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Bluetooth Voice Dial - MPx220 - Windows Mobile 5
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Posted by: kingbear2

Does anyone have any idea as to whether Bluetooth Voice Dial will work once the MPx220 comes out with a Windows Mobile 2005 update? I am dying to get a phone that I can use BT Voice Dial with, but I don't want to buy a new phone if the MPx will eventually have an update that will make it work.

In addition, I've heard that BT Voice Dial on the SMT5600 works even with WM2003. Can anyone confirm this? I see that as a big enough reason to switch from the MPx to the SMT.

Thanks

Posted by: cortez

...works like a charm on the 5600 and WM03... i would expect it to work with WM05 and the next crop of smartphones...it would be disappointing if it doesn't work.

Posted by: Omega2008

The SMT uses Voice Tags, thats why it works via BT. The MPx 220 uses Voice Reconition which gives you didget dialing and application launch by voice. WM5 supports Voice Tags, it is up to a 3rd party sofware developer to make speech reconition work via BT.

Posted by: rosullivan04

Is there even a WM5 version for MPx220?

Posted by: gryph0n

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Originally Posted by rosullivan04

Is there even a WM5 version for MPx220?

In short... NO! At least not one that is available and will work on anyphone. The betas that were tested with the phone were "keyed" for that particular phone so the ROM couldn't be "copied" and used on another...

Posted by: conan_troutman

Vito voice dialler is a programme that works with mpx 220 to allow you to add voice tags to contacts thus enabling BT voicedialing....this is an old topic make voice tags make a quick dial button to the programme and away you go unfortunately you cant start the programme with out touching our phone at least once to initiate the programme

Posted by: thielsa

For this to be an effective feature, I'd expect a Pocket PC Voice Command feature that does not require voice tags. Hopefully we will quickly get a view on this from someone who is an early adopter of Windows Mobile 5 as this is a huge purchase feature for me to upgrade.

Posted by: Mashie

There were no betas for the MPx220, the betas were using the old MPx200.

Posted by: Sprayed Dog

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....this is an old topic make voice tags make a quick dial button to the programme and away you go unfortunately you cant start the programme with out touching our phone at least once to initiate the programme

Yeah, and unfortunately that means it would be easier to 'speed-dial' ...

Posted by: MrDSL

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Originally Posted by cortez

...works like a charm on the 5600 and WM03... i would expect it to work with WM05 and the next crop of smartphones...it would be disappointing if it doesn't work.

Also note that this does not work when the keypad is locked so it makes it useless..

Posted by: Omega2008

I am willing to bet that a registry key controls this. I am sure that you can use BT voice dial with the keypad locked. Its either in the XML for the keypad lock feature or a registry setting in the registry. To bad I don't have a SMT so you guys will have to figure that out.

Posted by: jonazen

It's not necessarily a simple solution. I've learned from the folks at VoiceSignal (whose speaker independent voice dialing software powers MANY of the phones with that feature) that the path from the bluetooth headset into the phone and the guts of the operating system is critical - and varies widely with each phone.

In earlier versions of WM (pre version 5), the way bluetooth connections were handled by the phone and the OS made it virtually impossible to take advantage of VoiceSignal's speaker independent name dialling features. The Audiovox SMT5600 (really an HTC typhoon implementation) features a work-around that lets it use voice tags for name dialling with bluetooth -- but not true speaker independent name dialling.

So far, there are only a few phones on the market that actually support speaker independent name and digit dialling over bluetooth, in which the headset can initiate the call (e.g., phone in your pocket or briefcase, tap the connect button on your bluetooth headphone and say, "call Jon at work" when it beeps). The Nokia 6682's implementation of SIND should actually let you do this (when you pay for the full version of VoiceSignal's software, which comes on the dual voltage RSMMC in a 7-day trial version). My understanding is that one or two of the phones featured by Verizon can do this too, as well as the Samsung p207 and a Panasonic phone (x700 or 800 I think???).

It's a shame this has proven so tough for manufacturers. It's not discussed very much, but I know that *I* would find it incredibly helpful to be able to initiate any call on my cell phone via voice command through my bluetooth headset...