Only in USA
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So let me get this straight Google... I can use voice commands that control my device only in the US? But I can search the Internet, control Maps and whatever else just fine?
Oh, wait, except they are lying liars. It works perfectly well. What is this, reverse Cortana?
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@Onyx It says offline mode for voice actions is only available in the US. I assume they really mean "only the US-English dictionary is available offline".
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@Yamikuronue Well, that changes so much since usually Croatian works so well... oh wait!
Also, if that's the case, why didn't it say
Available in US English only? Surely, people who speak US English will be capable of understanding that sentence?
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@Onyx MFW PEGI 3
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@Onyx said in Only in USA:
Also, if that's the case, why didn't it say Available in US English only?
It was probably written by a native Mandarin speaker.
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People who use an asterisk without putting its partner! :hulk-smash
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@Onyx It seems they expect users to very often need to turn on wifi and/or the flashlight, if that’s two out of three things you can do with offline voice commands. Apparently you can’t turn them off with a voice command, though, nor stop the music from playing.
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@Gurth "Turn off WiFi" just took me to WiFi settings screen, it didn't turn it off... Flashlight seems to work correctly though.
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TBH My experience with anything that is voice that it only works if you have one of those awful American accents. It doesn't work with my Dorset Farmer's accent.
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@Onyx said in Only in USA:
So let me get this straight Google... I can use voice commands that control my device only in the US?
It wouldn't surprise me, I wrote a rant on reddit about that 2 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2a1wz1/google_now_is_basically_a_big_fuck_you_to_anyone/
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@anonymous234 my current ROM broke the always on detection thing when we moved to Marshmallow. It also can't work in front of the lockscreen, even though there's a trigger for it...
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
anything that is voice that it only works if you have one of those awful American accents.
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@Onyx We're gonna build voice recognition. And make the Mexicans pay for it!
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@anonymous234 I have those problems today, with my American phone. Google Now is really hit or miss on non-google devices. I have some bullshit from Motorola to try and make up the difference.
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@Yamikuronue said in Only in USA:
Google Now is really hit or miss
on non-google devices.yeah...
Nexus 6p and Moto 360 both have..... issues with voice commands....
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@Yamikuronue My car makes some interesting mistakes sometimes, too. It's a Ford, running Microsoft Sync.
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
TBH My experience with anything that is voice that it only works if you have one of those awful American accents. It doesn't work with my Dorset Farmer's accent.
Here here. I might just use voice commands if the device would recognise the dialect I speak in daily life — I already feel like a bit of a fool talking to a machine, let alone doing so in standard Dutch.
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@Gurth
Let alone have it figuring out if yelling poepen means you are looking for a toilet or a hooker
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
My experience with anything that is voice that it only works if you have one of those awful American accents.
Understanding Brits is a problem that hasn't been solved by humans yet.
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
It doesn't work with my Dorset Farmer's accent.
Maybe those remaining pirates should learn to speak proper American English. You know, it would have been horrible if each nation had a separate language for math. The language of computers (specially phones) is American English.
Filed Under:ASCII for embedded devices
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@dse How about you get fucked because you didn't invent the language, hint the English did. I speak English properly, the fact is that American's don't know how to speak it properly because as you say they "speak American English". I am sure Spanish people from Sevilla complain the same about those in South American countries and The Parisians complain about Canadian French ... if you wanna start that shit.
:D
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@lucas1 I believe at one point (may have been a few years ago) there was a university study that found that American English is actually closer to older traditional English than modern British English is.
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@Maciejasjmj This is the funny thing about this. Not all people from the US can understand me easily but I can understand all English speakers easily, except Gambia with a stutter (my friend babocar has a Gambia accent with a stutter) ... :-)
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@Erufael The point is that in an area that is smaller than the US state we speak loads of different accents and we all understand one another. In our not so Great United Kingdom
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BTW this is how my father sounds when drunk ...
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Jesus I didn't know we had a tourist video. It sounds like it is sang in Irish FFS.
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@Maciejasjmj I will guarantee if you met me you would spend a least a month asking other English people what I mean by:
- A "block" ... "bloke" .. "man"
- A cacker ... "chav" ... "redneck"
- A cunt .. "cunt" .. "cunt"
:D
BTW Cacker is said like this
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
@dse How about you get fucked because you didn't invent the language, hint the English did.
The English invented
as well but it doesn't mean you're better than everyone else at it.
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@julmu It isn't quite the same thing is it?
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@coldandtired said in Only in USA:
People who use an asterisk without putting its partner! :hulk-smash
you missed the partner : on purpose, right?
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@fbmac Well, if Google's doing it...
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
Jesus I didn't know we had a tourist video. It sounds like it is sang in Irish FFS.
Sounds like fairly plain English to me. You sure it's not you that's got a wonky idea of proper English? ;)
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@Erufael said in Only in USA:
@lucas1 I believe at one point (may have been a few years ago) there was a university study that found that American English is actually closer to older traditional English than modern British English is.
Eh, sort of. American English is closer in some ways, RP closer in others. It's similar to biological evolution: they've both diverged from the common ancestor in different ways.
Related, Shakespeare in OP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
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@Erufael said in Only in USA:
older traditional English
Which one? There were lots of them, and they weren't just different in terms of accents, but were different dialects entirely.
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@Dreikin Sounds like Irish to me.
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@lucas1 said in Only in USA:
Sounds like Irish to me.
Unless she's a redhead drinking Guinness I'm not interested
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