It works relatively well for everything except reading text messages. When I try to read one, the following error message appears: “Voice commands not available.”The same thing happens if I press the microphone on the screen to dictate a command.
I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find a solution.
Has anyone else had this problem or found a solution?
I’d post to a still open and longer Android Auto thread to asks AA users what worked for them.
As I understand, your question isn’t merely about TTS apps, but being able to voice command/navigate your way through messenger and then let a speech engine read out an individual message?
Dicio can do some commands and general speech input: “navigate to paris” will open the default Navigation and show Paris, but it will have issues recognizing country specific places or do anything beyond basic (“route from here to paris” will not work), you’ll need low expecations - dictation is pretty okay though. It has an “AA support issue” you can track. Did you try to install Google Assistant?
The AA docs will install the Google speech-synthesis package, so I think you do not take issue with the TTS quality. But if you do, SherpaTTS is the current goto for non robotic voice output and can be used from OrganicMaps.
I have already installed Google Assistant, but it still doesn’t work; there is still no way to read text messages.
I wonder if I should create a Google account (I don’t have one) and log in, but that would be completely counterproductive to the very principle of confidentiality that /e/OS provides us with.
For me, the purpose of Android Auto was to be able to “listen” to my text messages when I receive them on the road, but if it doesn’t work, I might as well delete the app, because for music, Bluetooth is more than enough, and the GPS app provided by Murena on my /e/xel 5 (Pixel 5 ) is very efficient in my point of view and suits me perfectly for my use.
in principle any App content can be read back via Androids Accessibility feature TalkBack (though do not enable, it’s hard to disable), but there’s no App to steer by voice command.
Can’t unearth issues at qksms (dormant since a long time) or thunderbird-mail (ex k9, upstream origin of /e/ Mailapp) that go much into the topic of voice assistance. TalkBack to some extent, but that is not what regular users can handle. It’s easy to get Dicio start the App with some initial intent, but no idea how to navigate past that.
One foss community that does alot in terms of voice command is the Home Assistant camp, but it’s a different beast.
I’d like to know if these features (text to speech or speech to text) works for someone on android auto with /e/os?
Android auto is great on the car for GPS (larger view), and it would be pratical for safety reason if listening received text messages and answering by voice could work.
) is very efficient in my point of view and suits me perfectly for my use.