Comments on: No Voice Control for iPhone 3G, iPod Touch and first gen iPhone

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:24:26 +0000

ive got the iphone and i saw about the voice control, i though it looked good so i thought i might give it a go they say '' hold the home button'' but after almost a miniute it didnt work ? i dont understand it worked when my brother had one but mine doesn't can somebody please tell me why or help ?

By: Luckie_Steve

Luckie_Steve — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:52:58 +0000

The basic fact is that the iphone 3G is quite capable of instituting the SOFTWARE controlled voice command available in the 3GS, as well as the video recording abilities.. However apple wishes you to upgrade to a shiny new EXPENSIVE 3GS!! and if they backpedal now and allow it in a newer firmware update then they are just going to cop more flack for lying in the first place lol. My old Nokia N90 had voice dialing and even minor application support (calculator, clock etc) at the press of a button on the side, don’t tell me the iphone 3G can’t process it how dumb do you really think we are steveo

On another point all together, I do not understand why there has now technically been 4 generations of iphones and they still haven’t put a low resolution camera in the front side of the phone to allow video calls!! I mean come on apple as if that wasn’t something you SHOULD have done with the release of the 3GS…

By: hnb

hnb — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:31:01 +0000

Back in the early 90s I had a Windows 3.1 PC 486/33mhz with 4MB ram and a Soundblaster 16 that came with speech recognition program. It worked FLAULESSLY and let me run commands, make shortcuts, even dial numbers with netspeaks legendary webphone. that was almost 20 years ago!!! So please Apple, do not insult our intelligence that you could use a software update. I had all the iphones so far, the original 2.0, the 3G (jailbroken) and now the GS. I see very (if any) differencies in the 2 latest. the only thing that found convenient was the camera / picture integration and the editing video functionality although its crippled. The compass SUCKS! totally useless. Battery life is the same junk. For those of you who are seriously thinking of buying the GS, stick to the 3G and jailbreak the crap out of it. I speak from experience.

By: Name

Name — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:30:26 +0000

I try to get my voice control up by holding the home button, but it doesn't come up!

By: Name

Name — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:30:26 +0000

I try to get my voice control up by holding the home button, but it doesn't come up!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:53:29 +0000

what is voice control for? Everytime Im playing my music from my iphone, voice control takes over and interferes? What do i need to do so this stops happening.. Its annoying and once it starts it keeps beenping.. HELP me..

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:53:00 +0000

By: Threepwood

Threepwood — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:40:43 +0000

I think its all just making more money and advertisement stats to sell the newer models.
I mean camera is also a crap even in 3gs they give 3MP while other phones are minimum 5MP or 8MP
check out http://www.makayama.com/iphonevoicedial.html

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:17:12 +0000

Has anyone noticed that using voice control for contacts that are just business names (i.e. they have no first and last name) doesn’t work? It’s a pain in the a$$. Am I doing something wrong? Seems like the only workaround is to go into the contact and add a first and/or last name. Then it works fine.

By: Michael A

Michael A — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:26:59 +0000

G’day from Australia. Thought I’d chip in my 10c. I’ve recently upgraded from 3g to S. Voice control has been 99% accurate. But it still doesn’t satisfy my need. I’m a plumber by trade and quite often getting down and dirty under some old house. Can’t always touch my phone (dirty hands, hands full etc). Few years back I had a S.E. p800 touchscreen ( read: PRESSscreen! ) PDA gadget with the stylus and all. It was marvelous tech at the time. Built to compete with Nokia 6600 and earlier ( and first ever nokia cam phone ) 7650. The S.E. was a complete failture in terms of user friendly, battery, etc. However, it handled voice commands in a way that I think is the future of this technology. It had a feature called “magic word”. You recorded a unique phrase in your own voice and the phone was constantly “listening”. When detected, you could say, “answer, reject, call, dial, etc etc”. This meant you could make AND take a call without touching your phone. Reason for failture? Battery life was halved when “magic word” feature was on.
Until you can operate a gadget without touching it, voice control & command is just a fancy feature. Why would I hold a button for 2 seconds, say “next track”, and wait for the bloody thing to change tracks when I can double tap home and do it in a second? I admit it’s good for dialling. But the 2-second-button-bashing kills it. Just pressing power + one of the volume keys together would have made more sense (hold the iphone in your right hand, thumb on power, index finger on volume, or even easier in left hand).
Anyways, great device, God I hate Apple. Da’s my 10c worth.