SMS wrote:
> Yeah, sometimes the voice recognition works perfectly on my V325i,
> sometimes I get so frustrated with it than when it says "Say a Command"
> I respond with "you suck." What does work reliably is "digit dial" and
> "redial." Sometimes when I say "name dial" it redials.

Try just "name".

> Sometimes when it
> recognizes the name and there are multiple phone numbers and it says
> "which number?" it doesn't recognize the answer and comes back with "no
> match found."

I have never gotten that. My V710 is even smart enough to recognize "cell"
to mean "mobile".

> The older voice-dialing system which required that you
> train the phone with the name and your voice worked much better than the
> current Motorola technology.
>
> I think that Apple probably wanted voice-dialing on the iPhone but
> either a) couldn't find someone to license the firmware to them, b)
> tried to do it themselves but couldn't get it working in time for the
> iPhone release, or c) ran into some legal issues with patents on the
> technology. I can't imagine that they won't have it in the next revision.

Or (d) remembers a certain Dilbert cartoon about handwriting recognition
on the Newton that included the words "weave me a cone you cupid bat".

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