Talk to text

[hookbill]

Can Vlingo be set to be the default voice to text app?

What you do is say Text Tracey pause, How are you doing today and it will send the text out. Pretty amazing. I like it.

 

[pool_shark]

Can Vlingo be set to be the default voice to text app?

What you do is say Text Tracey pause, How are you doing today and it will send the text out. Pretty amazing. I like it.

Understood, what I'm asking is if it can be set to be the default voice to text app or do I have to start vlingo to use it?

 

[hookbill]

Can Vlingo be set to be the default voice to text app?

What you do is say Text Tracey pause, How are you doing today and it will send the text out. Pretty amazing. I like it.

Understood, what I'm asking is if it can be set to be the default voice to text app or do I have to start vlingo to use it?

You've got to start Vlingo to use it.

 

[pool_shark]

What you do is say Text Tracey pause, How are you doing today and it will send the text out. Pretty amazing. I like it.

Understood, what I'm asking is if it can be set to be the default voice to text app or do I have to start vlingo to use it?

You've got to start Vlingo to use it.

Thanks.
I hate that you have to have a certain amount of characters to reply. All I wanted to say was thanks and it wouldn't let me.

 

[born2golf]

As Hookbill stated, you must launch vlingo separately and it even when it is running it will not respond to button presses on the bluetooth headset (hopefully a future feature). Instead you need to tap the screen to get it to start listening, but at least now it will listen through a bluetooth headset which is a new feature that was previously lacking. There is a widget you can run which greatly simplifies launching vlingo which I highly recommend. There are a few widgets variation which you can choose from.

Also, you can do lots of other things with vlingo such as craft an email, open apps, or look stuff up. It also has a feature that will read your TXT and email message aloud. I have upgraded my stock voice to the SVOX classic voice and the reading feature is actually pretty good.

 

[dannymarz]

Most of the time it doesn't pull up ANY contact. Arg!

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I have over 1800 contacts, and I find the native speech recognition to be amazingly accurate, and vlingo to be even better. Especially considering I am from new york city and speak very quickly AND mumbled.

However, I noticed that you must say the name as it is entered, and use both first and last name when available for best accuracy. For instance. If you have someone named Christopher Smith, You cannot say "chris" or "chris Smith". You must say "christopher smith". Also for other names that have phonetical nuances, such as silent letters or foreign language pronunciations, I would suggest pronouncing them phonetically in your native language.

Assuming you have more than one number for a contact, you also need to state which number you wish to send the text to. So building on my earlier example, you would say "Send text to Christopher Smith Mobile 1". Even if it didnt understand you command exactly, it should give you 3 options of what it THINKS you said, from which you can select on screen or via voice command (yes/no).

Another reason to consider vlingo is that you can speak the contact and the message in a single step, rather than the native method which requires addressing and then inputing the message separately. For instance "text Christopher Smith Mobile, Message Let's go watch the game"

Ok guys, I understand how to use talk to text, but this is what happens, without fail, everytime: I hold down the search soft key until voice command prompt appears, I then say, "text john doe, message, how are you?" It then shows nothing in the contacts, and in the message box it says, john doe message how are you? I also tried without saying "message". Then I tried to just get a contact to appear by just saying, "text john doe", but again, it skips the contact box and writes john doe in the message box. Vlingo wasn't any better. It said I could open an app by saying "open" and then the name of the app, but that just took me to my browser and searched the app. What's funny is the only time I actually got a name in the contact box was when I said, "text mike" and it pulled one of the 5 mikes in my contacts WITH his last name IN THE CONTACTS BOX! I truly think its a technical issue with my phone.

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[born2golf]

yes, it does sound like a problem.

 

[San Antone RR]

I speak basic HillBilly so it will be a learning curve.

That's fuggin' funny. I don't care where you come from.

 

[San Antone RR]

OK Danny, try this: No message. Just open VLingo and say "text Steve" or whoever it is in your address book. See if it pulls up the correct person. It has to be said just as it appears i the addy book.
Let us know what happens. I am playing with mine now in an attempt to FORCE it to do what yours is. Can't so far.

 

[dannymarz]

Good news! I DL vlingo again and it works! Awesome! Thanks for the help guys.

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[San Antone RR]

Sweet. Sux that the native app doesn't work for you, but glad you got VLingo going.