Found voice to text in the user manual !

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I looked into the user manual that was uploaded by user "redmongoose":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...05&postcount=5

Page 70

And see what I found (see attached image).

I think this will be enabled on HTC retail version, but not on T-Mobile version.

Probably ...

PS: To get the manual: Connect you phone to a PC, Mount the SD Card and there you will find the manual

Originally Posted by gogol

I looked into the user manual that was uploaded by user "redmongoose":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...05&postcount=5

Page 70

And see what I found (see attached image).

I think this will be enabled on HTC retail version, but not on T-Mobile version.

Probably ...

PS: To get the manual: Connect you phone to a PC, Mount the SD Card and there you will find the manual

Loool that was fast!!!

great ... I hope what ur saying is true thanx for sharing

so it seems that T-mobile version is kind of like a pre-retail for everyother provider?

Nice find!

Originally Posted by cez10

so it seems that T-mobile version is kind of like a pre-retail for everyother provider?

That would make sense as Vodafone in the Netherlands are getting them 14-15th of April.

I think the screenshot in the manual is showing an early version of the desire ROM, but was later removed. The manual doesn't seem to describe it anywhere as a feature.

There's a page on slashgear (search for Desire vs Nexus, I'm a new user so can't provide link) where somebody has left a comment suggesting that voice to text is currently exclusive to the Nexus, hence I think it was there in the desire rom but had to be disabled.

Originally Posted by Mister-C

I think the screenshot in the manual is showing an early version of the desire ROM, but was later removed. The manual doesn't seem to describe it anywhere as a feature.

There's a page on slashgear (search for Desire vs Nexus, I'm a new user so can't provide link) where somebody has left a comment suggesting that voice to text is currently exclusive to the Nexus, hence I think it was there in the desire rom but had to be disabled.

Welcome aboard!

There is a thread about this here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=650076 which includes a link to the video you refer to.

I cannot think any single reason why such feature is removed when it was there before.

As I understood, the voice to text is a standard feature of Android 2.1, and not HTC.

How about the past HTC android 2.1 devices such as HTC Legend?

Is it not compatible with the HTC sense UI?

Someone should try this custom HTC keyboard, it has voice-to-text and other enhancements:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416

Btw, probably we need to email HTC and/or T-Mobile to have clarification about this once and for all.

Originally Posted by Mister-C

I think the screenshot in the manual is showing an early version of the desire ROM, but was later removed. The manual doesn't seem to describe it anywhere as a feature.

There's a page on slashgear (search for Desire vs Nexus, I'm a new user so can't provide link) where somebody has left a comment suggesting that voice to text is currently exclusive to the Nexus, hence I think it was there in the desire rom but had to be disabled.

I won't be surprised if this feature was disabled in HTC Desire and Legend. One reason comes to my mind is the lack of the extra mic for noise cancellation, as it must help in voice-to-text working properly in certain conditions.

Nevertheless, even if that was the case, I'm sure as soon as Desire roms start cooking, this will be the first thing we'll see.

But I am wondering how clicking on that "voice-to-text/settings" button would work? is it going to be a 2-clicks process to activate? that kind of sux!

Originally Posted by bcmobile

Welcome aboard!

There is a thread about this here which includes a link to the video you refer to.

Glad to be here! I'll be even gladder when Clove deliver my Sim free handset...

The vid in the link relates to a Nexus phone, so this muddies things a little. However, I've seen other vids from the MWC showing that the keyboard on the Desire did indeed at one point have the mic icon on it.

Some people are speculating that retail/sim only units with have the feature enabled, but I don't think that will happen. As said above, I think it was simply that even though V2T is a standard feature of Android 2.1, it probably wasn't very effective without the noise cancellation hardware.

Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see just how well the Desire can do this - I've seen some videos of the V2T in action on the Nexus and its quite impressive.