From the article: How Well Does Voice Control Hear Music Names?
While the iPhone 3GS's voice control feature has proved very accurate when it comes to understand names and dialing the correct numbers, I've found that it's lacking when it comes to understanding the names of artists, albums, or songs. What's your experience? How accurate is Voice Control when it comes to music? And is there anything to do about it? Share Your Experiences
Awful
- I try very simple things like "Play song: Propane Nightmares", "Play Propane Nightmares", "Play Propane Nightmares by Pendulum" and it dials random strings of numbers, or takes that to mean "Call Dad" or something else useless. Was this made to be intentionally bad so people would buy Siri?
- —Guest Andrew
vc
- 4 days and hours of attempts ... 1 correct response, so far ... useless!
- —Guest glen
VC Sucks
- Getting so ticked off with trying to dial and getting "no music", wrong number, "no match." My old Motorola RAZR was flawless. This sucks big time.
- —Guest keith
Biggest Crap
- Worst ever. Total crap. Lies. Advertising. Unethical. Failure. And many other things it may be called but never any word as recognition must be used.
- —Guest Hakan
Try this:
- Go to Settings>General>International and change Voice Control to your language and/or dialect. ------ Try this alternative command: "Play songs by" + Artist instead of "Play Artist" + Artist ------ Also iOS doesn't allow "Play" + Songtitle God knows why. ----- Voice control works perfectly fine for me. Hope I could help somebody here. :)
- —Guest No Problems
Terrible
- I use bluetooth in a motorcycle helmet. I've had 2 other cheapo phones that worked great and were very accurate. My iphone is terrible and completely useless using voice control. Hopefully they get this fixed.
- —Guest Art
More horrible than Dr. Horrible
- I have a clear voice (I have been asked if I am in radio, as in broadcasting), I am from Seattle, (close to Microsoft; you might think that would help), but it is far more often wrong than right. Why can't Microsoft add the "tune" or "learn" ability. Even if it could be restricted to my Favorites, it might help.
- —Guest Somebody
Voice control
- VC calls randomly without my activation. Don't know how to disarm this function. This I'd the only feature iPhone failed on me.
- —Guest Lucy
voice control
- Sucks >>> It just will dial someone without me wanting it to. Acitivates with other people in the car and them speaking in the car. Crazy, wish I could disconnect it, but don't know how...Hate this feature
- —Guest jmiller098
Almost completely inaccurate
- I've given this a good workout, and only had success with the most simple and unique artist/album/song titles. One word titles work best, anything beyond that gets progressively worse.
- —Guest Johnny K
Useless
- I have a fairly neutral British accent and it very rarely gets my commands right, no matter how clearly I speak. Apparently "what time is it?" sounds like "call Tony Zee"!!! VC is completely useless.
- —Guest Glynn
Iphone Voice
- Terrible voice recognition. I have an Indian accent - but even simple names like John are not picked up
- —Guest Viraj
Doesn't understand foreign accents
- This feature is pretty cool however does not understand my Kiwi accent. If I speak in an American accent it works pretty well. Would be good if there was an option to tune the recognition.
- —Guest Jamie
New Glitch
- My VC worked flawlesly for about 6 hrs... Picked up artists like Dave Mathews Band & Gavin DeGraw, not songs though. Apple's site even says songs-not incl. Now, nothing. Won't recognize even one artist? Don't know what to do.
- —Guest Optopod
Voice Out of Control
- The voice dial is so bad it is hilarious - how can it get it sooooo wrong so many times - Microsoft Voice command which has been around for years is light years ahead of this sorry excuse for voice control
- —Guest Parrabel
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