working. I have tried just saying "google" but that didn't work. I tried reverting back to an older verion of the google searchapp, but that didn't solve the problem. I'm running CM10.1 Jan 25 Nightly. It was working a week ago when I was still running CM10.1, so it may just be that something about the newer versions of CM10.1 aren't working. I've tried reinstalling the app from the play store, but that didn't fix it either, and I'm out of ideas.
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is speech recognition in general working for you?

korgmotif said:
is speech recognition in general working for you?
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Yes, if I press the mic button, it picks up everything I say just fine.

What was done to fix this? I am having the same issue.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

CAYCE_VII said:
What was done to fix this? I am having the same issue.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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The issue for me was using the voice notify app. I contacted the developer and this is what I got
"I was able to reproduce the issue and have narrowed
it down to the Accessibility feedback type for VN being set to 'spoken'. With
that, it's kind of obvious that Google Now is designed not to listen for
"Google" when an accessibility service might be speaking.
I tried to work around it by setting the feedback type to generic and only
setting it to spoken while VN speaks, but it prevented VN from speaking at all.
That said, I don't believe there is anything I can do. Probably for the best
since it's usually not a good idea to circumvent design."
So if you're not using voice notify, i'm guessing it's some other accessibility app that's screwing it up. It's very annoying.

I think the hotword also only works if your language is set to English (US). My phone is set to English (UK) and "Google" doesn't work.

on my Nexus 7 the hotword detection has never worked and I cannot figure it out.

Not working for me currently, not sure why.

Set the language to english US. After setting this, for me it's working

Travel_Mate said:
Set the language to english US. After setting this, for me it's working
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I already have that setting.

Not using CM right this second, but I had this problem today. One of the keyboard/input options was "Google voice typing". When I turned that OFF, Hotword detection started working again. Just an idea.

I'm on 4.2.2 CM10.1 on S2 (i9100).
It worked like a charm, but few days back I've noticed, that despite the fact that I have the feature turned on, I am using US English, my voice recognition works perfect, it doesn't work.
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Android settings
-> Language & Input -> Selection notification: Off is what helped me to solve the problem

Re-check it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

I had this issue as well.
In order to make it work again:
1. Turn on Google voice typing in the keyboard setting
2. go to Google Now setting and then Voice
3. Set the language to English... and choose english (US)
You should be getting hotword recognition now.

I had this same issue and this is what I did to fix it:
In Google Now go to
Settings>Voice>Download offline speech recognition>under ALL tab select English (US)
Enjoy your Hotword detection once again! :good:

Cygnusis-X1 said:
I had this same issue and this is what I did to fix it:
In Google Now go to
Settings>Voice>Download offline speech recognition>under ALL tab select English (US)
Enjoy your Hotword detection once again! :good:
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This worked for me. Thanks.

Deenybird said:
This worked for me. Thanks.
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No problem, anytime.

Cygnusis-X1 said:
I had this same issue and this is what I did to fix it:
In Google Now go to
Settings>Voice>Download offline speech recognition>under ALL tab select English (US)
Enjoy your Hotword detection once again! :good:
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Also worked for me after trying about four *other* suggestions. Thank you!

shemantis said:
Also worked for me after trying about four *other* suggestions. Thank you!
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No problem. Now tell Google to do a barrel roll.

I've tried everything that's mentioned in this thread but Google Now still doesn't work by saying 'Google' I have to keep pressing the mic. Any other solution?

Voice in the gallery and the browser?

I have a problem concerning some voice which appearce in the browser and the gallery. When im in the browser and I press something the voice tells me what I have pressed, and in the gallery when, for example, I multiselect pictures in tells me my action. Driving mode is disabled, TalkBack- deleted, I searched everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone knows how can I turn this stupid voice off, because it is driving me crazy...

Voice in Browser
derWolf_ said:
I have a problem concerning some voice which appearce in the browser and the gallery. When im in the browser and I press something the voice tells me what I have pressed, and in the gallery when, for example, I multiselect pictures in tells me my action. Driving mode is disabled, TalkBack- deleted, I searched everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone knows how can I turn this stupid voice off, because it is driving me crazy...
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By chance are you using Lightflow. That's what was causing that same thing on my phone.

Yes, I do. I should remove it then?

Voice in Browser - Lightflow
derWolf_ said:
Yes, I do. I should remove it then?
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That's what I did and it went away.

Yes, now it is fine. Although I liked the program. Is there a way in which I can leave it without the phone talking to me?

I am getting the same issue but I am not using lightflow - anyone else have any ideas as this driving me up the wall!!

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derWolf_ said:
Yes, now it is fine. Although I liked the program. Is there a way in which I can leave it without the phone talking to me?
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Unfortunately not that I found. Sorry. I too like it, but had to delete it.

I found the issue. Similar to the other issues, the problem is that my phone is paired with my pebble watch. It looks like the accessibility options are causing this issue.
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I've found a solution!
Everytime you activate something like lightflow or other apps (like pebble pairing and so on) talkback gets "half" active. I deleted talkback and both pre-installed text-to-speech engines. now everything work fine. But I don't know if other apps that use text-to-speech are affected. I don't use any.
In a german android forum a found a same thread for the Galaxy SIII so it seems it's a Samsung or Google related bug (on Android 4.1.x and above). On my S2 with 4.0.3 nothing like that happend. Maybe I can test it with the 4.1.2 firmware in a few days.

Headphones SVOICE Launch strange issue

Hi all, not sure if this is in the right place, apologies moderators if so
I have problem on my Note 3 - so I am now intrigued and enthusiastic about getting to know and getting the most out of S-Voice - but mainly with the headphones in a hands free fashion.
However when the phone is in my pocket and off and i long press the control button on the headphones to supposedly launch S-Voice or Google Now... i get absolutely nothing.... so i take the phone out of my pocket and turn on the screen... unlock it... and i see a prompt "complete action using S-voice OR Google Search" but only for a split second and the prompt dissappears without me being able to even come close to making a selection and always happens that way.....
So im ending up with... nothing.. no control.. no apps launched.. ever... just a teasingly close to choice thats taken away from me.
Whats the deal? anyone know?
Many thanks
Liam

Try disabling Google's Voice Search (Now) in settings->apps>google now.
This should make svoice the default automatically.
If you need Google Now and don't want it disabled I don't know how I can help. I can't replicate the issue here.

Skander1998 said:
Try disabling Google's Voice Search (Now) in settings->apps>google now.
This should make svoice the default automatically.
If you need Google Now and don't want it disabled I don't know how I can help. I can't replicate the issue here.
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Many thanks for reply, I see what you mean by setting it to default.... But you are right, I do want google now voice search enabled so that's not an option (unless doing this sets the default then when voice search is re enabled it remember my preference??)
How is your svoice setup skander1988? Would you be able to screenshot for me?

fletchy88 said:
Many thanks for reply, I see what you mean by setting it to default.... But you are right, I do want google now voice search enabled so that's not an option (unless doing this sets the default then when voice search is re enabled it remember my preference??)
How is your svoice setup skander1988? Would you be able to screenshot for me?
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I believe re-enabling google now will reset the defaults again.
There is nothing to setup though, I'm using the S5 SVoice on my Note 3 with Google Now enabled and it automatically uses SVoice for me.
EDIT: I just reconfirmed, it automatically opens SVoice for me by default without any additional configuration
EDIT2: My friend's Note 3 shows the same behaviour as yours.
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I'm intrigued.

Skander1998 said:
I believe re-enabling google now will reset the defaults again.
There is nothing to setup though, I'm using the S5 SVoice on my Note 3 with Google Now enabled and it automatically uses SVoice for me.
EDIT: I just reconfirmed, it automatically opens SVoice for me by default without any additional configuration
EDIT2: My friend's Note 3 shows the same behaviour as yours.
^
I'm intrigued.
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Too right.... I'm intrigued too! Or maybe annoyed is the word! Again your configuration Skander1988?

Skander1998 said:
I believe re-enabling google now will reset the defaults again.
There is nothing to setup though, I'm using the S5 SVoice on my Note 3 with Google Now enabled and it automatically uses SVoice for me.
EDIT: I just reconfirmed, it automatically opens SVoice for me by default without any additional configuration
EDIT2: My friend's Note 3 shows the same behaviour as yours.
^
I'm intrigued.
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Skander1988 - what's your rom note 3 (personal s5 build?) All about? How did you get s5 touch wiz?

fletchy88 said:
Skander1988 - what's your rom note 3 (personal s5 build?) All about? How did you get s5 touch wiz?
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I use the S5 port on rom central (can't link to rom central here) - I customised to my own needs.
It's basically the S5's Firmware made compatible with the Note 3 with the SPen features readded.