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Help disable car dock text to speech prompt for sms?

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trayson

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I haven't been able to find a way to turn off the text to speech (TTS) prompt in car dock mode on my Droid 3.

when in car mode, I get a prompt that audibly asks me if I want my text message read. I have a choice of read aloud or dismiss. It's pretty annoying since I'd prefer NOT to get a prompt at all, and if I wanna read a text message, I can do that from the notifications bar anyway.

I've searched voice input/output settings and can't find a way to turn this "feature" off. It looks like in pre-gingerbread releases, you could disable TTS in car mode, but I see no such option now.

Any insight? Personally, I'm not a big fan of car dock home anyway. In my droid 1, I ripped the magnet out of the car dock with a pair of pliers. :D With the D3, I'm trying to give car dock mode a chance since it's mildly customizable and has a cool BT toggle built in.
 
I am having the same issue! I use Vlingo to read my texts but this thing is annoying when I have it in the car dock. Anybody figure out how to turn it off?
 
trayson said:
I haven't been able to find a way to turn off the text to speech (TTS) prompt in car dock mode on my Droid 3.

when in car mode, I get a prompt that audibly asks me if I want my text message read. I have a choice of read aloud or dismiss. It's pretty annoying since I'd prefer NOT to get a prompt at all, and if I wanna read a text message, I can do that from the notifications bar anyway.

I've searched voice input/output settings and can't find a way to turn this "feature" off. It looks like in pre-gingerbread releases, you could disable TTS in car mode, but I see no such option now.

Any insight? Personally, I'm not a big fan of car dock home anyway. In my droid 1, I ripped the magnet out of the car dock with a pair of pliers. :D With the D3, I'm trying to give car dock mode a chance since it's mildly customizable and has a cool BT toggle built in.
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I've just started seeing the voice prompt since the update; before that it just gave a notification in the notification bar. I also don't like the voice prompt but haven'r found a way to disable it.

As far as the car dock home goes - I like CarHome Ultra a LOT better than the stock car home. You can try it for 21 days free.

dj
 
djbolden said:
I've just started seeing the voice prompt since the update; before that it just gave a notification in the notification bar. I also don't like the voice prompt but haven'r found a way to disable it.

As far as the car dock home goes - I like CarHome Ultra a LOT better than the stock car home. You can try it for 21 days free.

dj
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I use "Car Dock Home V3." Totally customizable (i.e. add widgets and whatnot) and totally FREE :) .....you'll still get the stupid voice prompt when you get a text though. Anything is better than the stock car home.
 
I also use Car Dock Home V3.....I just want to get rid of that Text to Voice message, especially when I use Vlingo already. Now that you mention it, the update is what added that....Would have been alright if we could have turned it off. Hopefully they'll realize they screwed up and fix it.
 
joshica said:
I also use Car Dock Home V3.....I just want to get rid of that Text to Voice message, especially when I use Vlingo already. Now that you mention it, the update is what added that....Would have been alright if we could have turned it off. Hopefully they'll realize they screwed up and fix it.
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Agreed.
 
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