Nexus One (Speak2Text) feature in Desire???

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Hi
Just wondering if Desire will have same Nexus One (Speak-2-enter-text in text msgs & Google Maps etc) feature on it, plus all other cool features in N1 (as I don't own N1, nor I have used any Android phone yet so don't know if these features are in Android build or only for N1).
Can we also start a poll to take member's opinion which phone they think is better between HTC Desire & Nexus One...

Thanks
K7

None of the features are N1 only they're just features of Android 2.1 which is what the Desire runs on

According to cnet, the voice to text function is not there (out of the box)
guess it wouldn't be long before someone makes it happen

is an internet connection required for the speech2text function?

You could just install the stock android keyboard to the device to use it.

Although HTC's is incredibly accurate and seems to be able to predict exactly what you want no matter how ****ed up you mish mash at the keys

So while HTC Desire's Sense Keyboard does not support Voice to Text, the user can (without modding) switch to Android Keyboard and enjoy speech to text? Please can you confirm that? I was about to un-desire Desire because I so much expect to use S2T for posting online.

Originally Posted by raynerape

So while HTC Desire's Sense Keyboard does not support Voice to Text, the user can (without modding) switch to Android Keyboard and enjoy speech to text? Please can you confirm that? I was about to un-desire Desire because I so much expect to use S2T for posting online.

Assuming you can install the android keyboard without root, yes. One can install other keyboards without root (swype for example) so i don't see why the stock android keyboard would be any different.

There is something else to keep in mind. Just because you might be able to install the keyboard, the actual underlying support may have been removed. I don't have the desire rom installed on my nexus anymore or I would check to see if speech to text abilities were even there.

Originally Posted by deprecate

Assuming you can install the android keyboard without root, yes. One can install other keyboards without root (swype for example) so i don't see why the stock android keyboard would be any different.

There is something else to keep in mind. Just because you might be able to install the keyboard, the actual underlying support may have been removed. I don't have the desire rom installed on my nexus anymore or I would check to see if speech to text abilities were even there.

Speech to text has been there since 1.6 though, for google search and translate.

There is absolutely no reason at all why HTC would remove this they just haven't included it in their keyboard.

This means that the ability to get Speech to Text is already there embeded in the phone, you just need a keyboard with the "Speech to Text" button to make use of it in messaging.

As I m spending well few hours everyday 2 decide about which one

I should get Desire r N1... It's so tough 2 decide 1 of these 2 devices

as I like few things in N1 & few in Desire........ Text 2 Speech is

some thing I don't wan2 compromise on (I've read some where

that T2S is not very accurate at the moment but I m still so

fascinated by it), so if there is no such function available in

Desire....then I will go 4 N1.

Originally Posted by K 7

As I m spending well few hours everyday 2 decide about which one

I should get Desire r N1... It's so tough 2 decide 1 of these 2 devices

as I like few things in N1 & few in Desire........ Text 2 Speech is

some thing I don't wan2 compromise on (I've read some where

that T2S is not very accurate at the moment but I m still so

fascinated by it), so if there is no such function available in

Desire....then I will go 4 N1.

If this functionality isn't present in the Desire upon release am I correct in assuming that someone will release a ROM where this is possible?
and also if its true that its just the keyboard that needs replacing is that something you need root to do? or can you just install a new keyboard? (Bit of a noob here)