Google Voice Search Fails

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I was trying out Google's voice search on my S2 last night to see what functions I could perform with it. One cool thing is being able to play music (this is for JB+) just by saying "Listen to x.y.z".

I then discovered that some phrases or collections of words seem impossible for the voice search to figure out, the results however were quite amusing

Take on my challenge and try to get voice search to recongnise the following:

"Listen to turpentine"


I must have sounded like an idiot but I think I tried over 30 times to get it to recognise this and eventually got it (had to speak like a robot). The funny thing is that it often gives completely different results for the same phrase the most popular being:

- Listen to open times
- Lesotho curtain ties

Got some other random ones, some were hilarious.

Have any other phrases which your phone can't recognise?

 

[CoolBug]

When I dock my RAZR into its nav dock, when I get an sms, it speaks and says you have got a message from xyz.. Say listen to hear the message.

I sometimes say listen 20 times, eventually I try different accents and dialects, like a yank or pommy accent, it's more for humour though as I see this as more gimmicky than anything else.

Although the Navigate to xyz works very nicely.

I'm still praying for my ICS OTA

The reason I think these voice features are all round fail is because you have to be at your phone, pressing a button, wtf may as well press a button to do what you want?
This will get interesting if you can talk to your phone without having to press a button.

 

[Cyclone101]

I was driving in jhb the other day and asked "where is the nearest kfc" and it popped up a map of them. Worked perfectly!

But trying to call my contacts from it is crazy funny with afrikaans names, I sometimes do it just for fun.

 

[CoolBug]

I suppose it's really awesome for driving, when it does work