Comments on: How to shut off the BlackBerry voice dialing application

By: Cooper

Cooper — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:29:34 +0000

@Padma Absolutely – you just have to change the function of the quick launch key it is assigned to – see here:
http://www.bbgeeks.com/quick-tips/quick-tip-set-your-convenience-key-88471/

By: Padma

Padma — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:55:00 +0000

I have BB 8800 I love by BB but I don’t like voice dialing. whould you please tell me how to turn of voice dialing in BB 8800. voice dialing always disturbing me. please help me….

By: kleinline

kleinline — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:34:47 +0000

I agree w/the dissenters. I hate BB voice dialing. Not only does it not recognize your commands, but my BB Bold is always initiating voice dialing on its OWN, and mostly when I’m using the Media app to listen to music or podcasts. There’s nothing more frustrating than having your music suddenly cut short by a white screen of death, and hearing “say a command” repeated infinitely. The worst part is, once it jars you out of listening, you can’t get the media app to pick up where it left off, since some bug forces it to skip to the end of the song/podcast, or flip between play/pause endlessly until you hit stop.

I propose BB use the voice of HAL for their next voice dialing release.

By: SteveR

SteveR — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:49:17 +0000

I agree totally with JCurtis!!!

This would have to be the most painful voice recog ever. I had a Philips Xenium many years again that kicked it butt. By the time I get who I want it’s much quicker to find it the usual way. I cannot believe RIM actually let that crab out of it’s box. The voice recog seems to want you to talk like a robot to get even close. I would like to ask Terry is he works at RIM. get rid of it please…waste of memory AFAIC maybe remove the module for the VRec to gain more mem??

By: JCurtis

JCurtis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:02:46 +0000

Blackberry’s voice dialing is the worst I’ve seen. Prior 4 phones all let me record, in my voice, the contact I added (e.g. 5 Davids so David Smith was recorded as DeeSmith) 99% accurate… Blackberry interprets what you are saying and “tries” to match it to your contact list, about 20% accurate and it takes minutes to get it to dial. It’s bad, very bad, pretty much useless.

By: ghad

ghad — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:34:32 +0000

This was very helpful to me thank you old bean

By: Terry Howard

Terry Howard — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:58:47 +0000

You could also just change the convenience key to something you do use. I find the voice dialing feature incredible useful and probably the best voice dialing system in a phone ever. I have my app hidden actually because I only access when driving using a bluetooth ear piece. What I love about BB’s voice dialing is there is ZERO setup. There is no need to record audio tags for every contact, and I’ve found it matches up even names that aren’t phonetically pronounced (good programming). It also responds accurately when you use conversational tones, no need to sound like a loud booming robot to get an accurate match.