Voice dialing working for anyone?

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markdr

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#76931 8-Feb-2011 23:54

Is it just me or does voice dialing not work very well for kiwi accents?

I am not having much luck getting voice dialing to work reliably either by speaking directly into the phone or via my bluetooth headset. My phone usually ends up dialing a random number or a random contact (I guess it is not random, just what the phone thinks I asked for).

This is on my Nexus S but see similar behaviour on my wife's Galaxy S.

Anyone having better success?

numfarr

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#437092 9-Feb-2011 01:46

Yes it isn't very good, and you can't train it. If you use the Call Confirm app you can at least confirm whether it's calling the right person, otherwise it just goes ahead and dials if the phonebook entry that it found only has one number.

foamfollower

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#437133 9-Feb-2011 09:02

I downloaded Vlingo from the market (free) and it is amazingly obedient. Does more than voice dialing as well.

Neets

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#437184 9-Feb-2011 11:08

No, I've not had any luck with any voice search, or Vlingo. I thought it might have been a female voice but had my hubby also try to use it. No luck for him either. Seems it just doesn't like the Kiwi accent.

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n4

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#437242 9-Feb-2011 13:13

For me Vlingo works better than standard Android. However it still struggles with road noise etc when travelling faster than 50km in the car.

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Linuxluver

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#437546 9-Feb-2011 22:32

markdr:
Is it just me or does voice dialing not work very well for kiwi accents?

I am not having much luck getting voice dialing to work reliably either by speaking directly into the phone or via my bluetooth headset. My phone usually ends up dialing a random number or a random contact (I guess it is not random, just what the phone thinks I asked for).

This is on my Nexus S but see similar behaviour on my wife's Galaxy S.

Anyone having better success?

We had an interesting experience in the office the other day.

Voice dialing worked perfectly for 2 out of 3 people on the same phone. For the 3rd person, it was *WILDLY* incapable of understanding anything.

The third person's voice - for some reason that had nothing to do with the accent - was not intelligible to the phone.

My own view is that the person who can't be understood speaks with a nasal aspect to his voice that the other two speakers do not have....and the phone just can't make out what he's saying.

Do you speak in a way that your voice resonates in your nasal passages? I appreciate this will probably be impossible for you to objectively evaluate.

Update: It could also be something else entirely. But I have definitely seen the same phone work perfectly for two people and not at all for the third.

I was a fourth voice - Canadian accent with NZ English as the default on the phone - and it understood me perfectly. A Fifth person, an English woman, was also perfectly understood on the same phone with the NZ Eglish as the default.

It was just weird.....

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Con

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#438012 10-Feb-2011 21:52

Vlingo rocks !

markdr

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#438098 11-Feb-2011 06:40

Con: Vlingo rocks !

Unfortunately it crashes on my Nexus S so not able to try it. Voice Actions came up in the same search and seems to work OK but not had a chance to use it on the road yet.

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ArtooDetoo

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#438118 11-Feb-2011 08:09

Voice dialling works for me although my 'kiwi' accent is modified by my Scottish heritage, so that could be a factor. Used to use voice dialling on my old Nokia with great success once I'd learned to imitate the synth voice. Peeps used to look at me strangely whilst I was making voice commands though, and it seemed to be of limitless mirth for many.

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