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Voice Control just as bad as any voice control.

I'm glad for most that it seems to work fine, because this was one of things I'm missing from not having a 3GS yet. The iPhone (3G and all versions before) is impossible to use while driving, and the voice control is something I thought would fix all that.
 
The General said:
Television in the UK? This matters. It doesn't understand people with accents.
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I have an accent (South African), and it understands me most of the time. Though Music is a little tough, I have no problems calling someone from my address book or dialing a number.
 
I told mine "play crappy songs" and it started to download every Miley Cyrus song. Seems to work for me.
 
Has anyone, preferably in the UK tried to use voice control to call O2 ?

I tired it today ' Dial 2302 " and it just says no match found, even after 5 attempts :confused:
 
Honestly you just have to speak clearly and its not that bad. For example I have a ton of Indian music, and it seems to understand what I say. O fcourse it repeats the stuff back in a horrid accent, but it understands and plays what I want a good 95% of the time. I have no regrets, especially given that the iPhone doesn't boast support for Hindi as a language, lol.

I recommend to all people who are having trouble to simply speak as clearly as possible and annunciate.
 
daneoni said:
Same...weird
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I know, it's like the Phone is denying to dial a number with less that 6 digits ( just an example )

... Quite annoying

3.1 update to fix this ?

EDIT: Just tried calling the Apple store up from their online number, that doesn't work either
 
You have to say play artist Nirvana.
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I found "play songs by [artist]" to work just fine.

I found it works almost perfectly -- one time I gave it a command that was completely not a command it recognized (I think I was trying to see if it would play a podcast), and it started dialing my mother. Other than that, it's worked great.
 
iphone.aggie said:
The iPhone (3G and all versions before) is impossible to use while driving, and the voice control is something I thought would fix all that.
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Exactly. I called my son while driving to work this morning. I said "Call Michael". It said "Calling Michael, cell phone". I've had a high positive percentage rate as well with almost everything, including music.

I think the OP showed his hand when he named the thread title "...as bad as any voice control". For him, it doesn't work well. Most other posters here have very few problems. It was nice to keep my eyes on the road and make a phone call.
 
I was expecting Apple quality.

This works the same as all the other crappy voice controls.


You guys actually think it works really well? Would you use it all the time?

By work in TV I meant the standard midwestern TV news accent. Considered the standard American accent or no accent. (what they use for TV show and Movies here)


The only way it works for me is if I COMMAND it in a robot voice with slow over enunciated words and thats not even 100%. Like the way you tell your dog to sit or something.

I don't want to be all loud and act like Mr. Sulu when I am dialing a number.


My old crap Motorola phone from 5 years ago worked about the same.
 
Chaos123x said:
I was expecting Apple quality.

This works the same as all the other crappy voice controls.


You guys actually think it works really well? Would you use it all the time?

By work in TV I meant the standard midwestern TV news accent. Considered the standard American accent or no accent. (what they use for TV show and Movies here)


The only way it works for me is if I COMMAND it in a robot voice with slow over enunciated words and thats not even 100%. Like the way you tell your dog to sit or something.

I don't want to be all loud and act like Mr. Sulu when I am dialing a number.


My old crap Motorola phone from 5 years ago worked about the same.
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Yes, it works very well. I only have to speak normally and it understands. I tell it to dial a number and it dials it perectly. What ore could I want? It works just as good as the OnStar calling does in my car when I tell it to dial a number.
 
TapOut said:
my voice control works 99.9% of the time.. i never have any problems

maybe you should restore
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I'm sure my phone is fine.


Do you guys all use the voice controls on OS X all the time?

:rolleyes:


Try using the voice control over and over again, it only gets it right like 3 out of 5, I get a good laugh at it's mistakes when they are not even close.
 
Chaos123x said:
I'm sure my phone is fine.


Do you guys all use the voice controls on OS X all the time?

:rolleyes:


Try using the voice control over and over again, it only gets it right like 3 out of 5, I get a good laugh at it's mistakes when they are not even close.
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Yes, because you expect the phone to understand your individual speech patterns, rather than just learning to speak the four or five words you need clearly and distinctly. Because you don't want to sound like Sulu. I don't think this is the phone's problem.
 
I love showing the accuracy of voice control to people who are interested. I love the voice control and use it often when driving. :) I learned to talk slowly, talk clearly, and to speak clearly. Sort of how the voice control lady talks.

I also tried it talking normally and it still works. Sure there are issues, but nothing is perfect all the time. Its still a great hands free tool.
 
gloss said:
Yes, because you expect the phone to understand your individual speech patterns, rather than just learning to speak the four or five words you need clearly and distinctly. Because you don't want to sound like Sulu. I don't think this is the phone's problem.
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No but the point of the thread is that it works just like other voice control systems. If you like them then you will like the iPhone version, if you don't like them the iPhone voice control is not anything revolutionary and works about the same.

It works about the same as the voice controls when you call MyApple. For better or for worse.
 
Chaos123x said:
No but the point of the thread is that it works just like other voice control systems. If you like them then you will like the iPhone version, if you don't like them the iPhone voice control is not anything revolutionary and works about the same.

It works about the same as the voice controls when you call MyApple. For better or for worse.
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I'm just saying that, as far as I can tell, more people think it works nicely than don't, and the issues you have with it may well be just that - your issues.
 
The last phone I had that had voice dialing made me pre-record myself saying that contacts name. I didn't just understand me, I had to teach it to understand me.
 
Try using the voice control over and over again, it only gets it right like 3 out of 5, I get a good laugh at it's mistakes when they are not even close.
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I think we're trying to tell you that we have used it over and over again, and it gets it right a lot more than 3 out of 5 times. Like, more like 19 out of 20. I don't know if you're from an area that has a particularly strong accent (Boston? Louisiana?). If so, and it doesn't recognize your speech, that sucks -- but it's hard to see how they could make voice control that would recognize every possible accent.

(My uncle from Rhode Island has Onstar -- he takes great delight in demonstrating how he can not make it dial any phone number containing a 4. The computer just can't seem to understand his r-dropping accent when it comes to that number.)
 
natebookpro said:
I'm sure he enunciates perfectly... he works in television. I on the other hand just watch tv and it's definitely hitting about 90% accuracy.
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It is designed towards viewers more than makers. I think that is the problem.

Clearly the speech patterns of tv performers and camermen is significantly different from the ones you see in a typical viewer.

Since you are just a viewer, try this at home. Get some kind of device that looks like a camera. The 3GS won't work for this, you need it. Go to your bathroom.

Set the camera looking device on the back of the toilet so it is facing you. Now use a hairbrush as a microphone and look into the mirror and say:

"This is NatebookPro for the evening news. Tonight's first story is an usual pair. The world's first Koala and Panda couple have given birth to a baby Kanda."

Once you do that, while still holding the hairbrush and looking into a mirror, ask for your 3GS to play you pink floyd songs. It will not work.
 
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