Google Voice Control

[alexlevy117]

I am another one to add to the list for sending email or text messages to people in my contact list and it doesn't populate the 'to' field. I was one of the unfortunate ones to pay for Vlingo weeks ago but I find Vlingo to be far more accurate in voice action as far as sending texts and emails. The search and navigate functions work well also. I think now that Vlingo is free, it is a much better alternative than the updated google voice action.
Just my opinion...

 

[capnhowdy18]

Isn't it voice search? not voice action?

 

[mrhankey184]

Ok, the above poster on page two def had the right idea with the issue. ALL of your contacts MUST be linked properly to your gmail account thats in your Sync Settings or it will NOT work. For some odd reason I thought it would pick up my 2000 plus contacts linked from exchange but it will not.

My question is, how do I go about changing ALL of my exchange contacts to google contacts to make this actually work? I have tried a few areas and it doesnt give me an option to change an account from exchange to google.

 

[capnhowdy18]

If you export all your contacts to vcf file on your sd card. Delete out your old ones, then reimport the backup file, I believe you can set them all as google contacts.

 

[mrhankey184]

How do you delete the contacts easily? Is there an option to delete all of my Exchange contacts?

 

[chefkeyser]

I am another one to add to the list for sending email or text messages to people in my contact list and it doesn't populate the 'to' field. I was one of the unfortunate ones to pay for Vlingo weeks ago but I find Vlingo to be far more accurate in voice action as far as sending texts and emails. The search and navigate functions work well also. I think now that Vlingo is free, it is a much better alternative than the updated google voice action.
Just my opinion...

I have 2.1 on my phone, and 2.1 it will always be. I downloaded the free Vlingo app and it's been one-hundred percent accurate. My thought is, if Vlingo can make this available for a 2.1 device, there has to be a reason Google hasn't. The software can obviously handle it.

 

[capnhowdy18]

@mrhankey184 Unfortunately that I don't have an answer for. I mean a hard reset would work, but may be undesirable.

 

[chadrenshaw]

Try exporting all contacts to SD card and then reimporting them using your gmail account rather than phone. Worked for me. Still not perfect, but a much improved experience. Texts and Email contacts now work via speech, where as they did not before.

 

[MartinRW]

Yesterday, the app seemed to work fine, but today, no matter what command I give, it tells me that there's a connection error

 

[Wanda]

Try exporting all contacts to SD card and then reimporting them using your gmail account rather than phone. Worked for me. Still not perfect, but a much improved experience. Texts and Email contacts now work via speech, where as they did not before.

Not to resurrect an old dead thread here but I'm trying to use the new version of voice control and having the same issue where it puts everything including the contact name in the body of the message rather than putting the contact in the "to" section.

Can anyone expand on exporting the contacts to sd, then reimport. I get how to export to the sd card but i'm not sure of the reimporting them using gmail. If i export to sd, am i supposed to do then delete from the contact section of the phone, and if so, won't that delete them from my gmail since they're tied together?

 

[marcw]

Try this, 2 solutions. goto settings,accounts, and make sure your sync is on for contacts in the correct gmail account. Only gmail works.

use the word message when starting the actually msg, seems to work better.
ie; send text to MOM message hi mom.