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Google Voice doesn't work!

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DankNasty

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I have my google voice setup i can make calls from my gvoice number but it literally never recieves any incoming calls on the number.
 
I assume so because i have gotten about 2 out of 100 calls to actually answer on my phone the others it goes stragiht to that google voice automated message.
 
Yea my calls are forwarded to my cellphone but i rarely can recieve a call on my gvoice number does gvoice use wifi or will it work over 3g network.
 
It uses your cell signal. You need GrooveIP or similar program to use 3G/Wifi.

Google Voice also uses cell minutes unless you are using data (via GrooveIP or similar).
 
Oh well that explains everything i live in the mountains and get no reception. On my iphone i just used a little app called whistle call or something is there anything like that for droid or how do i do this groove ip thing?
 
I have never used it since I first set it up. And don't have it set up on this ROM. But I don't recall it being too hard to setup.
 
i just got groove ip seems pretty straight forward enter my google voice username and password but it wont let me sign on it just says grooveip not logged in "my gmailaccount"
 
Google Voice couldn't be more useless for me - no matter how clearly or loud I speak, it repeats the same, utterly inane errors! For example, it repeatedly persists that "Street" is "Saint"!
 
Either you or Google Voice should get elocution lessons. :)

OTOH: the other day Android's voice recognition immaculately transcribed my dictation of "australopithecus sediba" (the newest member of the hominid tree). I fell off my chair!

And it does remarkably well in recognizing several other languages besides English! A breath of fresh air!
 
DoDodorant said:
Either you or Google Voice should get elocution lessons. :)

OTOH: the other day Android's voice recognition immaculately transcribed my dictation of "australopithecus sediba" (the newest member of the hominid tree). I fell off my chair!

And it does remarkably well in recognizing several other languages besides English! A breath of fresh air!
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I suspect there is no small dependency on the phone which you are running Google Voice on, but I don't need elocution lessons. There are, however, some who need to be educated in civility.

It's well-established that a lot of us are having undue problems getting this function to work in a way which does anything better than compound the danger of trying to do anything from behind the wheel, and on my phone it's enough that it would make a blind person insane.
 
I am using GrooVe IP with the Optimus V phone. When making outgoing calls, the other party tells me the sound is choppy, garbled, and hard to hear. I have made numerous setting adjustments to compensate. What settings have others found helpful when experiencing these problems?
 
nted said:
I am using GrooVe IP with the Optimus V phone. When making outgoing calls, the other party tells me the sound is choppy, garbled, and hard to hear.
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Is this on 3G or wi-fi? I have this problem on my home VoIP if I have too much net traffic. If it is 3G you're probably not going to get better sound quality, if it is wi-fi kill some network traffic.
 
GV/GrooveIP works good for me on Wifi. It "works" on 3G, but with VM shotty network, it doesn't always work well. I mainly use it on wifi at home where I have no cell signal.

I'm not sure why they even call it Google "Voice", since on a phone it's not even meant to be used for calling, only texting (unless you have another app like Groove IP). Hopefully they'll come out with plug-in that will let it work like it does on a PC (where it works very well).
 
MacFett said:
And some in humor.

Pull over.
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I don't think that sounds so humerous!:eek:

I didn't mean to get sol touchy about this, but for me it's been a real ball buster. Here I am using a smartphone, so I'm not really a computer-phobe, but among the things I am least comfortable with are actually talking to a machine. It's just plain creepy enough at a drive-thru box, where you can't see the person you are talking to, and it's doubtful that any intelligent life exists at the other end. That's why my highest-ranking pet peeve is when I must talk to an actual machine, where I know no intelligent life forms exist. The only thing which irks me worse is then the goddam thing starts talking back (like with those evil self-checkout supermarket droids). Still, I gave it a shot in the name of making modern conveniences safer to use.

Now, although most people have not, in recent decades, had any difficulty understanding my speech, I had a bit of an impediment as a child, therefore I can be a bit sensitive on this in general. But, psychology and dichotomy aside, there's still no good reason for Google executives to get paid when every time you say something such as "Fulton Street, Amsterdam", you consistently get repeated back "Fulton, Saint Amsterdam"! Now, that isn't humerous, it's hysterical - until you spend some ridiculous amount of time trying to correct this problem, only to find that Google Voice seems to have an agenda of it's own.

No matter how many different ways I experimented with the pauses, volume, and vocal tone, it repeated back the same nonsense unless I attempted to make it find something different. I find it particularly lacking that Google doesn't apply any sort of nonsense filter when its own app Navigation is applied to it, so that if it makes a guess for what I'm saying, at least it will be for an actual street somewhere.

Google Voice seems to have it's own agenda. There are common street names, in un-obscure American cities, which it will twist to ridiculous proportions. It has a similar problem with certain common phrases in the "Find" mode. Frustrated, I experimented by uttering a string of mumbled obscenities - somehow or another it understood that perfectly!

Maybe Google Voice works better on other phones, but on mine there's no doubt anyone else who uses it would have the same problem.
 
Are you sure you're talking about google voice? This is a VoIP app. I think you may have this confused with something else.
 
Think we're talking about 2 different things here... "Google Voice" is an app for texting (and calling on a PC), it's actually a secondary phone number. The "voice" you're talking about that's "supposed to" recognize commands, it "Voice search" (at least I think that's what that app is called). I just find it amazing that any of it works at all... and certainly as well as it does. When using Navigation I'd say it gets what I speak correct 90% of the time. I'm sure there are apps that work better, but if it worked 100% of the time, it sure wouldn't be free. I'm really shocked that Google gives away so much stuff free.... but then I guess we're all just beta testers for the day they start charging for stuff when it all works right.

I can't understand ANYONE on a landline to landline phone call to a Dell service center; at least I can understand my Nav lady and she can understand me (most of the time).
 
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