241118 PIP wrong voice language selection

Xkliburi

MihaiFlorin As I said, it works fine for me in Waze.

surfer63

MihaiFlorin
That was on the version before the 241118. In above posts you can read that both @gismo and myself did set the app language in Maps to Dutch (and German for @gismo).
It doesn' t make a difference. It only listens to English and it did work fine at least on 241008 and before.
It is a bug.

gismo

surfer63 actually it still works for me in 241222 if I set the GMaps app language to German, as described above. I only have the problem if I set GMaps to system language (which is German as well but then it only understands English).
Still a bug as it should honour the system language setting.

Xkliburi

gismo I hadn't understood this answer well. I had the Maps language set to "System Default" in that option. I set it to "Spanish" and Maps now understands me when I speak to it. Thanks.

surfer63

Xkliburi
I see that you are on the 241222 version.
It really doesn' t work for me. I just tested again.
It doesn' t work on 241224 (beta, not publicly available), and before that on 241222.
As soon as I get a new firmware it is really literally the first thing I test and it is literally my most used option before on my 7862 and in the first releases on my dudu7.
So strange (but good for you).

surfer63

It doesn' t work for me.
I have my Google Maps app language on Dutch. I have my Android system language on Dutch. It only understands English. Google Maps texts and menus are entirely in Dutch.

If I set my app language to "system" it is still Dutch (System (Nederlands)) and then it doesn't work at all. I see the 5 Google bars "wave" to indicate that it receives audio, but it doesn't resolve anything. It times out and then gives suggestions in English, even though system language is recognized as Dutch.
The screen text and menu themselves are indeed in Dutch, but in this case voice search doesn' t get anything at all.

surfer63

And it functions again. Don' t ask me how and why.
App language was on Dutch and still is on Dutch. I am still on 3.5 and did not upgrade to 3.6 after the many issues, also on VAG (VW, Skoda, Seat) based cars.
Last Tuesday I tried voice search again and it worked again.
The only thing I did was switch from dual PIP to miminalistic mode (3 PIP windows). I only realize that now that I am typing it.
Tomorrow I will switch back to dual PIP and try again.

Slavus

Unfortunately, the Polish language is not available in Google Assistant or Gemini for Google Maps voice search. Theoretically, it can be set, but English is used during searches. I can change it to German, Dutch or another language, for example, and it works correctly in the selected language. If I change Google Maps to Polish, it works in English, regardless of whether it is in PIP or the application is turned on full screen. When I had the Mekede M600s, voice search in maps worked in Polish. What can I do about it?

gismo

surfer63 Not sure if I should tag the support team again but this bug should be fixed properly. It also occurs on my DUDU5 (secondary unit) and that offers no workaround through app languages as it's Android 10...

surfer63

And Yesterday and today it didn' t function anymore, again. It is very annoying. Rebooting doesn't help either.
There is something inconsistent and I do not know what it is (yet).

Edit: Was 2 days on the road. Didn' t see above messages.

Slavus

For Dudu7 with DuduOS 3.5 I did a full data reset and now it works fine. Without having to select the language in maps, voice search works correctly in Polish.

gismo

Slavus Did you backup/restore and if so what did you use? Or configured as new?
It's a bit hard to understand why this reset makes a difference: My Dudu7 hat earlier fimwares, ok. But my Dudu5 started with v3.5 so was configured as new and still shows this error.
I'd prefer guidance from DUDUAUTO as to what part of a configuration should be reset. It's easier to work from a reset of Google Services than the entire device...

surfer63

Slavus
I also mentioned earlier that it didn't work and suddenly it did again, after switching to minimalist mode.
Now it doesn't function anymore and believe me: I did switch a couple of times from single-pip to dual-pip to minimalistic mode (triple-pip) in several combinations.
A complete factory reset only for Google speech service should be completely unnecessary.

Next to that: Those full firmware resets were necessary on FYT and other Chinese units, because of the Chinese terrible upgrade methods for their own software thereby corrupting settings, letting the software crash. The firmware reset was ONLY necessary for the standard Android unit software. Never for Google certified and approved software from the Play Store, let alone Google's own software.

Slavus

I have no idea what the difference is between the previous installation and the current one. After buying Dudu7 I immediately did an OTA update, then an update and installation of the applications I use, I recently noticed a language error in voice search in PIP. I decided to reset the software not only for this reason, the second is the problem of installation and license for the Automapa application, which I have purchased in the Google Play Store, and which I did not experience with the Mekede M600s. After resetting the data, the only application that I skipped when installing mine was Google Assistant. I have no idea whether it was the fault of the Assistant itself or Google Services. I did not make backups, apart from a copy of the settings and EQ settings for the Dudu account.

Slavus

I think I found the reason for the incorrect voice search. In maps, as I wrote after a factory data reset, the operation was correct, i.e. the system language is used. In the Google application as well. The problem remained in the Google Play Store. While browsing Google settings, I looked into Speech Recognition & Synthesis. In the downloaded offline languages, there is only English (US) and you can't download any other language, like on my phone. I decided to update the Speech Recognition & Synthesis application and after that, the Google Maps search in PIP was again in English. Then I uninstalled all Speech Recognition updates and I am again happy with searching in the default system language, even in the Google Play Store. Try it on your own and let me know. I did not install Google Assistant at all, after testing I only added Gemini.
I think, that deeveloper should delete pre-installed English (US) offline language - this will be solution for everyone.