Trick to make S Voice work better

[A0425A]

Like most I've been very frustrated with how poorly S Voice works on this wearable. I was playing around with my watch one day and I accidentally ran across a "shortcut" that makes S-Voice respond better to voice input.

Normally when I'm using S-Voice it's to reply to a text. That reply is usually initiated by clicking the reply arrow within the text on the watch and then clicking the microphone to initiate S Voice. I think most would agree that when you use this method S Voice is slow to respond and not very accurate. Then it dawned on me one day that when I initiate S Voice through the hi gear command input was more accurate and a lot faster. So now when I receive a text on my watch I initiate S Voice for the hi gear command, tell the watch I want to text the person that just texted me, and send it. Response from the watch is faster and much more accurate. I'm hoping Samsung watches (no pun intended) these boards, sees this and fixes the bug in the code.

If others would try this out and either concur with what I found or respond that they find something differently that would be very helpful.

 

[ret18057]

okay, I'll confess to not knowing what "hi gear" is. Tell me, and I will give it a shot. The crappy voice to text S-Voice has compared to Android is maddening.

 

[primal5]

Hes referring to actually speaking to the watch and saying Hi Gear text....... , kind of like you would say Ok Google

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[ret18057]

Jeez, right. I never used the wake up commend, thanks!

 

[FitzAusTex]

Yes, insanely better, than replying directly to a text. Although I can no longer say "Text John Mobile", like I used to be able to (I get "SMS service not available"), if I select the person from the Buddy app, S Voice displays my spoken words almost as quickly as I speak them, and" fairly" accurately (not Google-accurate, but close). It is maddening how long it takes if I reply directly to a text notification.

Samsung should fix this. And it would be great if the microphone was automatically listening when you hit reply like Google's microphone does. Would save two extra steps.