voice command not announcing incoming calls

[Technology1]

I had to set her back to "7", she was too loud for me...{lol}

[Ana Z]

Originally Posted by Technology1

This works great with or without BT, if the S2A feature is on your phone, it lowers "Miss Bowtron's" voice... I removed S2A and set her to "9" now, she is the loudest mouth in club, works like a charm...{LOL}

what is S2A???? Mine is not loud...i can hear, but i want louder....

[82tarheel]

Originally Posted by Technology1

Edit this registry key:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\TTSAnnounce\Category
Change from VoiceCommand1 to Ring

As originally stated, it works, but sounds level is low. To increase the sound level, I did this edit:

HKCU\Control Panel\Sound Categories\Voice Command1\AttenutationCategory

I set it to 4 which is decent, you can go to 5, but I see no difference going louder. Using 0 or 1 will make it whisper quiet.

If that does not make it louder, then edit:
HKCU\Control Panel\Sound Categories\Ring\AttenutationCategory

Same thing, set to 4 or 5.

I didn't have to make any changes to InitVol registry settings as previous people stated.

Now the phone will speak callers name and phone type (IE, "home"), if my BT headset is enabled then it will spreak it over the headset instead.

I also like it better when "Michelle" talks a little slower, as previously stated that can be changed by editing:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Voices \DefaultTTSRate

Mine defaulted to 5, I dropped it to 1 which is normal/slightly slow talking. I think I might bump it up to 2 at some point.

Thanks a million guy this works like charm, you call the voice lady Michelle, her real name is "Miss Bowtron", I saw her in the club last night with her loud mouth, but looking good, {LOL}, anyway she is too loud on my phone now.... Just about everybody has been trying to figure out to make "Miss Bowtron" voice louder and you came up with the perfect hack to make "Miss Bowtron" too loud, again thanks a million. Oh! By the way, I got her set to "7", that's loud...{LOL}

Want to try this but can't figure out how to get where I need to get. I have PHM RegEdit, TouchCommand & Resco File explorer if someone could give me quick lesson that would be great

[Dr.8820]

Originally Posted by 82tarheel

Want to try this but can't figure out how to get where I need to get. I have PHM RegEdit, TouchCommand & Resco File explorer if someone could give me quick lesson that would be great

use phm regedit. when you first open it, it should say my device with a plus. click the plus and four options are available. click the plus by hkey_current_user and follow all the directions from the post you quoted and you are good to go. if you need more help, post back here.

[82tarheel]

Originally Posted by mr8820

use phm regedit. when you first open it, it should say my device with a plus. click the plus and four options are available. click the plus by hkey_current_user and follow all the directions from the post you quoted and you are good to go. if you need more help, post back here.

sorry but I still cant find it I got where you pointed me but could not find anything else btw whats the number between 5 & 7

[WanderingMinstrel]

[QUOTE=reefland;806140]
If your incoming announcements don't play, it's likely that VC is still working fine. You can test this by looking for this file on your device using FileExplorer.

My Device\Application Data\Volatile\TSCallerID.wav

Double tap the file to play it in Media Player, it should speak out the contents of it (last caller). If this works, then you know Voice Commander is working fine, its the phone not playing it.


Thanks reefland! Your info is excellent. I have an interesting situation though.

My VC works perfectly for everything except incoming call announcements. When I went to My Device\Application Data\Volatile\, there was no TSCallerID.wav file. Just one IEMoPageOver file and a lot of XMEInst01 files. That's probably at least part of the problem.

Any thoughts on how to get a TSCallerID.wav to drop into the folder?

[dallas contractor]

Are u sure you have incoming calls checked in VC settings? I would think that the file would be created if this was set in VC.

[WanderingMinstrel]

Originally Posted by dallas contractor

Are u sure you have incoming calls checked in VC settings? I would think that the file would be created if this was set in VC.

Yes. All VC options are checked in the VC settings, including incoming calls on the secondary page. I tried deselecting and rechecking the phone options but nothing new showed up in the Volatile folder. Possibly a new unsolvable mystery.

[brannonz]

I was having problems with this reg fix too. Three things that helped:

1) Make sure you have your phone set to announce incoming calls through the phone's speaker if you aren't using bluetooth. That was my first mistake. I had checked it once, but somehow during a reset it got set back to "Bluetooth Only."

2) For some strange reason my phone had an extra slash in the following key:

My Device\Application Data\Volatile\\TSCallerID.wav

I changed it to the following. Not sure if it helped or not (maybe it can recognize double "\"):

My Device\Application Data\Volatile\TSCallerID.wav

3) Make sure you in the Voice Command settings that you don't have it set to announce calls only during free times. Otherwise, if your phone has you scheduled for a meeting or event you won't hear the command come through.

Hope this helps.

[kristin]

Originally Posted by reefland

I'm using Yay 4 Juggs image which does not include voice command. I manually installed version MSVC1.6.19214 to device, I don't recommend using storage card. Every manual install I have tried always has a failure message, just click OK, and continue on. After a screen or two it states installation was sucessful. Once installed, I do a soft reset.

First see if Voice Commands even works, run the executable from Start/Programs or FileExplorer manually look for the EXE file named "voicecmd.exe" located in either "\Program Files\MS Voice Command" or sometimes "\Windows".

Once you run it you should get a beep and should have a microphone icon. It will only last for a few seconds, say the world "help". The phone should respond by speaking the name of available help topics. If not, try running it again. Hold the phone about 9 inches from your mouth, no need to try and eat the thing.

If your incoming announcements don't play, it's likely that VC is still working fine. You can test this by looking for this file on your device using FileExplorer.

My Device\Application Data\Volatile\TSCallerID.wav

Double tap the file to play it in Media Player, it should speak out the contents of it (last caller). If this works, then you know Voice Commander is working fine, its the phone not playing it.

As stated before, this registry edit gets announcements to work:

Edit this registry key:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\TTSAnnounce\Category
Change from VoiceCommand1 to Ring

As originally stated, it works, but sounds level is low. To increase the sound level, I did this edit:

HKCU\Control Panel\Sound Categories\Voice Command1\AttenutationCategory

I set it to 4 which is decent, you can go to 5, but I see no difference going louder. Using 0 or 1 will make it whisper quiet.

If that does not make it louder, then edit:
HKCU\Control Panel\Sound Categories\Ring\AttenutationCategory

Same thing, set to 4 or 5.

I didn't have to make any changes to InitVol registry settings as previous people stated.

Now the phone will speak callers name and phone type (IE, "home"), if my BT headset is enabled then it will spreak it over the headset instead.

I also like it better when "Michelle" talks a little slower, as previously stated that can be changed by editing:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Voices \DefaultTTSRate

Mine defaulted to 5, I dropped it to 1 which is normal/slightly slow talking. I think I might bump it up to 2 at some point.

Yay I finallyh got it working! i just did a Google search for MSVC1.6.19214, downloaded it and installed it to my phone. My phone said there was an error and restarted itself. Then I redid the registry edits and voila! The edits to make it louder did not increase the volume at all and the edit to make it slower didn't work either. But I am going to keep playing around with it and see if I can figure it out.