I came here to search for comments on this issue since finding how hopeless this function was (especially compared to my previous Nokia) with my in-car Bluetooth unit.

I couldn't believe how bad it was. Will try the tips but not holding my breath. (Hey, maybe that's the problem…)

First going to try and find the dialect setting.

Thanks guys.

(Eediot has made 5 comments)

hello
this is my very first comment to leave here as i am your new member:)

im finding difficult to use the voice control but getting better.

thank you for finding the tips!

(lytower has made 2 comments)

It took a while, but I'm now happy to use Voice control. Mainly a case of using the correct commands in my case. I find "Dial" works fine but "Call" almost always gets it wrong. Also if you're using the earphones and voice control gets it wrong, just a single click on the control cancels that command

(Leong has made 1 comment)

Michael — did you buy your iPhone here? If so have you left it set to the default English (British) or did you switch it to English (American)?

One other thing I forgot to mention in the article — since iPhone now has the ability to 'talk' it would be awesome if it could announce who is calling when you have your headphones on and your iPhone in your pocket. I hate not knowing who is calling and having to answer the call blind!

(Steve Lawrence has made 645 comments)

Wow -getting the hang of this now-managing to get it to play artists much better.

Calling contact list people is a bit hit and miss however!!

(psychrn has made 131 comments)

I can’t remember if I set it to American or if it came that way (I bought the phone hear from Vodafone) but it is set to American now.

It would be nice if it was smart enough announce callers, but I did read a clever workaround: someone had set up Automator to create an individual ringtone with a voice announce for every single user in the address book, then they just linked the appropriate ringtones to the individual contacts. Unfortunately that wouldn’t be able to be turned on or off so that it only happens when you’re wearing headphones, etc.

(moviemichael has made 59 comments)

Related but unrelated, the new SingStar karaoke games on PlayStation 3 allow voice control by way of 4Mb update (tiny?).

I haven’t really formally tested, but the software seems to easily pick up basic commands without any training whatsoever (advance, back, select, etc.), and can seem to pick up the names of bands/songs too.

Again, this is without training, and added with a 4Mb update and it left me very surprised what is achieveable.

(ahmad has made 101 comments)

I also found it completely useless unless I used an American (or English) accent, depending on the global region setting. It also kept dialing random contact numbers. They should have included a more granular option to specifically disable Voice Control phone dialling.

(nzsnowman has made 3 comments)

It’s getting better for me too, given though that I have an American accent. It was always getting Liam Finn wrong so I decided to ask it “what song is this” and I found out that it was pronouncing it “Lie-am Finn”, now when I ask it to play “Lie-am Finn” it gives me what I want.

(moviemichael has made 59 comments)

I have found it impossible to use so gave up on it too!!
Ill try some of the tips however.
Thanks for the useful review

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