Voice commands...real world use

[Inders99]

I posted this in the Moto Droid area since that phone is a possible upgrade for me, the LG G3 has really peaked my interest as of late too.
I'd like some feedback on the voice command usefulness as it relates to phone functions. I drive around a lot for my job and hands free functions are a priority for me. I've stopped using my contacts dialing function for my current GS3 since it's so awful. I just wait until I hit a stop sign, stop light or similar to pull up a name on my contacts list and dial it, I can't take it anymore. Would be nice just to say "dial whomever" and the phone jumps on it.
Text read back and send would be great too.

How do you like these functions on the G3?

 

[KeepItReal]

In my opinion, Google Now works great. LG's Voicemate is something to be desired. I wish I had the ability to turn off Voicemate, and use just Google Now. But, it's a cludgy fix.

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[zero cool1]

speak clearly and correctly

 

[meyerweb#CB]

I think Moto's implementation of voice control is probably superior to LG's at this point. In fact, probably superior to any.

 

[Brian Rhoden]

I have found the following problems (With my G2 and now my upgraded G3) and voice command:

If you have an entry called "Home" you must say "Dial Home Home"

I bought a Jabra Freeway and it works far better because the older Jabra visor BT hands free devices are "Not supported" as the voice will say on the device, when you try to BT dial. Half the time the older Jabra got my request wrong. As suggested in this thread, speaking clearly does help, but it still sucks big time.

Anytime I call anyone from the dial list using BT (Bluetooth) the phone's voice response runs the word "to" and your contact name together... for example my wife's name is Connie, so we get a laugh when I am "Calling t-uh-connie" mobile or "toconnie" home. (it runs all of my contact names together with the word "to") Apparently the programmer screwed up and forgot a space when concatenating "Calling to" + "Contact name"

Hopefully these things fix themselves in Lollipop 5.0 or if it's a G3 issue, have LG fix it.

Maybe I will do the cludgy fix and remove the built in voice dialer for "Dragon" at least the voice recognition is far better and you can command it to do more (like post on Facebook, run programs, and set your alarms, almost "Siri" like)

 

[zhris]

Voice Command is probably the only pain point I have with the G3 (or Android in general if you prefer). Say what you will about Windows Phone, but Cortana was a godsend... I've heard rumours about her coming to Android and iOS, I hope they do!

P.S. I realize that I said her, and not it. She's that good. ( :

 

[zhris]

Voice Command is probably the only pain point I have with the G3 (or Android in general if you prefer). Say what you will about Windows Phone, but Cortana was a godsend... I've heard rumours about her coming to Android and iOS, I hope they do!

P.S. I realize that I said her, and not it. She's that good. ( :

 

[Manscape]

New LG G3 owner here....

The voice command problems I've had are similar to Brian Rhoden's above.....I use a Blue Parrot B250-XT+ and perhaps less than 50% of the time does the phone recognize my commands....I have spoken slow and clear to accommodate the limits of the system, but still it performs poorly....

I have another Blue Tooth headset to try it with....it'd be real nice to have this feature operate with efficiency but in the meanwhile this is what I've found.....