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Voice calling on mpx220
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Posted by: slocko

I know BengalBoy wasn't too thrilled with the voice program but I am wondering if it's good enough to use in the car via a bluetooth carkit?

I am considering the parrot system 3000 without the display and the 3100 with the display.

I figure if the voice program is good enough for dialing, I can use it and have no need for the external display.

Any people out there actively using the voice dialing features? Does it repeat the name tag if the call coming in is in your contacts?

Posted by: JoeCoolGT

Voice Dial works great for me.

You press and hold the volume up side button and its asks for a command. Say "voice dial" then say the name of the contact. If it recognizes it for sure and you only have one number, it dials. If it isn't sure it will ask you to verify "Bob Smith, is this correct" you say yes. If you have more than one number saved it will ask "which number" you say "home". It dials. Has worked everytime for me.

In reality it goes even quicker once you are used to it.

Posted by: amg212

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Originally posted by slocko
I know BengalBoy wasn't too thrilled with the voice program but I am wondering if it's good enough to use in the car via a bluetooth carkit?

I am considering the parrot system 3000 without the display and the 3100 with the display.

I figure if the voice program is good enough for dialing, I can use it and have no need for the external display.

Any people out there actively using the voice dialing features? Does it repeat the name tag if the call coming in is in your contacts?

The MPX220's voice dialing does not work with Bluetooth. It's a limitation of the Microsoft Bluetooth stack (which will hopefully change in the future, but not necessarily on this phone)

I use a Bluetooth kit but still have to use the phone itself for voicedialing.

The unfortunate part is that, unlike a perfect Bluetooth situation, I still have to handle the phone. However, flipping the phone open and holding the volume key is something I can easily do with one hand, and the microphone on the phone is good enough that, even with a lot of road noise, it correctly recognized what I was saying with the phone held a few feet away. Not a perfect solution, but it still let me use the voice recognition (which is amazingly accurate)

If you need to have true Bluetooth-based voice dialing, I think some of the Parrot systems have their own built-in voice recognition (not sure).

As for announcing the name of a caller, no dice. You can have distinctive ringtones, but the only way it will recite the name is if you create a sound file for just that purpose. (The built-in voicedialing doesn't use pre-recorded tags, anyway - it matches your voice via some algorithm to the contacts directory)