Voice Tags in Contact
1) I was told by Nokia Support that the voice tags for the names in contact list “are device generated and cannot be changed” …… is this true? i have been trying for 2 hours. getting nowhere.
2) Can i edit the voice tags in contacts list? Record my own voice for each name?
OSK
Speaker Independent Voice Dialing (SIND) automatically creates a voice tag of all the names stored in the phonebook.
One Speaker independent name dialing tag takes uses much less memory then a normal voice tag.
- You can´t edit the voice tags.
Henrik Nilsson | 7:58 am on the 9th of November, 2006
what a silly thing. Nokia is assuming that everyone has a standard voice. I am having a bad throat now and the SIND cannot understand me. What about people with voice related disabilities?
osk | 8:51 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
I also tries a long time before I found out it is not possible. I find it very anoying. I used to have a SE p900 and voice tagged all numbers I cal regularly. This means that for some contacts I have 2 or even more numbers with a tag. E.g.
dad home
dad mobile
Now I only the default number is tagged, which is annoying!
The other reason why I do not like this feature is because I always use every operating system in English. However I live in the Netherlands and most of my friends and family have Dutch sounding names. Choosing English as a language implies pronouncing your names in English. I’ve tried it, but it won’t work!
I can imagine it takes less memory, but why not let people choose or finetune their tags themselves. Why not take the best of both worlds!
Roel | 3:27 am on the 9th of November, 2006
personally, I’ve found it to be the best voice recognition system I’ve used. Much better than my old Moto V300. I don’t remember the last time I had a mis-recognition. Accuracy > 98% maybe.
The nice thing about SIND is that you automatically get tags for all of your contacts with no effort.
jay_cee | 5:25 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
I too think it’s a pretty accurate system. But as for multiple numbers, if you just say the person’s name followed by ‘home’ ‘mobile’ ‘business’ etc, the E61 should recognize the difference and dial appropriately.
Brian | 11:18 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
I had to laugh when I read the post – I couldn’t find the voice tag entry either… But the little call-by-voice button was there, and said to say a name… So I figured I’d try the HARDEST name I could think of – a russian co-worker of mine whose last name (which is only slightly longer than his first name) is Andriyevskiy – and the little half-Brittish-half-robot voice repeated the entry spot-on. Best voice-recognition I’ve come across by FAR.
Chad | 6:49 am on the 9th of November, 2006
I totally agree this function works like a dream !!!! Who wants to have to trawl through your contacts adding loads of tags.
Mat | 3:26 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
I like voice tag
Andrew | 8:43 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
The most useless voice recognition system EVER. And I had a lot of phones.
All of you who praise it, should realize that it works ONLY of you have NO accent (and probably because you’ve never seen the real thing in your lifes)
For the rest of us = recognition rate
Pissed off user | 2:41 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
Repost
The most useless voice recognition system EVER. And I had a lot of phones.
All of you who praise it, should realize that it works ONLY of you have NO accent (and probably because you’ve never seen the real thing in your lifes)
For the rest of us = recognition rate less then 10%
Lack of user recordable tags makes the thing totally useless. Plus the stupid voice recorder button doubling as voice command button only results in hundreds of useless 1 minute recordings being made. So much for “saving memory” bullshit.
Also whomever claimed that you can just say “mobile” or “home” after the name is a fat liar. The thing does not work that way and there is no mention of it in the manual. As a matter of fact the manual states that the phone will “auto-choose” the number, unless you specify a “defaut” in order of work mobile, work, mobile, home.
NO OTHER CHOICE!
USELESS! TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, UTTERLY USELESS!
Do not buy this junk phone.
Pissed off user | 2:42 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
“Do not buy this junk phone.” Because of the stupid voice recognition feature? You’re a nutcase!
Adam | 8:02 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
Yrp
Some american Robot voices that rapes Scottisch and irish names. Just becaouse the iejits cannot pronounce names. like:
McGrath (pron Magrah)
O’Mahony (pron Oh Má he/hu ny)
Niamh (pron Neve)
Siobhan (pron Siobhan)
Really crap you cant record your own voicetags.
And the lame excuse of space for custom record voicetags.
Most of the phenes take microsd with up to 3 GB dataspace
Bas | 3:19 am on the 9th of November, 2006
I’ve just had my 6230i replaced with the 6300 (works phone) so no choice – at first i was impressed with the slim design, thought i was pretty cool with my new 6300; UNTIL i tried using voice tags – the voice recognition just does’nt work, NOKIA”You got it wrong!!!!” and if you think you can misslead us all by posting silly stupid comments from yourselves, which i’m covinced is the case because they are total bullsh*t lies about the phone working when clearly it does’nt. I’m just gobsmacked that NOKIA obviously think they are so big and powerfull that they “know what’s best” attitude skinks – the voice recognition does’nt work accept it and change back to what we want – something that worked fine without you tinkering with dream technology or cheap tech – whatever i’m peed off – i want my 6230i back – it worked all the time!!
TD | 12:45 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
Won’t recognise my Aussie accent. Very frustrating. Voice recognition for fighter aircraft and military use a set of standard phrases spoken by the operator to calibrate the recognition to the individual.
If they are not going to use this why not allow users to record their own voice tags.
Phillip Allardyce | 5:32 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
The phone itself is great. But I really can not use voice dialing. 5% of success. And other bad thing is , if phone unable to find exact math it will take nearest and call! Its really hard to control when you use headphones in car!
I just came here to find additional info. Who knows and may be something changed since I bought my N95. But it seems that NOKIA doesn’t care about it anymore
To bad
Ray Adams | 2:28 am on the 9th of November, 2006
I totally agreee auto voice recognition is a failure if it cannot be modified. As for space saving. I would guess that most of us would only have a few contacts that require VR as opposed to adding a tag to every single contact. Sorry NOKIA back to the drawing board
malcolm | 8:59 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
Like many others, I’m utterly miffed (no need to swear) with Nokia for not allowing user-recorded tags. I think they’ve made a terrible mistake. Nokia phones, in my estimation, are far and away the best mobile phones available, but if I can’t record my own voice tags, I can’t use the phone, so I’ll have to go elsewhere.
The “excuse” that it’s to save memory is farcical. I personally only use about 25 tags which was not a problem on my 6230i, even though it only had 32MB of memory. The latest phones have at least, the very least, a full GB, some even having up to 8 or more GB, so even if you gave each entry in a 300 entry address book, a tag, there would still be bags of room.
Sadly, I think that Nokia are on to a loser with this subject. People will abandon them in droves and it’ll be tough to persuade them back.
Don’t you just hate companies and organisations that claim to “know what’s best for you”?
japhid | 8:53 pm on the 9th of November, 2006
Yeah, terrible approach by Nokia. It has happened to me quite often that it ends up dialling somebody elses number. Usually, people I dont want call at all or worse, my ex!.
Even my old Motorola V3 allowed for recorded voice tags and only to the contacts I wanted to call, so it was a safe scenario should speech recognition fail. Nowadays with Nokia, its just a pain when it fails and dials somebody else. This is crap behaviour.
Bottom line: If you use voice dialing, be prepared to suffer this on any Nokia phone. My advise, seek elsewhere.
JuanChanKane | 4:11 am on the 9th of November, 2006
Yep. Absolute crap.
When you play the tag it sounds like a strangled Martian with its nuts in a vice.
Doesn’t match my voice and fails every time. Maybe I should clamp on the vice before I call …..
My Sony Erisson worked a treat because I could record my own tags.
Nokia progress? Pah ……………
David Thomas | 8:58 am on the 9th of November, 2006
PS: What’s with this website’s time and date function?
Entry submitted 19 Sept 2009
David Thomas | 9:00 am on the 9th of November, 2006
The voice recognition is absolutely useless
G | 11:23 am on the 9th of November, 2006