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Stop bluetooth from reading my text messages aloud! Pls help!!

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mudrubble

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Recently, my bluetooth has taken to reading out my texts out loud, which is a huge problem when I'm connected to external bluetooth speakers. An embarrassing problem that must stop. At all costs.

I don't know what's changed and I don't know what to do to stop this. The only clue I have is that in "Application Manager", when I go to "Bluetooth Share" and scroll down to "Permissions", it lists:

edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
recieve text messages (SMS)
send SMS messages - this may cost you money

I suspect it's the "read your text messages" that's causing my problem (although I am not smartphone savvy by any means so my suspicion may not be worth much) but there is seemingly no way to edit these permissions from this screen. It makes no sense to list the permissions but make them impossible to edit, so I'm sure they can be edited somewhere but I just don't know where.

Can anyone help? There's a gold star in this for you. Two, even. I will commemorate your name in these forums.

Please and thank you
 
Don't know what bluetooth share is as I don't have that app but in application manager click the 3 little dots in the upper right and click reset app preferences. Maybe that will reset it to the way it was. Mary
 
Go to Settings/ Accessibility/Vision/Text-to-Speech options
There you can change the Speech Rate: I don't see a way to turn it off, but you can make it so fast no one can understand it.

I will keep looking, I remember seeing somewhere how to turn it OFF altogether

There is another method that I highly suggest that you do "for now".

Install Ivona Voice
* IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ - Android Apps on Google Play

Once you have that installed, you must select a Language for it to use.
For your situation, I would choose something so foreign that not even one syllable would be intelligible to anyone around you.

Combine that with the extremely fastest speech rate, and it would just be little tiny piece of noise. You could explain it off as a new "notification tone".
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2 ea. Verizon Galaxy S5, KK 4.4.4, ART
MyPhoneExplorer saves your tailbone
Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
MacroDroid senses Screen on, turns WiFi & Data ON
 
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Maybe turn off car mode if its on,,, OR Settings - General - Language and input - (read notifications aloud) maybe turned on.
 
Now, I am going to offer you yet another way to get around the sitution altogether.

Install MacroDroid => * MacroDroid - Device Automation - Android Apps on Google Play
Immediately pay for the upgrade to the premium version.

Now, open MD and touch the + sign to create a new macro.

For the first item, you must choose a trigger, and I want you to select incoming Notifications.

Trigger: Incoming Notifications
select: your text messaging app. for me it is Textra​

Action: Set Volume
select: Notifications, System Sounds
now on the slider bar, move the dot completely to the Left​

touch the Right Arrow at the upper right corner of the phone
do that once again, Right Arrow

touch "Enter name" to open the keyboard
type in a name here, I suggest "Silence Notifications"​
touch OK

At this point, you have totally killed all system sounds and Notifications sounds from the phone.
and it will stay that way until we reset them to normal.

You can choose any number of methods to trigger the phone back to a normal condition, but just for the sake of showing you how it Might Be Done, let's just say we want to just wiggle the phone a bunch and that will restore everything to normal. Okay?


touch the + sign to make a macro

Trigger: Shake Device
Action: Set Volume
select the two items you turned off, Notifications and System Sounds.
move the slider back to a normal volume level​
touch OK

now you have just programmed your phone to go Silent when you receive an incoming Text Notification.
and it will stay that way until you shake the phone violently.

Okay?

let me know how your life is going now.


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2 ea. Verizon Galaxy S5, KK 4.4.4, ART
MyPhoneExplorer saves your tailbone
Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
MacroDroid senses Screen on, turns WiFi & Data ON
 
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KennyR said:
Maybe turn off car mode if its on,,, OR Settings - General - Language and input - (read notifications aloud) maybe turned on.
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and I do believe this is where the place was that I remember seeing that.
because I have that turned ON for incoming phone calls so that my callers will be announced to me.


The menu designers on these devices need a LOT of instructions on how to write menus.
You would think, that once you got to a place that says "Text to Speech" that you would be able to control everything it does from that one menu........ but no, they have to hide the most important parts under another arcane Menu Heading.
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2 ea. Verizon Galaxy S5, KK 4.4.4, ART
MyPhoneExplorer saves your tailbone
Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
MacroDroid senses Screen on, turns WiFi & Data ON
 
I just bookmarked this thread under the Bookmark name of * Text to Speech, How to control it

see? so easy, because this one thread will now explain to anyone in the future how to do it.
 
acraftylady said:
Don't know what bluetooth share is as I don't have that app but in application manager click the 3 little dots in the upper right and click reset app preferences. Maybe that will reset it to the way it was. Mary
Click to expand...

Thanks Mary.... will this reset default settings for ALL apps on my phone? That could create months of work for me to get everything working according to preferences I have set up now. This sounds awesome but if I can avoid all that work, I will try another option first. Does it reset everything?
 
AZgl1500 said:
Go to Settings/ Accessibility/Vision/Text-to-Speech options
There you can change the Speech Rate: I don't see a way to turn it off, but you can make it so fast no one can understand it.

I will keep looking, I remember seeing somewhere how to turn it OFF altogether

There is another method that I highly suggest that you do "for now".

Install Ivona Voice
* IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ - Android Apps on Google Play

Once you have that installed, you must select a Language for it to use.
For your situation, I would choose something so foreign that not even one syllable would be intelligible to anyone around you.

Combine that with the extremely fastest speech rate, and it would just be little tiny piece of noise. You could explain it off as a new "notification tone".
____________________________________
2 ea. Verizon Galaxy S5, KK 4.4.4, ART
MyPhoneExplorer saves your tailbone
Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
MacroDroid senses Screen on, turns WiFi & Data ON
Click to expand...

Wow! I'm trying this. I've downloaded Ivona and I've downloaded the Icelandic language pack. But it is still reading in English! How do I get it to actually read in the new accent? I went to Accessibility > Text to Voice and choose IVONA. I went to IVONA and chose Icelandic Dora voice. Yet it's reading in plain English and driving me mad! My friend's father has cancer and he's sending me updates and I need this to stop!

UPDATE: A minor success is I've gotten it to read at the "fastest" rate so it sounds like jumbled English. That's ONE STEP forward.

But I want this to either stop or be in a new language. I'll keep reading your next suggestions.

Btw, you're an extremely useful human being. Thank you!
 
AZgl1500 said:
Now, I am going to offer you yet another way to get around the sitution altogether.

Install MacroDroid => * MacroDroid - Device Automation - Android Apps on Google Play
Immediately pay for the upgrade to the premium version.

Now, open MD and touch the + sign to create a new macro.

For the first item, you must choose a trigger, and I want you to select incoming Notifications.

Trigger: Incoming Notifications
select: your text messaging app. for me it is Textra​

Action: Set Volume
select: Notifications, System Sounds
now on the slider bar, move the dot completely to the Left​

touch the Right Arrow at the upper right corner of the phone
do that once again, Right Arrow

touch "Enter name" to open the keyboard
type in a name here, I suggest "Silence Notifications"​
touch OK

At this point, you have totally killed all system sounds and Notifications sounds from the phone.
and it will stay that way until we reset them to normal.

You can choose any number of methods to trigger the phone back to a normal condition, but just for the sake of showing you how it Might Be Done, let's just say we want to just wiggle the phone a bunch and that will restore everything to normal. Okay?


touch the + sign to make a macro

Trigger: Shake Device
Action: Set Volume
select the two items you turned off, Notifications and System Sounds.
move the slider back to a normal volume level​
touch OK

now you have just programmed your phone to go Silent when you receive an incoming Text Notification.
and it will stay that way until you shake the phone vilently.

Okay?

let me know how your life is going now.


____________________________________
2 ea. Verizon Galaxy S5, KK 4.4.4, ART
MyPhoneExplorer saves your tailbone
Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
MacroDroid senses Screen on, turns WiFi & Data ON
Click to expand...

This sounds interesting but I just want to make sure. It sounds like this will either kill all notification sounds or allow them all. As in no sound when I get a new text, email or WhatsApp. For someone as notoriously inattentive to messages as me, these sounds are a life saver and I really wouldn't want to kill all sounds as I'll miss important texts from family, etc.

Is that it? All or nothing? I do want the notification, absolutely. I just don't want it reading my damned texts, grumble......

As I said above, right now it's reading really quickly, which is a step forward, but I'd love it to stop reading out loud altogether and I'm shocked at how hard this is!

Is there no simple way to sever the link between my texts and bluetooth altogether? Especially this "read your text messages (SMS or MMS)"?

Is there a way to reset just the permissions on this Bluetooth Share only? For those who have an S5 or a Samsung??

Thanks for all the help I'm getting. I really appreciate it.
 
SUCCESS!!

You guys are awesome! As it turns out, the SmileQ.apk was NOT deleted by dragging it to the trash can. I went to application manager and deleted it from there and all is well again! Simple solution.

These Bonnaire mx-610 headphones (amazon.com - no I don't work for the company) are the best bang for the buck I have heard and super convenient ($90 USD) but by god, don't install the app that they offer on their page (to show battery levels on your screen) or else you'll be in a world of headaches!

Thank you all. Honestly, there was a lot of goodwill here.
 
Aloha all,
Newbie to this forum.
My phone, a Galaxy Note 4, has a native "Car Mode" app that I must manually start before getting into my car and driving. I'm not interested in it giving me any type of assistance except when a phone call or text is received while I'm driving. I'm aware that the phone has a sensor that detects when the phone is moving as in a car or on a bike. So, my question is why do I have to open and start the app to get it to do the simple things I mentioned above.
My wife has a Motorola Droid Maxx HD with a native app called "Assist" which detects the phones movement in a car and behaves Like I would prefer.
Are there any work-arounds.
Mahalo-n-aloha from the big Isle of Hawaii
 
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