Comments on: Voice Tags in Contact

By: G

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:23:09 +0000

The voice recognition is absolutely useless

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:00:20 +0000

PS: What’s with this website’s time and date function?

Entry submitted 19 Sept 2009

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:58:34 +0000

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 ……………

By: JuanChanKane

JuanChanKane — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:11:59 +0000

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.

By: japhid

japhid — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:53:33 +0000

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”?

By: malcolm

malcolm — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:59:52 +0000

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

By: Ray Adams

Ray Adams — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:28:58 +0000

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

By: Phillip Allardyce

Phillip Allardyce — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:32:35 +0000

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.

By: TD

TD — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:45:57 +0000

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!!

By: Bas

Bas — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:19:29 +0000

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