I can't use Google voice typing, it always uses s voice or the Mic button does nothing if I disable s voice. Anyone have the same?
Yep. Same problem.
I downloaded Google Keyboard and Google Handwriting. Fixes the problem. The only functionality lost is the auto switch to S-Pen from traditional keyboard.
Here's a WORKAROUND - That actually works!
So I have been going crazy with this - My Note is an AT&T and I have been experimenting since it came out to get Google Voice Typing working again - I would have no problem with the way they integrated S-Voice into the voice typing from the Samsung keyboard except for one minor problem - It SUCKS SO BAD IT ISN"T EVEN WORTH A MINUTE OF YOUR TIME. I mean its the most inaccurate Voice recognition ever. Probably because it's not even developed in an English speaking country. But whatever. Here is the workaround:
When You want to voice type and have the Samsung Keyboard loaded, pull down the notification shade and choose: "Select Keyboard" Before doing anything else choose: "Setup Input Methods" in blue at bottom of the dialog. In here, make sure Google Voice Typing is selected, and alternately unselect Samsung Voice Input - you could keep it but why? It's not like it works in any usable way - Unselect it.
Now whenever you want to voice type you have to pull down notifications, tap "Select Keyboard" and "Google Voice Typing" - Yes this is an annoyance, and it really is just a holdout until this gets fixed, but you CAN use Google Voice typing and you can keep the Samsung Keyboard. The good part is when you are down voice typing tapping the X in upper right switches you back to the keyboard without needing to pull notifications down - It only works this way. tapping the mic either does nothing or brings up Samsung Voice input if you haven't disabled it. If someone finds a full fix - please let us know..
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Hi guys:
I have noticed a weird thing, I know there's a feature that you can say "google" after holding the home button and drag it to the google icon to activate the voice search. It works fine on me for a while, but I realized that after a while it doesn't work. Moreover, after a reboot, it would work again. Regular voice search still works fine by pressing the microphone button. Anyone know what's going on? I am on stock jellybean btw, but only rooted.
So it only works every now and again?
Also dragging any of the soft buttons up opens google now.
I have the same issue. The hotword option just randomly disappears. If you go into Google Now/Settings/Voice, the option to toggle it off and on is even gone. When you reboot it comes back, but then randomly disappears again at some point.
I had the same problem and realized i had the language under Google Now/settings/voice/language set to English (Australian).
After changing it back to Default-English (US), I have been able to consistently see the "say Google" option in the main Google Now page.
I have exactly the same problem, the language is always English (US), it still randomly disappears.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769846
Do you use Light flow? I have noticed toggling "Accessibility" off and on when Light flow glitches out for me, or using Swype seems to kill hotword detection. Rebooting always seems to bring it back though
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I use both, light flow and Swype Beta. Which is killing the hot word detection ? How are they interfering anyway :s
I know from reading the issues log Light flow uses the Accessibility service. When you toggle Accessibility on and off, hotword detection disappears. It will just say "Search" in Google Now instead of Search or say Google. Dont know why but try it and youll see best way to avoid it is to not toggle that or just reboot after it happens
is there a good replacement for light flow ?
PeritoX said:
I use both, light flow and Swype Beta. Which is killing the hot word detection ? How are they interfering anyway :s
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I only use lightflow, not swype, so I am sure lightflow will interfere for sure.
the same problem in here
just got an update of lightflow - we'll see how it rolls
anyway google now 'google' saying works only when EN(US) is set as language
what is more - i see that any internal integration (e.g. saying 'set timer for 10 minutes') works as well only when the overall system language is set to EN(US)
I noticed this last week also. When it wouldnt respond to saying "Google" it didnt say "Search, or say Google" in the textbox on the voice Search (Google Now) page.
I uninstalled Lightflow and not had any issues since.
I've noticed that the hot word and hot word option only appears when you have English us set.
Change to English uk and they both don't work, also the other hot word functions, send email etc don't work as well.
Disabling light flow and restarting the phone fixes it.
My phone is stock, with "Samsung Keyboard" and "Google Voice typing" input methods.
Suddenly today when I bring up the keyboard to type, the letters pop up above the "keys" but do not show up in the input field. Doesn't matter what app I am trying to enter text into. I can't enter text any more. Even the Google Voice method does not work - nothing happens when I hit the mic symbol. When I swipe a word, the word appears in blue above the keys, but selecting the word does not put it in the text input field.
I have tried resetting the keyboard and input settings; I have restarted the phone, etc. Problem persists.
Help?
TheHourHand said:
My phone is stock, with "Samsung Keyboard" and "Google Voice typing" input methods.
Suddenly today when I bring up the keyboard to type, the letters pop up above the "keys" but do not show up in the input field. Doesn't matter what app I am trying to enter text into. I can't enter text any more. Even the Google Voice method does not work - nothing happens when I hit the mic symbol. When I swipe a word, the word appears in blue above the keys, but selecting the word does not put it in the text input field.
I have tried resetting the keyboard and input settings; I have restarted the phone, etc. Problem persists.
Help?
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Look for google voice search on the play store. I had a problem similar to this one and this fixed the problem for me.
EDIT: try this link. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.voicesearch&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC52b2ljZXNlYXJjaCJd
TheHourHand said:
My phone is stock, with "Samsung Keyboard" and "Google Voice typing" input methods.
Suddenly today when I bring up the keyboard to type, the letters pop up above the "keys" but do not show up in the input field. Doesn't matter what app I am trying to enter text into. I can't enter text any more. Even the Google Voice method does not work - nothing happens when I hit the mic symbol. When I swipe a word, the word appears in blue above the keys, but selecting the word does not put it in the text input field.
I have tried resetting the keyboard and input settings; I have restarted the phone, etc. Problem persists.
Help?
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Here's another keyboard that might let you at least type while you're trying to get it fixed.
http://db.tt/g4ulqgZj
Sent from my Galaxy S3
I switch off Google voice typing in settings and at some point it switches back on again.
Have I missed something in the settings?
Workaround
I have battled with this problem as well. I am using Google Keyboard, and am very happy with it.
Today I found a decent workaround:
In Google Keyboard settings, there is a setting for "Voice Input key", under which you can either move the little mike button to the symbol keyboard, or remove it altogether.
Hi!
Running stock 4.1.2 version of android (stock recovery etc), but rooted with CF-Auto root.
I cant rembember if this has happened only after rooting, but:
Google voice typing keeps enabling itself. When im popping out the keyboard (Samsung stock), a notification pops up and asks for "choose input method". There I can either choose Samsung stock or the Google voice typing. There is also a button to "set up input", where I untap the Google voice typing and leave Samsung stock enabled. Now the notification is gone - for a moment. After few hours / "keyboarpopups" the same notification pops up to choose the input method, Google voice typing available again..
Cheers!
so annoying
i have the same exact problem, and it is so annoying. the mic icon replaces the "," and i hate that.
I keep unchecking it from the keyboard setting but it keeps coming back!!!
anyone with solution? i searched without luck....
Is there voice input apart from S Voice? I have tried a couple of other keyboards (including, of course the Google keyboard) and there is no mic icon to be found. I have scoured the menus, including the developers menu, finding nothing that would enable voice input or voice typing. Really perplexing and frustrating omission of a feature. I am running rooted and stock. Any ideas how/if it can be done? Thanx.
Samsung Keyboard has the Samsung Voice
Swype has it's Dragon key for voice input
You can also Select while typing Google Voice Input (not really a button but it is not really a keyboard either).
sorry, I don't understand...
krelvinaz said:
Samsung Keyboard has th. Samsung Voice
Swype has it's Dragon key for voice input
You can also Select while typing Google Voice Input (not really a button but it is not really a keyboard either).
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Are you saying there is a way to get voice input? I do not know what the dragon key is. ?? I do not understand your last comment either. Sorry if I sound like a doof or something. I am fairly adept at setting up these phones but this issue just eludes me. Could you explain it to me like I was a 4 year old?
sophocles65 said:
Are you saying there is a way to get voice input? I do not know what the dragon key is. ?? I do not understand your last comment either. Sorry if I sound like a doof or something. I am fairly adept at setting up these phones but this issue just eludes me. Could you explain it to me like I was a 4 year old?
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Yes.
You can select whatever keyboard you have loaded by selecting the keyboad symbol when you swipe down from the top.
Four Images...
1) Samsung Standard keyboard has a mic button
2) If you load Swype, they have what they call Dragon Talk which is the flame looking key on the right.
3) If when selecting input device (The keyboard at the top) and select Google Voice Type, you get
4) which is ready to listen to your text. It's not really a keyboard but can be used regardless of what keyboard you have selected.
Thanks
krelvinaz said:
Yes.
You can select whatever keyboard you have loaded by selecting the keyboad symbol when you swipe down from the top.
Four Images...
1) Samsung Standard keyboard has a mic button
2) If you load Swype, they have what they call Dragon Talk which is the flame looking key on the right.
3) If when selecting input device (The keyboard at the top) and select Google Voice Type, you get
4) which is ready to listen to your text. It's not really a keyboard but can be used regardless of what keyboard you have selected.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply with attachments. I just downloaded Swype/Dragon and surprisingly the voice input works! However I still have no 'mic' button in Samsung or Google keyboards. Strange. Any ideas? I am happy to use the Swype but I would like to figure why that feature is not working in the other two keyboards.
sophocles65 said:
Thanks for taking the time to reply with attachments. I just downloaded Swype/Dragon and surprisingly the voice input works! However I still have no 'mic' button in Samsung or Google keyboards. Strange. Any ideas? I am happy to use the Swype but I would like to figure why that feature is not working in the other two keyboards.
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make sure voice typing is selected in language and inputs under your settings.
on your keyboard if you have a 3rd party keybard to the left of the keyboards space bar (the one with the 3 lil dots on it) hold the button down until the button shows more options. One of them is the mic. the button will default to whatever that last selection is.
I get what you're saying...
The problem is there is no selection in settings to activate voice typing. Also on the Samsung keyboard, pressing the button to the left of the space bar only yields the options shown in the screen shots below. Again thanks for your input and assistance.
dragonstalker said:
make sure voice typing is selected in language and inputs under your settings.
on your keyboard if you have a 3rd party keybard to the left of the keyboards space bar (the one with the 3 lil dots on it) hold the button down until the button shows more options. One of them is the mic. the button will default to whatever that last selection is.
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sophocles65 said:
The problem is there is no selection in settings to activate voice typing. Also on the Samsung keyboard, pressing the button to the left of the space bar only yields the options shown in the screen shots below. Again thanks for your input and assistance.
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Oh in that case, you need to install Google search, will automatically install the voice and GNow features.
Thanks
Yep, that did it. Thank you. Pretty lame that this isn't a feature of the OS itself, but hey we're talking Google... Thank so much to all who have contributed to the solution.
dragonstalker said:
Oh in that case, you need to install Google search, will automatically install the voice and GNow features.
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