[Q] Jelly Bean Voice Search Woes ? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Hello,
does anyone have issues with the voice search not working as advertised on the keynote?
For example, asking "Who's is the Prime Minister of Japan" just returns a web search result and nothing else. No talking back.
It seems as though it's been disabled, can anyone confirm this?
Edit: Perhaps it's because I'm outside of the US? I'd love to hear back from users with Jellybean outside and inside the US.

Google Now/Search definitely talks back. I just tried that right now. Have you enabled all the features in keyboard/typing and search settings? Try a restart also after
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leshake said:
Google Now/Search definitely talks back. I just tried that right now. Have you enabled all the features in keyboard/typing and search settings? Try a restart also after
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Must be because you are in Us.
Here in new Zealand I can confirm no speech, have yet to try via USA based proxy.
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Works for me in .au if I ask it the exact same question as in the first post "Who's is the Prime Minister of Japan"

ellimistx99 said:
Hello,
does anyone have issues with the voice search not working as advertised on the keynote?
For example, asking "Who's is the Prime Minister of Japan" just returns a web search result and nothing else. No talking back.
It seems as though it's been disabled, can anyone confirm this?
Edit: Perhaps it's because I'm outside of the US? I'd love to hear back from users with Jellybean outside and inside the US.
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I have been using JB in india and for me voice search worked perfectly and also tried the search what u did even for that it gave the correct answer hope it helps

Can u PM me the voice search apk from JB ?

rajarshi10 said:
Can u PM me the voice search apk from JB ?
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I can but i m not very familiar with the file name if u do tell me i ll extract and give u

Alright so I can confirm. Once I went home I was able to get it to talk back and respond to some basic questions, such as "weather" and "who is prime minister of x".
Anyone have any other cool questions you asked that Google responds to? For example, currency conversion doesn't respond back to me, just shows me search.
Although I can never get the mapping questions to show up. "Map of gas stations near me", or "Map of closest 7 eleven"
Also, my Google Now shows no results.

Confirmed working over here in Australia. Pretty cool actually. Now excuse me I've got a bus full of iPhoneys to show off to!

I can't get it to talk, it just shows me some googlelinks here in germany :/

123hiten said:
I can but i m not very familiar with the file name if u do tell me i ll extract and give u
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Its voicetalk or voice search. Something to do with voice. Please PM me asap.

rajarshi10 said:
Its voicetalk or voice search. Something to do with voice. Please PM me asap.
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Uh...download the ROM and extract it yourself if you're so anxious?

gubshi said:
I can't get it to talk, it just shows me some googlelinks here in germany :/
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For me it didn't work at my job. I'm assuming because of proxies or something? Not entirely sure. Try using 3G and try restarting your phone once too..

ellimistx99 said:
For me it didn't work at my job. I'm assuming because of proxies or something? Not entirely sure. Try using 3G and try restarting your phone once too..
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exactly my thoughts. didn't do the trick though.

Jubakuba said:
Uh...download the ROM and extract it yourself if you're so anxious?
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Which rom? Give me the link

rajarshi10 said:
Its voicetalk or voice search. Something to do with voice. Please PM me asap.
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It's VoiceSearch.apk and GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk
I'd appreciate it too.

when I change every language-setting to english it works.

Seems a bit hit or miss.
Ask who the prime minister of japan is and i get voice and images etc. Ask who it is for england and i get a google search.
Also, sending texts, settings alarms etc doesn't work

Evostance said:
Seems a bit hit or miss.
Ask who the prime minister of japan is and i get voice and images etc. Ask who it is for england and i get a google search.
Also, sending texts, settings alarms etc doesn't work
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For England if you ask, "Who is the Prime Minister of UK" it works.
For SMS I say, "Send text to Dad I'm going to be late today" works for me.
For Alarm, I say, "Set and Alarm for 430 am tomorrow" also works.
Fun think to try, "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything" you get, "42"

Other things I've noticed:
"Where are all the petrol stations near me" works. Whereas, "where are all the gas stations near me" didn't. Then slowly, over time, as I used it more they started to work.
It seems like something is going on in the servers at ol google.

Related

Useful app... offline voicecommands

Hi,
I think there is a very useful app needed in all smartphone...and specially in the fantastic galaxy s2: the offline voicecommands.
People, like me, that have not the possibility to get always connected to the net, need the offline voicecommands like the mororola smartphones. We just need a porting of that app as the vivaldi 4season team did, but working for all the roms and in particular that app have to work...
Who is the dev that can do this for the "disconnected" community? He will help the people that need to call someone whilst is driving a car... No accidents trying to do a call whilst driving car, no money spent in a special contract to be always connected.
We need a hero!
girsa said:
Hi,
I think there is a very useful app needed in all smartphone...and specially in the fantastic galaxy s2: the offline voicecommands.
People, like me, that have not the possibility to get always connected to the net, need the offline voicecommands like the mororola smartphones. We just need a porting of that app as the vivaldi 4season team did, but working for all the roms and in particular that app have to work...
Who is the dev that can do this for the "disconnected" community? He will help the people that need to call someone whilst is driving a car... No accidents trying to do a call whilst driving car, no money spent in a special contract to be always connected.
We need a hero!
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Dont we have that already with the Built in Samsung Voice actions powered by Vlingo which also has a drive/car mode
Vlimgo requires Internet and to be honest is not greatest when dialing contacts especially if they are not typical English names.
Just do what I do as soon as I install rom, delete vlingo and put original android voicedialer.apk in system (note: not voice search) app from nexus s gingerbread or cyanogen rom. Works offline and much better for contacts recognition. Responds fine to bluetooth dial as well.
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Idan73 said:
Vlimgo requires Internet and to be honest is not greatest when dialing contacts especially if they are not typical English names.
Just do what I do as soon as I install rom, delete vlingo and put original android voicedialer.apk in system (note: not voice search) app from nexus s gingerbread or cyanogen rom. Works offline and much better for contacts recognition. Responds fine to bluetooth dial as well.
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Could you post that apk please?
Here you go!
Remember put this in system/app folder with root explorer (do not install as regular apk) and remember to delete vlingo voice to go apk from there cause it will clash on bluetooth dial.
Istituto tris app multilanguage?
Is this only for dialing or sms too?
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It's name is voice dialer! Ask me again if this is for dictating sms!
Or are you asking if you can start text message with this?
There's voice actions for that or vlingo or whatever but they all need to be connected to the net.
With this you can basically start any app installed on the phone with command open * (open MESSAGING or open OPERA MOBILE) or dial contacts on the PHONE or command redial.
You can not say 'send text to "contact name"'. If you want deeper than that then use online ones I mentioned.
Iono if it's multilanguage? I why don't you try it then tell us? What I do know is that I have plenty non English contacts and it dials them correctly even though it repeats them weird with English phonetics. It is able to learn as well so if it's confused between 2 contacts, manually selecting correct one, will not prompt again with same pronunciation. I have had few names that I had to gradually train like that going from English phonetics to native tongue pronunciation and now it's perfect.
I save data with titanium so don't have to train it again between flashing.
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So arrogant
Idan73 said:
It's name is voice dialer! Ask me again if this is for dictating sms!
Or are you asking if you can start text message with this?
There's voice actions for that or vlingo or whatever but they all need to be connected to the net.
With this you can basically start any app installed on the phone with command open * (open MESSAGING or open OPERA MOBILE) or dial contacts on the PHONE or command redial.
You can not say 'send text to "contact name"'. If you want deeper than that then use online ones I mentioned.
Iono if it's multilanguage? I why don't you try it then tell us? What I do know is that I have plenty non English contacts and it dials them correctly even though it repeats them weird with English phonetics. It is able to learn as well so if it's confused between 2 contacts, manually selecting correct one, will not prompt again with same pronunciation. I have had few names that I had to gradually train like that going from English phonetics to native tongue pronunciation and now it's perfect.
I save data with titanium so don't have to train it again between flashing.
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Calm down. If you insist, so i ask you again: is it for dictating sms?
A forum need people able to talk gently with others and if they can and want, to answer to the question, and not to be arrogant.
If you are nervous go to sleep.
So Dumb
So Dumb to not understand plain English.
Lol! Yeah all we need in forum are lazy people that post request in wrong section and won't do **** for themselves even when the help and explanation is being offered several times, but are easy to offend!
This was a waste of fingers. I'm off to sleep as you suggested and you wait for another soft spoken fellow or a gall.
But I'll throw you another bone. None of the solutions to date offer offline dictation on any smartphone platform and you ponder...
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girsa said:
Hi,
I think there is a very useful app needed in all smartphone...and specially in the fantastic galaxy s2: the offline voicecommands.
People, like me, that have not the possibility to get always connected to the net, need the offline voicecommands like the mororola smartphones. We just need a porting of that app as the vivaldi 4season team did, but working for all the roms and in particular that app have to work...
Who is the dev that can do this for the "disconnected" community? He will help the people that need to call someone whilst is driving a car... No accidents trying to do a call whilst driving car, no money spent in a special contract to be always connected.
We need a hero!
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if you just try to read and research you can make it work with any rom you want,i already have it working in the rom i am using which is hyperdroid v5.2 and also tried it with checkrom and batista70 3.0 and it works
Idan73 said:
Lol! Yeah all we need in forum are lazy people that post request in wrong section and won't do **** for themselves even when the help and explanation is being offered several times, but are easy to offend!
This was a waste of fingers. I'm off to sleep as you suggested and you wait for another soft spoken fellow or a gall.
But I'll throw you another bone. None of the solutions to date offer offline dictation on any smartphone platform and you ponder...
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Stupid as usual. Nothing better to expect from you and useless people thinking like you. Enjoy you and your friends with the bones by yourself.
Poor you...find a girl and be less nervous, and maybe a mother so serious you will be polite.
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Lolz! And this is how needy but polite people become not so polite but still lazy.
Point being: instead of finding ways of being offended maybe you should have read more carefully and see I and others had tried to help you throughout this topic. You have 4 posts and look what they are.
Anyways ill stop now and leave your thread alone.
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read and research and you can make it work.got it working on on hyperdroid v5.2
Idan73 said:
Lolz! And this is how needy but polite people become not so polite but still lazy.
Point being: instead of finding ways of being offended maybe you should have read more carefully and see I and others had tried to help you throughout this topic. You have 4 posts and look what they are.
Anyways ill stop now and leave your thread alone.
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Hallelujah!

[Q] Google Now Voice search not talking back

nvm figured it out
stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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What did you do? I keep getting webpage search results
stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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These are the absolute *worst* sorts of forum posts.
GodEater said:
These are the absolute *worst* sorts of forum posts.
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Tell me about it. **** he could at least tell what he did to get it working
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GodEater said:
These are the absolute *worst* sorts of forum posts.
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Can I just add to this? Who is that stupid OP?
I had the same issue.
Settings
Languages & Input
Language
English (United States)
It appears that if you have selected anything else (I had UK) then it doesn't work!
Didn't work
I tried changing the language to english (US) and it still only results in web pages, and does not speak replies.
siehead said:
I tried changing the language to english (US) and it still only results in web pages, and does not speak replies.
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Same here. But it speaks simple stuff like weather
stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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Mr. Ass, can you at least be helpful, you can cry for help, but not give any?
Update: Oh and people, I have the solution, unlike Mr. Ass, I shall share it, it's a firewall issue, here's the link :victory:
Androider4Life said:
Same here. But it speaks simple stuff like weather
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Mine doesn't speak anything to me, including weather. Doesn't matter if I'm on the mobile network or Wi-Fi.
I tried everything suggested with no luck.
EDIT: I R STUPID, VOL WAS OFF
arehouti respecting
stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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He just switched language in the Google Voice settings in Google Now.
It works ONLY with English (US).
all other languages give search results as usual google search.
i can confirm that i have english (us) and always speak in my settings. i still never hear a result spoken back to me....what gives?
Baffled...
Anybody get it working yet?
Anybody get it working yet?
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This is what I did to get voice search results to talk back:
1. Open Google Now and go to settings
2. Go to "Privacy and Accounts"
3. Make sure "Search on google.com" is checked
4. Check if your audio volume is up!
ok i have been through both threads my voice is still not working for me. my search on google.com is checked, im not blocked by my wifi at home, i have gone to the settings and tried to Vol+ everything is up. i have made sure that my phone's settings is all checked off with English US. im using the Google speech, my speech output is always on speak. and i still dont get talk back
Possible fix
total_noob_1 said:
ok i have been through both threads my voice is still not working for me. my search on google.com is checked, im not blocked by my wifi at home, i have gone to the settings and tried to Vol+ everything is up. i have made sure that my phone's settings is all checked off with English US. im using the Google speech, my speech output is always on speak. and i still dont get talk back
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This might have already been fixed but I also had this problem with Google now's voice response not working. I somehow got it fixed by:
going into phone settings
select language & input
select text-to-speech output
select Pico TTS as preferred engine
When I got back into my google now app the speech was working.
Can also go to settings
Select accessibility
Select text to speech output
Select Pico TTS
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Why im not having pico tts ?
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stereoprologic said:
nvm figured it out
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Best OP ever.
Genuine1880 said:
This might have already been fixed but I also had this problem with Google now's voice response not working. I somehow got it fixed by:
going into phone settings
select language & input
select text-to-speech output
select Pico TTS as preferred engine
When I got back into my google now app the speech was working.
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+1. That fixed mine as well. Thanks

[Q] Galaxy Note II - Google Voise Search

Hey all, Since the purcahse of my Infnity Tab, I have been waiting to get an android "phone" to replace my old iphone 3gs. So grabbed the Note II yesterday ! Love it ! So far so good, with the exception of one small issue. S voice fine for what it is, but I watched many videos on Google Voice where it will actually "speak back" (a la Siri or "S" voice). I can not for the life of me get google search to speak an answer back to me.
I have check volume for "media" - I can hear S voice so I should be able to hear Google's voice
I have English (US) selected as language of choice.
I have voice response set to "Always"
What might I be missing. I have searched and watched a few videos, I am stumped.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried generic questions like "what's the weather gonna be like today?" and if so, what happens when you ask these questions.
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Razzore said:
Hey all, Since the purcahse of my Infnity Tab, I have been waiting to get an android "phone" to replace my old iphone 3gs. So grabbed the Note II yesterday ! Love it ! So far so good, with the exception of one small issue. S voice fine for what it is, but I watched many videos on Google Voice where it will actually "speak back" (a la Siri or "S" voice). I can not for the life of me get google search to speak an answer back to me.
I have check volume for "media" - I can hear S voice so I should be able to hear Google's voice
I have English (US) selected as language of choice.
I have voice response set to "Always"
What might I be missing. I have searched and watched a few videos, I am stumped.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.
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Where do you live? If you purchased your phone outside of the United States that's why it's not working.
I got my NOTE 2 in Canada and had the same problem. Refer to my post for the answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005263
Jamolah said:
Where do you live? If you purchased your phone outside of the United States that's why it's not working.
I got my NOTE 2 in Canada and had the same problem. Refer to my post for the answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005263
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Yup, bought it in Canada, where I live.
I will read your post... I hope there is a fix/workaround coming eventually....
That was great !!!
Found the app to fix the issue - "Set Locale" - , thanks Jamolah.
Razzore said:
Yup, bought it in Canada, where I live.
I will read your post... I hope there is a fix/workaround coming eventually....
That was great !!!
Found the app to fix the issue - "Set Locale" - , thanks Jamolah.
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I also hope google fixes this issue so we don't need to use a third party app.
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Razzore said:
Hey all, Since the purcahse of my Infnity Tab, I have been waiting to get an android "phone" to replace my old iphone 3gs. So grabbed the Note II yesterday ! Love it ! So far so good, with the exception of one small issue. S voice fine for what it is, but I watched many videos on Google Voice where it will actually "speak back" (a la Siri or "S" voice). I can not for the life of me get google search to speak an answer back to me.
I have check volume for "media" - I can hear S voice so I should be able to hear Google's voice
I have English (US) selected as language of choice.
I have voice response set to "Always"
What might I be missing. I have searched and watched a few videos, I am stumped.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm kinda confuse here... You do know Google Voice and Google Now are two different products, right?
Google Voice: voice.google.com
Google Now: the voice recognition (assistant) feature introduced on JB, like Siri on steroids...
As for the question... Open Google Search, check on Settings\Voice\Speech Output
Peace!
Sergio Espinoza said:
I'm kinda confuse here... You do know Google Voice and Google Now are two different products, right?
Google Voice: voice.google.com
Google Now: the voice recognition (assistant) feature introduced on JB, like Siri on steroids...
As for the question... Open Google Search, check on Settings\Voice\Speech Output
Peace!
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But no matter what if you want Google NOW to to talkback you have to use the local/language app. Because for some reason none US phones don't allow you to change the phone language to English (US).
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[Q] Google now No speech output , no sound

After finally getting the upgrade to JB through kies, Google now works very well except it doesn't have any speech responses like it should. When asking google now the time on my one x, it says the time out loud. The galaxy s3 only displays it.
I've tried
-increasing all of the volumes on the phone
-reboot
-going into google now settings, voice --> Speech output: always speak
-going into google now settings, voice--> Language: English US
But no luck...anyone know how to resolve this?
Thanks
patrik335 said:
After finally getting the upgrade to JB through kies, Google now works very well except it doesn't have any speech responses like it should. When asking google now the time on my one x, it says the time out loud. The galaxy s3 only displays it.
I've tried
-increasing all of the volumes on the phone
-reboot
-going into google now settings, voice --> Speech output: always speak
-going into google now settings, voice--> Language: English US
But no luck...anyone know how to resolve this?
Thanks
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Use MoreLocale2 from market to change location to US english, this worked for me, this is not my idea and am relaying from aother post on subject but i can't remember who posted.
EDIT:Found it BCSC has a thread about this about 25 threads back.
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ragzdincs said:
Use MoreLocale2 from market to change location to US english, this worked for me, this is not my idea and am relaying from aother post on subject but i can't remember who posted.
EDIT:Found it BCSC has a thread about this about 25 threads back.
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I tried searching for other threads to make sure this wasn't a repost but guess I did a poor job. I'll try that now and report back. Thank you!
patrik335 said:
I tried searching for other threads to make sure this wasn't a repost but guess I did a poor job. I'll try that now and report back. Thank you!
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This worked for both my S3 and my One X+
Thank you!

Hangouts now available for nexus 7 in Google Play Store!

As the title says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk
slo2lah said:
As the title says.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk
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In my opinion one of the most stupid app form Google. No way to change online status or see who's online are you kidding me?? Only log-out. Old talk was lot better.
ashik992 said:
In my opinion one of the most stupid app form Google. No way to change online status or see who's online are you kidding me?? Only log-out. Old talk was lot better.
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Uhm, maybe you are right. But what I see is that Google is shifting the talk to the whatsapp/line/bbm -alike messaging. To think of it, I'd say it's not a bad move though as there's proven track record from the mentioned communication app even though the lack of "see who's online" option.
slo2lah said:
Uhm, maybe you are right. But what I see is that Google is shifting the talk to the whatsapp/line/bbm -alike messaging. To think of it, I'd say it's not a bad move though as there's proven track record from the mentioned communication app even though the lack of "see who's online" option.
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Maybe works for others but not for me.
First time it's quite confused but after it's very intuitive :good:

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