Anyone else having an issue with unresponsive voice command recognition? I find I have to repeat myself nearly every time, just to be recognized.
1566246
Voice commands always kind of sucked on the Samsung TV's. Was bad on the previous year's flagship, and wasn't much improved in this one. Though in testing, speaking into the mic on the remote did pick up better, but speak slowly.
1566247
I have that problem more with my kids than the TV. Agree that you need to speak slowly and as clearly as possible. Certainly not perfect.
2036869
I am having the same problem but suspect it involves the driver or settings and am checking that out first. I would not return it if that is your only problem. Wait til a few more join in the discussion or I find something more about where the problem is. I loaded Skype and it works right up to the point of detecting my voice.
2146474
You may have to activate the voice commands feature. To do that, hold down the volume and call buttons simultaneously until the indicator light blinks twice. This should activate your voice commands.
1032553
Yes. I rarely use voice activation, because there's always a syllable missed as it activates. I don't think I've ever seen a recorder that only worked via voice activation.
779542
Thanks for the information :( I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. Maybe in time someone will figure out a workaround .
1254171
Good Friggin! Grief! I search for an hours to find a solution to this problem and Space Ace solved it. I cannot believe these dumb !!!@@@# at Philips don't have this anywhere online. Hopefully if I put: Problem: Philips VOIP8411B Handset won't Re-Register in this reply it will guide others to this solution. Press and hold page button on base station and then press register on handset. 3 Cheers Space Ace...3 Cheers.
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Yes, you can do voice commands. I don't remember how to do it, but Plantronics has an excellent customer service department. They can walk you through it. I've been procrastinating about doing it, but it's a wonderful feature.
804044
I have no experience with Dragon or voice recognition software, sorry I can't help you there. I'll try testing it though.
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I didn't have a recognition problem, but did have to reset the battery statistics; is used this method (https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/752478) which worked fine. Worked well right up until we took a swim... :-)
84991
I have this same problem. Basically, the microphone on this phone doesn't pick up my voice well enough and the person on the other end has to keep saying "what?". I am returning the phone. I tried 2 different ones and both were the same. Otherwise, I loved the phone. I also tried this side by side with other cordless phones and the difference is significant. Panasonic tech support could not help fix the problem.
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my friends said i sounded "HORRIBLE", and "in a tin can", etc. two said to put my broken logitech headset back on because it sounded better, lol. My other issue with these headsets was not being FULLY compatible with Win7 64bit to where you can't even use the voice morphing which is just for fun anyway but still regrettably unusable with my OS.
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No, there is NO voice recognition software that can do this at all well in 2012. You know how when you call an airline or bank and get into arguments with their voice recognition software that tries to listen to what you need? It's a long-term goal to develop reliable voice transcription that can listen to multiple people with multiple voicings and dialects speaking conversationally, but it's not even close to being implemented yet. Right now, the state of the art for voice recognition, which Dragon employs, is that each user develops his or her own personal user profile that gets more accurate the more it's used. Dragon can only use one user profile per session. The software has to be restarted to load a different user profile for a different speaker, so it's totally impractical in a meeting- or courtroom-type setting where several people may speak a sentence or two in turn. Dragon would do a very poor job in this setting without restarting it to change to a different user profile as the speaker changed--way too many errors to be useful. There is transcription hardware available elsewhere that tries to work around this using Dragon and Word. You need a translator, who re-dictates what he or she hears the meeting or courtroom participants say as they're speaking, much like a foreign translator at the United Nations. This person wears a device that looks like an oxygen mask (to focus the input to Dragon to that user profile, and also to reduce the noise in the meeting or courtroom from having another person speak simultaneously). The people who sell this hardware say that it works well and saves years of practice with a stenography machine such as the ones used by courtroom reporters. I haven't tried it, so I can't say if it's a good workaround, though I do agree that in theory, it sounds workable with a little practice on the part of the re-dictator.
770003
When I had it, it would almost never recognise what i have said. Maybe they have had a firmware update.
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Big time thanks!!!!! TTS worked. I changed voice to Brittish English and didn't chose the TTS. It was my mistake. I will have to contack Garmin about the error message. Thanks again!!!!!!
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Glenn,I was reading a number of reviews a little earlier. One individual said you have to select a 'computer' voice. . .the female version is Samantha. . .I don't recall the name for the male voice. I haven't tried downloading either voice yet, but will sometime early on.
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Pat - you were right! I did change the voice & didn't know what TTS was... It works great now. Thanks!
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Hit or miss, I have been having a hard time getting it to recognize anything