I am having trouble getting my new phone to read my text messages through my bluetooth helmet. My old phone just worked when I paired them together. The new one plays music and phone calls but I can't get it to speak the texts. I could dictate and send texts through the helmet and receive texts, which was pretty handy.
I've searched the googles and played with some settings on the phone but nothing works.
It's a Droid Turbo 2. Any suggestions?
I do not typically have texts read to me so I have no personal experience but...
Have you tried the Google Now function?
With this on you can create a trained keyphrase like "Okay Goggle, Now..." and then continue with "read my texts" or "send a text to Jane"
In reply to JohnRW1621:
I'll look into that.
It's weird that my very old windows phone simply worked. But the new phone won't do it without some type of app.
Well Google now isn't really some type of app. It's built into the android operating system. It should do what you're wanting to do. You just have to set it up.
In reply to clutchsmoke:
I told you I was too dumb for this phone.
I can't find anything on the phone about Google now. I'll work on it late I guess. Although it should just work like my old one did.
I have nothing constructive to add.
For some reason this was the first thing to come to mind after reading the thread title.
As much as I appreciate music on the bike.....texting? on a motorcycle?
Dude....phone on airplane mode and enjoy the ride.
Nick (picaso) Comstock wrote: In reply to clutchsmoke: I told you I was too dumb for this phone. I can't find anything on the phone about Google now. I'll work on it late I guess. Although it should just work like my old one did.
Im on Android 6. Here is how I would enact the Google Now capabilities.
Settings
Language
Google voice typing
OK Google Now detection
OK, got it working on the phone. I'll have to try it with the Bluetooth this evening once I charge my helmet. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to access them. I don't know if it will alert me when I receive a new text though. I hope it works like the old one did.
Thanks John!
Close but no cigar.
I will get an audible alert when a text comes in but I can't do anything about it.
"OK Google" doesn't work when the screen is locked and off like when it's in my jacket pocket. If I touch the screen it will work but that's really hard to do when you're doing 75 and the phone is in your jacket pocket. Plus it absolutely kills the battery life when You have it set to be on from the lock screen.
I never had to set anything up at all with my old phone. It just worked.
Here is a typical scenario.
Rolling along listening to Pandora, I would get a text alert.
A voice would say "You have a new text from Kalyn. Would you like to read it or ignore it?"
I would say "Read it"
The voice would say "Sure, The message says will you please stop and pick up a gallon of milk. Would you like to reply or are you finished?"
I would say "reply"
The voice would say "sure what would you like to say?"
I would say "Okay"
The voice would say "your message is Okay, would you like to send it?"
I would say "send it"
All without ever having to touch the phone.
Now when I get home without a gallon of milk I get lectured for ten minutes and have to go back out in the hundred degree heat to get said gallon of milk because I never got the text.
Here's a reddit thread discussing some options for doing this on Android:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/29zceg/what_app_do_you_use_to_read_and_respond_to_texts/
I have a Cardo Scala rider, a Galaxy S5, and am having a similar issue that I didn't know I had until I read this thread. I'd like to be able to have text to speech and speech to text enabled via BT.
Can I have an app that reads my texts to me and respond verbally without allowing unfettered access to every single thing on the entire device? Google Now is too intrusive and creepy as berkeley. I just want something that can look up a contact, use the mic, the audio, send a text and play them back. No, I do not want it to be able to use the camera, gps, device id, SD card, access all of my accounts, read my browser history, allow in app purchases, interpret my dreams or analyze my brain waves. Just the minimum permissions to do the job.
In reply to Huckleberry:
Buy an old ass windows phone. That's what I had previously.
Just about everything you can buy that does speech-to-text these days does so by sending a recording of your voice off to a data center to be processed...it saves power and space vs. doing it on the device, and sadly it gets a better result because the companies that do this processing have a zillion samples to work with and people whose full-time jobs are to make their company better at it.
So I'd also be interested if there's a privacy-friendly option that you don't have to cobble together yourself.
I have a moto x, so settings may be different... But look for the moto app. It may have the voice & car mode that has the settings you are looking for.
I pretty much just push things and stuff happens on my phone...sometimes even what I want it to do!
Technology is grand
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