Jelly Bean - Android 4.1

The way Google's VA shows results is much better IMO - I.E. the prime minister and South Africa questions.

owns siri was a bit strong - but I wasn't really serious.
 
I just tried playing those voice commands to my ICS GN.

1. Weather question worked perfectly
2. Set a timer doesn't work
3. Does the same joke search.
4. Capital of South Africa, fails to recognise question
5. Manages to answer David Cameron for PM question.
 
The search tests in those comparison videos aren't really useful. I want to see how well Google's voice assistant fares for things like composing a text message to someone, without touching the phone (like you would in the car).
 
anyon said:
Composing texts with voice work fine in ICS?
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No, I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about doing the entire thing without touching the phone. So you say:

"Send a message to X"

and then Siri would go:

"Okay, what would you like to say?"

etc.
 
Robbo said:
No, I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about doing the entire thing without touching the phone. So you say:

"Send a message to X"

and then Siri would go:

"Okay, what would you like to say?"

etc.
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Oh okay. Voice prompts would be nice. Can't remember but what happened in the Gmail demo using voice commands?

edit: that was just voice typing.
 
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Robbo said:
No, I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about doing the entire thing without touching the phone. So you say:

"Send a message to X"

and then Siri would go:

"Okay, what would you like to say?"

etc.
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I just tested this. GVA doesn't ask the follow up question, rather it takes you you to the message composing screen with the recipient details filled out. I don't think it would take too much work for them to implement it like SIRI as it clearly understands what you are trying to do.

If you ask it something like "tell X I'll be home for dinner", it actually composes the message for you too ("I'll be home for dinner") but you still have to press send manually.

It's clear that the foundations are solid. Speech recognition is excellent and its ability to extract semantic information from sentences is very good. It just needs a bit of tweaking and refinement so it works well for the SIRI use cases that Apple users have become accustomed to.
 
Qhorin said:
I just tested this. GVA doesn't ask the follow up question, rather it takes you you to the message composing screen with the recipient details filled out. I don't think it would take too much work for them to implement it like SIRI as it clearly understands what you are trying to do.

If you ask it something like "tell X I'll be home for dinner", it actually composes the message for you too ("I'll be home for dinner") but you still have to press send manually.

It's clear that the foundations are solid. Speech recognition is excellent and its ability to extract semantic information from sentences is very good. It just needs a bit of tweaking and refinement so it works well for the SIRI use cases that Apple users have become accustomed to.
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Thanks for trying it. That's what I suspected it would do.

Hopefully they will improve it in future, I'm sure they will!
 
Robbo said:
No, I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about doing the entire thing without touching the phone. So you say:

"Send a message to X"

and then Siri would go:

"Okay, what would you like to say?"

etc.
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This happens in S-Voice. I tell it the person, choose the number, speak the text then say send to send it all without touching the phone save for the initial action.
 
Richie said:
This happens in S-Voice. I tell it the person, choose the number, speak the text then say send to send it all without touching the phone save for the initial action.
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Yep!

Being able to write and send a message while in the car is the only real use I've found for voice assistants so far.
 
anyon said:
I just tried playing those voice commands to my ICS GN.

1. Weather question worked perfectly
2. Set a timer doesn't work
3. Does the same joke search.
4. Capital of South Africa, fails to recognise question
5. Manages to answer David Cameron for PM question.
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How do you do these tests with ICS/SG2? Questions 3/4 for example lol all it does it take me to google with the question typed, I thought it would automatically say the answer like the videos!
 
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Yeah! Set timer just doesn't work! Strange... it instead searches for the terms, and it did pick it up correctly.

Anyway the speed of the OS and the keyboard is just now awesome. Finally I feel like I have a amazing, speedy smartphone!
 
I think the few voice actions that aren't working are due to them only being available in English(US), even though there is the option for English(UK) which you can even download for offline voice typing use.

Project Butter is absolutely fantastic. It's especially noticeable in Pulse news reader as you have the horizontal film strip like news feeds for each site and before Jelly Bean, scrolling of these film strips to read older and/or newer news items was very choppy.
 
Having used this for the last few days on my GN, I have to say I like it. A good evolution of ICS.

I wasnt sure about the notification tab when I first say it, basically because its been mostly unchanged since Android 1 but I do like it now and wouldnt go back. I even find I swipe across stuff to remove more now, which I never did in ICS even though the feature was there.
 
Cheers Nexus - will look into that app.


I've just noticed the new transition animation in JB compared the one in ICS - How boring and gash!

Google - you fools!
 
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