Voice Search Not Working for Contacts

[sjamie]

If I say "Call John Frank", Voice Search does a GOOGLE search on John Frank instead of searching my contacts for John Frank. I've been searching online for a solution and have tried all of the recommendations like:
- Making sure my default language is English (US).
- Downloading the latest version of Voice Search from the Market.
- Clearing Voice Search's data from the Settings menu.
- Syncing all of my contacts with my Gmail account.

None of the above actions has resulted in a solution. Any other ideas? Anyone else experiencing the same thing?

 

[djmiked]

Try using "Voice Command" instead of Voice Search.

 

[sjamie]

I deleted and resynced my contacts with my Gmail account and rebooted again. It seems to be working for the moment. Keeping fingers crossed!

 

[jlewis]

Voice Search only searches Google (gmail) contacts.

Voice Commands will search all contacts on the phone even if they are not sync'd w/ google.

I've recently tried Vlingo, and really like it. It seems to combine all Voice Search & Voice Commands into one app, and it is very accurate in its voice recognition.