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

11 Responses to Voice Tags in Contact

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. I like voice tag

    Andrew | 8:43 pm on the 9th of November, 2006

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. “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

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