I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

Metspitzer wrote:
I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

A few observations:

A. If the names are numbered, you might get by with just entering a number
(if you can remember the association).
B. Get a 'phone with a larger screen so you can see the numbers.
C. Go by a Sprint store and explain your problem to the technician. Maybe he
can load the hillbilly dialect detection circuit
D. (My favorite) Get contact lenses for reading (usually a "+" number). Wear
only one. That way you can read, but the fuzzy distance doesn't interfere
with long-distance depth perception, as in driving. There are, however, two
problems associated with this scheme:
I. Some people's brain explodes as it tries to deal with conflicting
information, and
II. Depth perception at less than 18" suffers somewhat.

"Metspitzer" wrote

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time.

You are on the right track by changing names. I had a problem with calling
hOme as the pronunciation was mistaken for O and the phone wanted to dial
zero. It is now listed as "my house" and the accuracy has been perfect.
Joan wan another problem with the O sound no I now use her last name.

Does the phone have speed dial? I can have 10 numbers that all I have to do
is press and hold a button down for a few seconds and it dials the assigned
number.

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:58:32 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Metspitzer wrote:
I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

A few observations:

A. If the names are numbered, you might get by with just entering a number
(if you can remember the association).

It's been a couple years, but a friend, which carrier he uses I don't
know, complained that he could say 2 and it would dial phone number 2,
but he couldn't say 2 1 2- 2 3 4 - 5 6 7 8 and have it dial that
number. He had a lot more use for that, when he was driving. I
wonder if they ever fixed it.

B. Get a 'phone with a larger screen so you can see the numbers.
C. Go by a Sprint store and explain your problem to the technician. Maybe he
can load the hillbilly dialect detection circuit
D. (My favorite) Get contact lenses for reading (usually a "+" number). Wear
only one. That way you can read, but the fuzzy distance doesn't interfere
with long-distance depth perception, as in driving. There are, however, two
problems associated with this scheme:
I. Some people's brain explodes as it tries to deal with conflicting
information, and
II. Depth perception at less than 18" suffers somewhat.

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 23:32:39 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:


"Metspitzer" wrote

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time.

You are on the right track by changing names. I had a problem with calling
hOme as the pronunciation was mistaken for O and the phone wanted to dial
zero. It is now listed as "my house" and the accuracy has been perfect.
Joan wan another problem with the O sound no I now use her last name.

Does the phone have speed dial? I can have 10 numbers that all I have to do
is press and hold a button down for a few seconds and it dials the assigned
number.

It does have a speed dial, and I guess that is what I am going to have
to use. I really wanted VR to work though. I was messing with
another feature from Google called GOOG-411.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
It works just about as poorly, but when you are away from a phone book
it is useful to give it a try.

Has anyone besides me noticed that GOOG-411 is using a human voice to
emulate a computer sound?

It asks for a business and city state. It would be cool if it used
GPS to at least start with businesses in your area.

On Aug 7, 9:42*pm, Metspitzer wrote:
I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. *If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. *The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. *Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. *I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. * I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. *I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? * *No, I didn't say Pam. *Well it couldn't
get it. *I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. *It still misses it half of the time. *It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. *You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. *Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. *You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

It thinks dan is pam, make dan, pam [ then it will probably say, Do
you mean spam]. My motorola does the same thing and I gave up. I
figure its a feature they thought they could gain sales with and knew
it didnt work but included it any way,

Metspitzer wrote in
news
I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

I never wore glasses until 45 or so when my arms were getting too short
grin. After wearing reading glasses for a while, my eyes got also a
bit worse for real distance and got some astigmatism. I went for real
prescription glasses with graduated focus. As explained to me, you
either get used to them in about 10 days, or not. Just try real hard.
I did and after about a week of annoying vision, it "clicked", and I
haven't looked back. I like humongous glasses, and nowadays they're not
so easy to get, but I like preipheral vision. For the relatively low
degree of correction, I don't want contacts. Maybe I would have at 30 or
35, but not now.

I have never used the VR on my iPhone, because I'm too cheap to pay extra
for it grin.

--
Best regards
Han
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If your cell phone VR thinks DAN is PAM, try reprogramming that number
as ... DAN HOME, DAN CELL, or DAN WORK, for each of those contact
numbers.

Be creative with voice commands when encountering a name that your VR
has difficulty recognizing.

Also, cell phones are sensitive to extraneous noises, so speak the name
in a relatively quiet environment, and hold the phone close to your
mouth. Speak the way you normally do - don't shout.

My cell phone - a Nokia - recognizes my wife's voice, as well as mine.

Joe

On 8/7/2010 10:42 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

I lot depends on how much effort they put into it when designing the
phone. I had one phone that was just as you described and others that
were really decent. Current phone is really decent when using the BT
speakerphone.

If voice recognition is an important feature for you it is a good idea
to try out the various phones that can be used on your carrier.

On Aug 8, 8:01*am, (J O E) wrote:
If your cell phone VR thinks DAN is PAM, try reprogramming that number
as ... DAN HOME, DAN CELL, or DAN WORK, for each of those contact
numbers.

Be creative with voice commands when encountering a name that your VR
has difficulty recognizing.

Also, cell phones are sensitive to extraneous noises, so speak the name
in a relatively quiet environment, and hold the phone close to your
mouth. Speak the way you normally do - don't shout.

My cell phone - a Nokia - recognizes my wife's voice, as well as mine.

Joe


my commonly called numbers are all speed dials, i just open phone and
press ONE button...

no messing with speech recognition

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:26:09 -0700, Evan Platt
wrote:

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:42:07 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

alt.cellular.sprintpcs,
alt.cellular ...

Look through the alt.cellular hierarchy

The keyword was "active"

On 08 Aug 2010 11:26:45 GMT, Han wrote:

Metspitzer wrote in
news
I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

I never wore glasses until 45 or so when my arms were getting too short
grin. After wearing reading glasses for a while, my eyes got also a
bit worse for real distance and got some astigmatism. I went for real
prescription glasses with graduated focus. As explained to me, you
either get used to them in about 10 days, or not. Just try real hard.
I did and after about a week of annoying vision, it "clicked", and I
haven't looked back. I like humongous glasses, and nowadays they're not
so easy to get, but I like preipheral vision. For the relatively low
degree of correction, I don't want contacts. Maybe I would have at 30 or
35, but not now.

I didn't need glasses until I was 54 and it was a *quick* progression from
cheaters to prescription bifocals. I needed bifocals for computer screens (so
have the biggest lenses I can get). I don't want graduated focus because the
screen is pretty much equidistant from my eyes and the keyboard is also, more
or less. The bottom glass is also good for reading books. I can still get by
without correction for distance, but I too have picked up an astigmatism, so
that won't be long. The only problem I have with driving is that the
instruments are too close. ;-)

I have never used the VR on my iPhone, because I'm too cheap to pay extra
for it grin.

I'm far too cheap to own an iPhone.

" wrote in
:

I'm far too cheap to own an iPhone.

Lol

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Best regards
Han
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