First of all let me state that even though my phone is a Lumia 535 I decided to post in the general Windows 10 mobile forum because I don't think this is a model-specific issue.
When I bought that little piece of awesomeness one month ago it was running Windows Phone 8.1 with the Denim update. WP 8.1 is pretty cool, especially with Denim. But I like to have all my devices running the latest OS and try new features. In the short time I've spent using WP 8.1 (four days passed between the purchase and the update - I've updated the day the W10 rollout began) I had the device configured to read my messages out loud.
But nothing, NOTHING seems to work on W10. I have the keyboard configured to show the microphone, but it's nowhere to be seen. Text-to-speech doesn't work anymore, and Cortana will probably be available here a few days after the nobody-cares-anymore deadline. I really feel when it becomes finally available I'll be old and will spend the whole day working as a slave on a Mars colony. Well, I hope it happens a bit sooner, but I won't hold my breath :angry:
I know the language settings must be the same as my region for voice recognition and text-to-speech to work, but that's not possible. The UI language is configured to Spanish (Argentina) whereas there's no such language for the keyboard. Available options include only Spanish (Spain) and Spanish (Mexico). Text-to-speech languages don't include Spanish (Argentina), either. I guess I could solve it by trying some of those language variations but that's impossible. Every time I try to install a language pack, it begins installation and then fails with an 0x80070020 error. A little googling revealed that this usually happens when a download or a firewall/antivirus interferes with the installation. That's not the case; I have no firewall/antivirus enabled and there were no downloads in process (I checked the store and I wasn't using the browser).
So even though I love my phone and the OS I feel I'm being left with half the OS, considering that MSFT is promoting Cortana as the most awesome virtual assistant since Synergy (and that was in 1985 and wasn't even real). I mentioned Cortana because I don't know whether text-to-speech and dictation are Cortana-dependant.
Not that having text-to-speech or dictation is really important, but I come from Android, and let me tell you that Google Now worked like a charm and dictating wasn't an epic adventure. It just worked - something that MSFT doesn't seem to give me, even with the .218 update.
Last but not least, I know I can change the region but that would have some undesired consequences (WIndows Sotore problems, for example).
Any help would be appreciated. Otherwise take this just as a rant.
When I bought that little piece of awesomeness one month ago it was running Windows Phone 8.1 with the Denim update. WP 8.1 is pretty cool, especially with Denim. But I like to have all my devices running the latest OS and try new features. In the short time I've spent using WP 8.1 (four days passed between the purchase and the update - I've updated the day the W10 rollout began) I had the device configured to read my messages out loud.
But nothing, NOTHING seems to work on W10. I have the keyboard configured to show the microphone, but it's nowhere to be seen. Text-to-speech doesn't work anymore, and Cortana will probably be available here a few days after the nobody-cares-anymore deadline. I really feel when it becomes finally available I'll be old and will spend the whole day working as a slave on a Mars colony. Well, I hope it happens a bit sooner, but I won't hold my breath :angry:
I know the language settings must be the same as my region for voice recognition and text-to-speech to work, but that's not possible. The UI language is configured to Spanish (Argentina) whereas there's no such language for the keyboard. Available options include only Spanish (Spain) and Spanish (Mexico). Text-to-speech languages don't include Spanish (Argentina), either. I guess I could solve it by trying some of those language variations but that's impossible. Every time I try to install a language pack, it begins installation and then fails with an 0x80070020 error. A little googling revealed that this usually happens when a download or a firewall/antivirus interferes with the installation. That's not the case; I have no firewall/antivirus enabled and there were no downloads in process (I checked the store and I wasn't using the browser).
So even though I love my phone and the OS I feel I'm being left with half the OS, considering that MSFT is promoting Cortana as the most awesome virtual assistant since Synergy (and that was in 1985 and wasn't even real). I mentioned Cortana because I don't know whether text-to-speech and dictation are Cortana-dependant.
Not that having text-to-speech or dictation is really important, but I come from Android, and let me tell you that Google Now worked like a charm and dictating wasn't an epic adventure. It just worked - something that MSFT doesn't seem to give me, even with the .218 update.
Last but not least, I know I can change the region but that would have some undesired consequences (WIndows Sotore problems, for example).
Any help would be appreciated. Otherwise take this just as a rant.