Google Now: help, tips

**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 12:37 PM

just got it lastnight so got some questions.. i usualy have Maps disabled but Now seems to want it enabled?
aparently Now talks to you, id never use voice input but why isnt it talking to me?
in the guide it says it learns by what you ask it but does that include text input?
(im scottish and it wont understand me)

thanx

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**junglejunkie** · 10-25-2012, 01:38 PM

Well funkylogik I'm glad you finally got your update, I know that you have been VERY eager to get it.

I have been using it for a while with my Nexus 7 an with flashing various roms for my S3 and I have NEVER heard it talk back to me. It does learn by google searches via the web. The "cards" are pretty neat. It learns your work location (it will tell you commute times with traffic), local weather, favorite sports teams & scores, but like I said I haven't ever had a "Siri like experience," which doesn't bother me.

Edit: I did ask "what is the weather" and it said my local weather out loud. So I am sure that there are a basic set of questions that it will speak responses to. I'm sure that a google search will turn up something.

Enjoy your Jellybean'd S3. I will flash back to stock once the update comes through for me (T-Mobile USA) to check it out.

**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 01:56 PM

thanks mate. its actualy the best voice rec' ive tried including siri. i asked it with my voice "what is twenty uk pounds in us dollars and it spoke the answer.
its reliable enough that i made a voice shortcut!
kudos google

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**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 02:29 PM

wish there was a thumb up/down system to teach it when its wrong with voice.
can an american please see if it recignises the word "metres" please?
no matter what accent we use, it just wont get it lol....

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**mctl** · 10-25-2012, 03:34 PM

Tried it with my french accent on the US english language pack and sure enough, it answered back with up to 7 decimals!

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Doesn't talk back to me when I use the french pack though, it always opens a Google search page

**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 03:47 PM

wow. maybe i should try US or ASTRALIAN setting.... my accent is as far from "the queens english" as u can get lol

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**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 03:50 PM

infact youre psycic because thats the EXACT question i was asking it lol... 20metres!!!

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**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 03:55 PM

ahh i changed it from english uk to english generic and it got it perfect

and spoke it with all the decimals lol

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**smooth4lyfe** · 10-25-2012, 03:59 PM

About time u got it! Now I must wait like another month possibly to get mine...argh!!!

**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 05:14 PM

lol brer i hate to say it but like everyone says its an anticlimax so far.

crazy thing is its the voice recognition (something i didnt care about) thats impressed me most

i still dont understand expanding notifications.....?
none of mine have changed exept that you can long press to go to the app in app manager....

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**geekymcfly** · 10-25-2012, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

lol brer i hate to say it but like everyone says its an anticlimax so far.

crazy thing is its the voice recognition (something i didnt care about) thats impressed me most

i still dont understand expanding notifications.....?
none of mine have changed exept that you can long press to go to the app in app manager....

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Yeah the voice recognition is good, expanding notifications just let's you view the whole message instead of a small preview like on ics. I did enjoy jb.

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**funkylogik** · 10-25-2012, 08:54 PM

so do u just tap it mate?

..and why "did"?

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**geekymcfly** · 10-25-2012, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

so do u just tap it mate?

..and why "did"?

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You just drag it down and I was coming out of a tattoo shop last week and I (well I suffer from ptsd) and thought I saw something from the corner of my eye and tossed my phone into the air on accident and had to get the phone replaced.

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**junglejunkie** · 10-26-2012, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

i still dont understand expanding notifications.....?
none of mine have changed exept that you can long press to go to the app in app manager....

It will only work with some notifications. If you miss a call, do a 2 finger swipe down and it will give you the option to call them back or send a text. If you get a gmail do a 2 finger swipe down and you will expand the email. Use 2 fingers and "pull" the notification down.

**geekymcfly** · 10-26-2012, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by junglejunkie

It will only work with some notifications. If you miss a call, do a 2 finger swipe down and it will give you the option to call them back or send a text. If you get a gmail do a 2 finger swipe down and you will expand the email. Use 2 fingers and "pull" the notification down.

That's funny bc it displayed full when I just pulled it down

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**funkylogik** · 10-26-2012, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by iCrank

You just drag it down and I was coming out of a tattoo shop last week and I (well I suffer from ptsd) and thought I saw something from the corner of my eye and tossed my phone into the air on accident and had to get the phone replaced.

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unlucky man

oh yeah, 2 fingers worked

cheers

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**geekymcfly** · 10-26-2012, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

unlucky man

oh yeah, 2 fingers worked

cheers

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Yeah it sucks

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**funkylogik** · 10-26-2012, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by iCrank

Yeah it sucks

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lucky u were insured mate

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**deanodrums** · 10-26-2012, 06:19 PM

Google now? Wtf is this

**funkylogik** · 10-26-2012, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by deanodrums

Google now? Wtf is this

long press menu mate

it suggests you keep wifi on even when not connected.
read the guide, aparently it wants maps enabled too.
try asking voice the weather (dont tell it where you are) or asking what 29 UK pounds is in US dollars

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**deanodrums** · 10-26-2012, 06:41 PM

Ok done that. I pressed the g and it goes back to my home screen

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**vr002sh** · 10-26-2012, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

wow. maybe i should try US or ASTRALIAN setting.... my accent is as far from "the queens english" as u can get lol

I work in the US for a company that has a major office in Nottingham UK, We have a chap from Scotland who works there. We have a employee whose last name is Cook, but this chap pronounces it Kook. I chuckle every time he does it. On the other hand if i am on hands free in the car and he is talking, I have to keep my wife out of the car, she swoons for his voice.

**funkylogik** · 10-26-2012, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by vr002sh

I work in the US for a company that has a major office in Nottingham UK, We have a chap from Scotland who works there. We have a employee whose last name is Cook, but this chap pronounces it Kook. I chuckle every time he does it. On the other hand if i am on hands free in the car and he is talking, I have to keep my wife out of the car, she swoons for his voice.

lol ma accent, although very rugged and abrupt (when i lived in south england for 2years i could say "hello" and it sounded like a threat to them) i dont have the put-on Ewan McGreggor (starwars) sexy accent lol

the girls in England liked it but the guys just wanted to fight

p.s, ask the scot to pronounce "worm" as in "earthworm" lol... we say it "wirr-im"

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**funkylogik** · 10-26-2012, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by deanodrums

Ok done that. I pressed the g and it goes back to my home screen

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in home screen, long press the left capacitive key mate same as we used to do for google search and it brings up google Now

what ive done for a Now voice input is download "custom ics search" widget, when you go to add it, make the box and "google" word transparent and make the microphone whatever colour suits your screen, long press it when uve added it and resize as small as possible. then u have a direct siri-like shortcut to talk to it. ask it "whats the weather" and it knows where you are and speaks the reply

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**vr002sh** · 10-26-2012, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

lol ma accent, although very rugged and abrupt (when i lived in south england for 2years i could say "hello" and it sounded like a threat to them) i dont have the put-on Ewan McGreggor (starwars) sexy accent lol

the girls in England liked it but the guys just wanted to fight

p.s, ask the scot to pronounce "worm" as in "earthworm" lol... we say it "wirr-im"

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I will see Barry next week, I will ask him to pronounce Worm! LOL