May

2011

Best Of Both Worlds For Sprint Customers And Google Voice Thanks To XDA Member

by Joe Sirianni
tagged Google, Sprint, voice, voicemail

Not everyone on Sprint is going gaga for Google’s voice integration. XDA member zikronix had this to say on the subject (unedited): Ok so I orginally thought the idea of GV integration with sprint was awesome…after fiddling with it. I was very disappointed. The problems I had with it were…I dont want to use my [...]

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May

2011

Google Voice Integration With All Sprint Numbers is Now Live

by Michael Murphy
tagged Google, integration, Sprint, voice

Sprint and Google have been beta-testing a full integration of Google Voice with the Sprint network over the past several weeks, and today the service has been declared “live.” Sprint customers can now use their Sprint number to run all of their Google Voice services, allowing them to set the phone to ring at multiple [...]

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Jan

2011

Google Allows Number Porting to All Google Voice Accounts

by Michael Murphy
tagged Google, Number Porting, voice

A few days ago, we discovered that Google allowed number porting into Google Voice on limited accounts, for a very short down. Within hours, however, the service was no longer available. If that’s the one thing you’ve been desperately waiting for to make your Google Voice account everything you’ve ever wanted, you’ll be happy to [...]

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Dec

2010

Yahoo! IM update brings voice calls to HTC Evo 4G and MT4G

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, app, chat, IM, video, voice, Yahoo

According to rumor, the Yahoo! IM app for Android is getting an update this month that will allow for both voice calla and landscape video calling. While this isn’t the most groundbreaking update, it’s still nice to see Yahoo! continue to support their IM app the way they should. Hoever, don’t get your hopes up [...]

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Dec

2010

Feel the love from Google as they go Personal with Voice Search

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, app, application, Google, personal, personalization, Search, update, voice

Voice search, a relatively new idea of two years, has made major strides. The newest version works with Android 2.2, better known as Froyo. Google’s desires were beyond their capabilities until this moment. Using speech models, Google hopes to identify with its customers on a personal level by accommodating Android enthusiasts around the world regardless [...]

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Nov

2010

Samsung Galaxy Tab on AT&T, Rogers, Bell hacked for voice calls

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, AT&T, Bell, calls, canada, galaxy, hack, hacks, Rogers, Samsung, tab, tablet, USA, voice, XDA

Remember last week, when some clever hackers at xda-developers got voice calling functional on the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Tab? Well, they’re back with more. It would seem that, with the release of the Tab on AT&T comes the voice call hack for the very same tablet, and xda has the inside scoop on how to [...]

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Oct

2010

Google demo slam launches, shows off Android and Droid X

by Dustin Karnes
tagged actions, Android, bunny, chubby, demo, droid, droidx, Google, marshmallow, moto, motorola, ollie, Search, skateboarding, slam, voice, x

Over at Google, they’ve launched a new site called “demo slam“. The site lets users send in videos showing off Google’s technology in real life, and puts them up against other user videos doing the same. So, naturally, we’re seeing a lot of Android goodness, and it also seems that everyone is using a Droid [...]

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Oct

2010

Google’s Voice search now supports Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish

by Chris Moor
tagged czech, foreign, Google, language, polish, russian, seach, support, turkish, voice

I know I’ve impressed a few friends with the voice search feature on my Android phone. Whenever I did such a feat, I always thought to myself “Man, if only my Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish friends could use this feature in their native language.” I know you probably thought the same thing. Well thankfully, [...]

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Sep

2010

25% of Android searches are by voice, Google launches new YT channel

by Chris Moor
tagged Google Voice, voice, youtube

While I can’t say that I frequently use the voice search feature of Android, apparently there are a lot of people that do. According to the latest post in the Google Mobile blog, one of every four searches from an Android phone is by voice. (In case you flunked math 1/4 = 25%) That’s a [...]

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Sep

2010

How does Google’s Voice Action work? Let’s look at the code

by Chris Moor
tagged code, Google, intent, Search, voice

Google’s Voice Actions in their voice search on Android are pretty slick. Being able to play a song with a phrase is definitely a time-saver for most people. But how exactly does the code work? I’m no code-monkey, but Tim Bray explains how they used a new Intent to accomplish it. Here’s a brief explanation [...]

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