Comments on: Voice Control – What Does it Actually Control?

By: OneTwo

OneTwo — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:01:51 +0000

i completly agree : )

By: Steffen Bruun

Steffen Bruun — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:43:37 +0000

“I like voice control, so far, the only problem that I had was when I said:
“Play songs by Duran Duran”
it called my Aunt Diane, haha.”

I second that! Major problem with voice control, is that when you try to control your iPhone’s ipod, you can easily, by mistake, call people in your contact-book. Since there is no way to disable the dial/call voice commands, then make sure that you only have friends in your contacts book – and not too many ex-girlfriends

By: Martin Newham

Martin Newham — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:38:13 +0000

I have a question; I have a 3G and you refer in the post to “press the middle button” on the remote?

Does the 3GS have a defferent type of remote/headphones than the 3G? I was sure that there was only 1 button on the little remote..

cheers.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:37:34 +0000

This is totally software. I’m sure somebody (much smarter than me) could write something similar or better.

Sounds like Vlingo to me. I want a voice controlled Shazam though.

By: iLove my iPhone

iLove my iPhone — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:09:22 +0000

in that case, do you think some one can port it over to the 3g and 2g? like someone did with the fake compass, but one that actually works.
i also tried the new headphones with volume controll and they worked fine with audio and microphone, but i could not control the volume using the buttons on my 2g. odd, cuz that seems software to me too

By: Humanumanukanukawha

Humanumanukanukawha — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:47:06 +0000

I like voice control, so far, the only problem that I had was when I said:

“Play songs by Duran Duran”

it called my Aunt Diane, haha.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:40:35 +0000

“Technically” it is hardware since it is only available on the iPhone 3GS. But, I agree, totally softwareish. The only thing that Apple could say is that the iPhone 3GS has more processing power and that it needs the processing power in order to run the Voice Control feature and that is why it is not available on the 1st and 2nd gen iPhones.

By: iLove my iPhone

iLove my iPhone — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:30:48 +0000

is this hardware related cuz this sounds very software ish

By: tom

tom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +0000

Well I have tried it and it is still buggy;

Say play the artiest Bee Gee is replays playing the beach boys.

Say call bob welsh it replays calling roberto warren

This thing stinks come on Apple fix the voice commend.

By: Jedoonat

Jedoonat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:13:33 +0000

I have an iPhone 3G S, and I think the voice control is cool and handy at times. But, the thing I wish would be available is Voice Control settings. What I mean specifically is the seconds it takes to kick in after holding the home button. Either have settings for it or make it react a bit faster. The way it is right now, I think it’s running a bit slow. At least that’s my opinion of the Voice Control. What do you guys think?