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kathayes

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Last week, a pop-up window came up a few times asking me to download a high quality voice file. I canceled out of this because I had no idea what it was and now it doesn't come back and I'm still not sure what this was for.

What is this for?

Thanks.
 
kathayes said:
Last week, a pop-up window came up a few times asking me to download a high quality voice file. I canceled out of this because I had no idea what it was and now it doesn't come back and I'm still not sure what this was for.

What is this for?

Thanks.
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I know it happens in maps
 
kathayes said:
Last week, a pop-up window came up a few times asking me to download a high quality voice file. I canceled out of this because I had no idea what it was and now it doesn't come back and I'm still not sure what this was for.
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I kept being offered only a US English high quality voice download. Not impressed. Even if I can speak American English if I have to. I don't want my phone speaking American English. :confused:
 
kathayes said:
Last week, a pop-up window came up a few times asking me to download a high quality voice file. I canceled out of this because I had no idea what it was and now it doesn't come back and I'm still not sure what this was for.

What is this for?

Thanks.
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It won't come back, unless you access it from Samsung apps and go to "purchased" where it will show it again for free. It is a high quality voice for Text to Speech (TTS) and S-Voice. It is odd that Simon_Gardner was offered the US English version. Mine was definitely an English, UK version :


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OK I think I got it manually and it downloaded but I can't for the life of me tell whether it's activated nor can I find any menu item saying "Install voice data".
 
Simon_Gardner said:
OK I think I got it manually and it downloaded but I can't for the life of me tell whether it's activated nor can I find any menu item saying "Install voice data".
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It should have downloaded and installed straight after. I have no idea where it puts them on the device (I think you would need to be rooted to find the .apk anyway). S-Voice is a little clearer perhaps, but other than that a bit of a waste of time and space. Incidentally S-Voice had an update this morning itself. It is now version : 11.2.2.0.25716 (r1). I eagerly downloaded thinking it would have the functionality from it's settings I last had in my SGS3, no such luck.
I can report that it is less sensitive and will not open unless spoken to.
 
dynomot said:
It won't come back, unless you access it from Samsung apps and go to "purchased" where it will show it again for free. It is a high quality voice for Text to Speech (TTS) and S-Voice. It is odd that Simon_Gardner was offered the US English version. Mine was definitely an English, UK version :


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I don't use S Voice, though how is TTS on the Note3 used?
 
This is somewhat part of the S Translator, but I'm not sure if the settings affect 100% of the speech across the system.
To change voice setting, go into Settings>Controls>Language and input>Text-to-speech options>Preferred TTS Engine Cog Icon and then press language.

The other two options are for selecting normal or HD voice for each language, and below that you can sample/download the HD voices.
 
Gearu said:
This is somewhat part of the S Translator, but I'm not sure if the settings affect 100% of the speech across the system.
To change voice setting, go into Settings>Controls>Language and input>Text-to-speech options>Preferred TTS Engine Cog Icon and then press language.

The other two options are for selecting normal or HD voice for each language, and below that you can sample/download the HD voices.
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Installed S Translator and booted it.

Settings>Controls>Language and input>Text-to-speech options>

Turns out I have the UK-English HQ installed as suspected. Not that I've noticed any improvement.
 
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