Venu 3 will there be a voice reply option for notifications?

I got the venu 3 not long ago i love it for the battery life and its fitness tracking capabilities but one thing thats really bothering me is the ability to reply to notifications with voice, the t9 keyboard is crap and will take forever to use it and not Practical when working out. The ability to just use your voice to respond would be way better and practical to use.

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MOO5E over 1 year ago +1

The T9 is good but it has 2 drawbacks:

1 it needs to be the same layout as the old phones, so the alphabet starts on the top row middle button and symbols are on the top row left button

2 it needs predictive…
5605851 over 1 year ago in reply to PRK91 +1

i dont think a voice to text option would hurt battery life more than already using the voice assistance feature.
Scott 6 months ago in reply to 6195140 +1

Only Wear OS will be deeply integrated into Android. Don't get a Garmin watch expecting it to behave like a Pixel watch, get a Pixel watch if that's what you want.

It's a bit dramatic to call a…

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0 Scott over 1 year ago

If the Assistant is working, which it mostly does not for me, you can reply to a text message by using it. Say something like "text Mary mobile" and you can reply that way.

0 5605851 over 1 year ago in reply to Scott

I mean for when u get notifications on your watch you have the option to reply straight from there with precreated text or t9. There should be a voice to text option

0 Scott over 1 year ago in reply to 5605851

Yes, I know. Just offering a workaround that'll achieve the result.

0 5605851 over 1 year ago in reply to Scott

The voice assistant only works via text message for me, anything else i try to send a message on wont work itl say, i cant send a message on "app name" yet . I have google assistant.

0 Scott over 1 year ago in reply to 5605851

Yes, I see. Assistant only works with the phone's messaging app. I hadn't thought of other messaging apps because I don't use them.

0 Al P over 1 year ago in reply to Scott

You can also use it with WhatsApp. If you have a Samsung phone you have to enable it, see www.reddit.com/.../

0 PRK91 over 1 year ago

I personally like the T9 keyboard, brings back old memories. For voice reply, I don't think we will get that option, as that might consume more battery, not to mention it has to be trained to get the speech accurately, Google didn't master voice dictation in 1 day. And so the only workaround is to use the assistant and ask it to text this person on WhatsApp.

Having said that, Garmin would definitely not do anything at the expense of battery. It is one of their strongholds and they would keep it that way.

0 MOO5E over 1 year ago

The T9 is good but it has 2 drawbacks:

1 it needs to be the same layout as the old phones, so the alphabet starts on the top row middle button and symbols are on the top row left button

2 it needs predictive text, not tap tap tap to get to c etc.

0 5605851 over 1 year ago in reply to MOO5E

id be fine if they just add predictive text. whats the point of the t9 keyboard anyways? you will spend more time trying to respond through t9 than actually taking ur phone out and typing. its useless if u want to send a message when working out or cant use ur hands, thats why voice to text would help

0 5605851 over 1 year ago in reply to PRK91

i dont think a voice to text option would hurt battery life more than already using the voice assistance feature.