Comments on: TiPb Video: iPhone 3G S Multilingual Voice Control Challenge

By: Ignacio

Ignacio — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:36:16 +0000

I have tried for days the new Voice Control feauture in my iPhone 3GS and it’s terrible. The success rate was less than 20% in catching the correct name. It was very frustrating experience. This new function is a yoke! Apple needs to learn from Nokia, Motorola or others in voice control.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:18:51 +0000

I’m from Northern Ireland and the Voice Control feature is terrible at picking up my accent (or it might just be my terrible accent). Pity you couldn’t teach the phone to recognise your voice like some Nokias.

By: AlexXF

AlexXF — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:41:30 +0000

Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (China) Chinese (Taiwan) Dutch English (UK) English (U.S.) Finnish French (Canada) French (France) German Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Russian Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Swedish

By: iBroken

iBroken — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:37:35 +0000

no Arabic ?

By: Big Willie

Big Willie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:14:56 +0000

@BarrackObama

Better than a President not knowing how to pronounce common English words or what they mean... cough BUSH! cough

By: Truth

Truth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:06:12 +0000

@ Omari James

The fanboy returns. Steve is waiting for his massage.

By: Omari James

Omari James — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:33:45 +0000

@Truth

Your display name serves you no justice

The ending was funny. " Cawl Dee-der bawn " ^_^

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:58:56 +0000

Wow the accents were absolutely ridiculous at the end. HAHAHA.. And hey I have the mirror screen protector too! and hey WTF is that light beside the speaker…!?!

By: Truth

Truth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:17:00 +0000

@BarackObama

You might destroy the Republican Party and win a few elections.

By: Truth

Truth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:16:14 +0000

Why is this not in the 3g?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:29:47 +0000

No Polish?

By: UKboy

UKboy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:30:25 +0000

Very impressive Rene!

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:24:53 +0000

Yeah, okay, that was freakin cool!

By: BarackObama

BarackObama — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:15:15 +0000

I wonder…. what happens….. when you have … halting speech patterns …. like me.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:01:33 +0000

Immmmmpressive.

By: zagman76

zagman76 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:01:04 +0000

It will also recognize Klingon…

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:48:14 +0000

Is that a frontfacing camera on your iPhone? Or is that just one of those three sensors? Just curious

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:34:19 +0000

It distinguished Rene Ritchie from Ronnie Ritchie (my uncle) with no problem. If it gets confused, it tells you there are multiple possibilities and asks you to choose. Should have included that in the video, sorry

By: SpiceRak2

SpiceRak2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:10:35 +0000

That was a pretty awesome test!

@Rene Are there a large number of contacts in your phone?

It would be interesting to do a voice control test with a large contact list to see if there are any issues...with my previous smartphone (Treo 650), voice commands were thwarted by similar sounding names in my contact list. I think this may have been one of the issues with the earlier version of the Google app, too.

Commands like "call" and "play" are going to be much easier, even with accents because those commands are one of very few options preset on the iPhone. But what if you say, "Call Evenson"? Historically you would get "Stevenson" or even "Stephanie" as a contact. I don't know if there would be the same issue for a large music library, but contacts have traditionally been susceptible.

By: Dmys

Dmys — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:40:00 +0000

LOL, didn't know he could speak so many languages.

If people are having trouble with the recognition, I'm sure Apple will hear about it and get a fix going on, everything looks good right now though.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:35:56 +0000

Which version of iTunes must be installed so as not to cause a problem with quickpwn 3.0 (jailbreak) once it is released?

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:26:28 +0000

Fixed, sorry!

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:11:26 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od0xBzV-HUk

here it is

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:02:14 +0000

Why has it been removed.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:01:14 +0000

Why do the YouTube links on this site never work? And what happened to the iPhone version of the site?

By: Jessi (jessi_9783)

Jessi (jessi_9783) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:58:20 +0000

Video has been removed by user.