BlackBerry forum: Curve's Confirmation of Voice Dialing - Unintelligible

Yes, I had the same problem with the bluetooth dialing confirmation on my Curve...Verizon carrier
also, I had a hard time using the bluetooth voice activated calling.
It often couldn't pick out the party I was calling..not even close.

I was used to seamless bluetooth funciton from a previous phone and found this very dissappointing.

I have been using a Sprint Blackberry 8330 for about 6 months. The Bluetooth funcionality is one of the things I am ipressed with. I just push the button on my Jabra BT8040 and voice Curve's voice dialiing feature opens with "Say A command". In six month's time I can count the misdials on one hand. The confirmation does sound slightly garbled sometimes but I can still understand what it is saying.

I have a LG HBM-310 bluetooth ... the voice commands are clear coming from the 8900, but when I speak a voice command I get numerous mis-dials ... sometimes I believe it depends on the pronunciation, background noise (wind, radio, conversations, etc.) and the bluetooth device being used ...

I am SO sick of hearing the technical 'support' person tell me this is the 1st they're hearing of the problem. The clear message is that I must be nuts.

If I'm getting a small handful of people with the same issue in just a few hours from thread launch on this one forum, there must be hundreds or thousands of us out there. Please, please, please let your carriers know - who should in turn let RIM know they have a problem. (Perhaps if the Windows version weren't so good, we wouldn't know any better, but we do.)

Ed_L468, thanks for the suggested Vlingo. That could be my long-sought answer. I loaded it to the Curve, set the options the program asks me to, but when I invoke voice dialing it reverts to the evil resident program. So my questions are: (1) Does it talk to Bluetooth and (2) If so, how does one eliminate the resident program?

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Jessica Dolcourt's review:

This stellar voice-transcription application does more than search the Web or place a call in response to your spoken command. Vlingo lets you get specific, searching Google or Yahoo and updating your Facebook and Twitter status. You can also launch applications, write notes to yourself, and verbally compose a text or e-mail message.

The set-up is a little laborious, and Vlingo does have a learning curve, but the step-by-step instructions help you program a fast access key that works like a record button, and the help file is a good, easily access reminder of what you can say and do. Vlingo's transcription may be on the slower side, especially if your connection is weak, but the application makes up for it by creating a voice recognition profile that improves with use, and by letting you preview text before you send anything to the public. Not to mention, it's got one of the best voice-to-text service we've seen.