S3 Text to speech sucks!!

[vidiot1]

This is my 3rd Android and I've used the text to speech function on all of them. Has anyone else noticed that the S3 sucks!! I never had any problems with my incredible or fascinate as far as i spoke and it typed out what i say with ease. With the 3s if never understand me and you have to press done when you want to finish. I't's a pain in the ass. Is there a 3rd party app that work better? I'ts driving me crazy.
Thanks

 

[gme109]

I've noticed the same thing, voice to text on the S3 is not very accurate, and I've even selected personalized recognition under voice search settings, and it doesn't appear to make any difference. You can also try going into settings>language and input>voice recognizer, and then select Samsung powered by Vlingo. But again, I didn't notice any improvement in voice recognition. Hopefully this improves with Jellybean.

 

[roush611]

Mine works fine.

 

[Heisenberg123]

mine works fine also, was bluring out my swear words but i found the setting to turn that off,

 

[Hightech]

I have no problems.... in "language and input" I use google voice.....and "voice recognizer" I use google also. Very rarely have any problem at all.

 

[Max_Headroom]

I use google now and it works fine.

Say "send text to" (name contact) speak message and it will show message and contact and you say sent or hit send.

 

[vidiot1]

I've noticed the same thing, voice to text on the S3 is not very accurate, and I've even selected personalized recognition under voice search settings, and it doesn't appear to make any difference. You can also try going into settings>language and input>voice recognizer, and then select Samsung powered by Vlingo. But again, I didn't notice any improvement in voice recognition. Hopefully this improves with Jellybean.

Wow, changing to Samsung made a big difference ,thanks. Anyway to get rid of the "done" funtion

 

[gme109]

Wow, changing to Samsung made a big difference ,thanks. Anyway to get rid of the "done" funtion

I kinda like how its setup now. The mic stays on which allows you to dictate longer messages without having to constantly hit the mic button.

 

[Arms_Reach]

I kinda like how its setup now. The mic stays on which allows you to dictate longer messages without having to constantly hit the mic button.

Yeah, that was a huge improvement. I have more time to think and can put a more complex thought together without stuttering on a word. This post was made by pressing voice to text once. It really is cool!

 

[hal1]

Does the voice-to-text using the microphone on Swiftkey use the native S3 voice software? if so mine also works fine when sending texts or emails, even can tell if I want to say their, there, or they're. When it does mis-understand it's always reasonable based on what I said.

 

[shearclass]

How do you add punctuation when you are dictating a text?

Thanks.

 

[Heisenberg123]

How do you add punctuation when you are dictating a text?

Thanks.

you say it

 

[shearclass]

Oh...

I tried this, admittedly briefly, and it just took down what i was saying as words, rather than the punctuation.

I will try again. Cheers

 

[sherrymyra]

wow it works better for me now. and if I say period it puts the period in.

I love the great help and tips I get from here.

 

[FCAppraiser]

I've used several HTC phones along with a newer yet middle of the road Samsung Exhilarate, and I could open apps, play music, send complex sentenced texts, and of course dial by number or contact name... I'm trying to currently find the same app the Samsung used because it worked great.... Now however, I'm stuck with an HTC ONE X which simply dials random numbers because the voice recognition is junk. Or, hopefully it's not the phone itself...

I'm also in search of a better voice recognition software...

Also, my new android phone (One X) takes forever to get to the start menu... In other words, no matter what, there is a 3-7 second delay when I hit the back key... I've deleted all but one page of apps from my home screen, and this thing is supposed to be faster, but my older HTC doesn't have a delay...? I'm starting to thing I was better of with the cheaper phone.

 

[Ches111]

Just an FYI. Your title is wrong. You are specifically talking about speech recognition NOT Text to Speech. Text to Speech is the ability of the device to read typed text back to you (similar to receiving texts while in driving mode or the totally awesome text to speech in the S3 navigation app.) Speech recognition is what you are talking about. As mentioned before there are two options for Speech Reco on the device. The Samsung Speech Engine and the Google Speech Engine. Both work similar in nature. Try both to see which works best for your voice patterns/cadence/delays.
The other thing you have been talking about is something called "end-of-speech timeout" This is the amount of time/delay since the recognizer heard anything on the line. This result varies widely due to a number of influences. Many people in the South have longer delays between speech than other parts of the US. So a speech recognizer that is set with quicker end-of-speech will put these folks off since it did not wait for them to finish their sentence.

Basically the Text to Speech I have heard on the device has actually been amazing!

Hope this helps!

/me = Speech Engineer!