[FortressBB10]

I thought my bluetooth earpiece was causing this, but it appears not. When I dictate text in an email or something else it beeps once to tell me to start talking but then beeps a second time to tell me it's finished listening.

Has anyone had this happen or have any ideas? (I know it's a discontinued OS, 3G is ending and that death will soon take us all. My question does not pertain to that, thanks.)

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[conite]

I thought my bluetooth earpiece was causing this, but it appears not. When I dictate text in an email or something else it beeps once to tell me to start talking but then beeps a second time to tell me it's finished listening.

Has anyone had this happen or have any ideas? (I know it's a discontinued OS, 3G is ending and that death will soon take us all. My question does not pertain to that, thanks.)

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When was the last time you had this working?

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

Has it been working for you?

I know there was some trick about changing the BlackBerry Assistants language, close the app and change it back and that would get it working again. But when the killed off some the the Assistants "smarts"... it just quite working right for me. And was never as accurate as more advanced dictation assistants.

[Chuck Finley69]

I have a couple three ideas but they’re all related to:

It's a discontinued OS and death will take us all.
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[FortressBB10]

When was the last time you had this working?

Maybe 2-4 months ago. The dictation function worked great for me. It was very accurate. Google's Android version was pathetic next to BB10. I couldn't believe it's suggestions. Rap stars' name instead of the words their names played off of.

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[conite]

Maybe 2-4 months ago. The dictation function worked great for me. It was very accurate. Google's Android version was pathetic next to BB10. I couldn't believe it's suggestions. Rap stars' name instead of the words their names played off of.

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You sure about that 2-4 months?

Mine flat out doesn't work, and I don't believe it has since they shut down the assistant servers a couple of years back.

[FortressBB10]

You sure about that 2-4 months?

Mine flat out doesn't work, and I don't believe it has since they shut down the assistant servers a couple of years back.

I am sure I've used dictation within 2 years. Calendar entries and Internet searches by voice, not so much.

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[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

Maybe 2-4 months ago. The dictation function worked great for me. It was very accurate. Google's Android version was pathetic next to BB10. I couldn't believe it's suggestions. Rap stars' name instead of the words their names played off of.

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Thing is it wasn't BlackBerry's... which is why the legal stuff explained 3rd parties would have access to your voice recordings, contacts, location services - which got some all in a tizzy back in the day. I know to answer questions it used services from Wolfram Alpha. But not sure if the dictation features used the same data sources or if that was another solution. In the end BlackBerry didn't have the means of competing with Apple, Android and MS. So they outsourced a lot of BB10's inner workings.

Just know it didn't work well after the shutdown... years ago.

[FortressBB10]

You sure about that 2-4 months?

Mine flat out doesn't work, and I don't believe it has since they shut down the assistant servers a couple of years back.

When you say it doesn't work, what do you mean? How is it failing?

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[conite]

When you say it doesn't work, what do you mean? How is it failing?

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"Unable to begin voice dictation. Please try again."

[nevilleadaniels]

I thought my bluetooth earpiece was causing this, but it appears not. When I dictate text in an email or something else it beeps once to tell me to start talking but then beeps a second time to tell me it's finished listening.

Has anyone had this happen or have any ideas? (I know it's a discontinued OS, 3G is ending and that death will soon take us all. My question does not pertain to that, thanks.)

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Have you tried switching to the internal voice to text

[FortressBB10]

Have you tried switching to the internal voice to text

How do you do that? Never done that.

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[nevilleadaniels]

How do you do that? Never done that.

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Oops I have Key2 and not BB10.
Main settings cogwheel in dropdown menu
Scroll down to system
Languages and Input
Keyboard settings
Google Voice second should show itself on the screen if not select the managed choice and add Google Voice.
If Google Voice shows then you will need to go to the BlackBerry keyboard settings.

Advanced. Scroll down to bottom enable built-in voice command.

Restart.

Repeat the procedure and disable built-in voice command.
That should do the trick

[conite]

Main settings cogwheel in dropdown menu
Scroll down to system
Languages and Input
Keyboard settings
Google Voice second should show itself on the screen if not select the managed choice and add Google Voice.
If Google Voice shows then you will need to go to the BlackBerry keyboard settings.

Advanced. Scroll down to bottom enable built-in voice command.

Restart.

Repeat the procedure and disable built-in voice command.
That should do the trick

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