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

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.