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Post by hobbit on Sept 13, 2016 11:37:56 GMT
An old chap has just dropped his around to me, asking if I can get his Microphone app back - he's lost it! knowing nothing about these annoying things I need your help! - where is the "speech to text" microphone app? - thanks!!!
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Post by Rob on Sept 13, 2016 12:26:16 GMT
Do you mean it was some sort of voice recording app?
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Post by hobbit on Sept 13, 2016 12:36:30 GMT
All I can assume is that it's the fire version of Cortana! - he said he just says what he wants to search for and a list of things on that subject comes up on screen! - I've managed to retrieve an App called "evervoice" that uses something called iGvoice that you log into via your Google name and Password, then accepts your speech commands, but not sure if that was what he was using! or whether there was just a Mic app that you just "tapped" to use!
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Post by Rob on Sept 13, 2016 12:45:10 GMT
Sounds like the Alexa 'app' which is the equivalent of Siri.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 12:52:07 GMT
Have you checked with the old fella whether he's done a full power down/restart? I lost some of my Amazon TV Fire Stick menu yesterday and a restart from the bowels of the Settings menu brought it back. Not just a switch off/on. I would guess that similar software drives both devices, but it's just a guess. My son has an older Amazon Kindle Fire and it's a lottery whether or not the thing will switch on. It's a bleeding awful device, frankly.
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Post by hobbit on Sept 13, 2016 13:00:58 GMT
It certainly is! - I've only had it a couple of hours and if it was mine it would be in a thousand pieces now! - piece of absolutely frustrating S***! and it's full of bloomin adverts!!!
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 13, 2016 14:26:53 GMT
All I can assume is that it's the fire version of Cortana! - he said he just says what he wants to search for and a list of things on that subject comes up on screen! - I've managed to retrieve an App called "evervoice" that uses something called iGvoice that you log into via your Google name and Password, then accepts your speech commands, but not sure if that was what he was using! or whether there was just a Mic app that you just "tapped" to use! There should be a mic icon on the top right of the onscreen keyboard. - Well there is on real Android anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 14:29:20 GMT
Good point, maybe he's changed the keyboard settings by mistake. I've managed to set mine to Chinese by accident before. That's not an easy one to recover from.
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Post by hobbit on Sept 13, 2016 14:41:08 GMT
I've admitted defeat before it "did" for me, or I "did" for it!- the most annoying thing I think I've ever encountered!- in my opinion it wasn't worth the frustration it was giving me, - still he gave me a Fiver for trying, spent now on headache pills!- bloomin useless thing!!! - Thanks for trying to help tho';-)long time since I've felt this wound up! ;-))
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 13, 2016 16:34:49 GMT
you are not selling this thing to us hobbit.
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Post by crankcase on Sept 14, 2016 7:01:59 GMT
We have one each - a 6 and a 7.
I don't use mine at all, as it turns out, as it doesn't do anything I find of interest, rather than any technical constraint. But madam uses hers all the time and loves it to bits. However, all she uses it for is reading books and the very occasional website, nothing else, so very little typing, and no games or anything like that.
One failed once in a similar manner - something or other vanished, don't recall what. I do recall discovering that:
Google says to hold down the power button for 20 seconds, ignoring all the prompts, and it will do a slightly less soft than usual reset, and you don't lose any data or anything, but stuff gets sorted. Which worked physically, but didn't solve the problem for us.
I then discovered that hopping on to Amazon's site and clonking some button or other induced them to ring me in about fifteen seconds, and a knowledgeable person talked me through some arcane and now-forgotten set of steps, and possibly did something at their end - anyway, it all worked again in five minutes flat and has never failed again.
As long as you accept the limitations and you are a very light user then it does the job pretty well, especially for the buttons they cost at the time. I think there was a deal and a special and some other promotion, but we ended up with the two for about £100 or a bit less the pair, as I recall.
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