Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Android/HTC Droid Incredible speech to text cutting off last word

I've noticed that that the speech to text feature for my HTC Droid Incredible 4G suddenly started acting up about a week ago.

Some symptoms :
- Saying a sentence will result in everything but the last word showing up in the text box, effectively cutting of the last word. Pressing "done" will make the last word will show up in the text box.
- When you pause and start to speak again, the sentence you just said gets overwritten.
- Trying to use(say) punctuation usually results in the sentence being deleted unless you say it right after the sentence quickly. The pause is probably the issue.


I've looked online and I can't find anyone complaining about this issue, maybe I wasn't using the right search terms.

Few search terms I tried:
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I thought it was just my phone so I did a factory reset to try to fix it, but that did nothing and but waste a lot of time putting everything back.

Finally, I gave up and called HTC. It seems it's a known issue that they are working on a fix. At this point I'm not sure if effects the only the Droid Incredible, all HTC, or all android phones.

Hopefully someone finds this blog post and avoids thinking they did something that screwed up their phone, or wastes time doing a factory reset to try to fix it.

If you do find a solution, please comment and let me know!

That Guy