Use Voice Command Through BT Headset, Avoid Registry Hacking

[Jon Westfall]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.burling.co.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=150' target='_blank'>http://www.burling.co.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=150</a><br /><br /></div><i>"You are happy with your new Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition. Either a HTC Universal or a HTC Wizard. You also decided to install Microsoft Voice Command, but then realise that you can't activate Voice Command from your Bluetooth headset and dial a number or contact! There is a registry change floating around that will enable this functionality, but you have to manually apply the change through a registry editor. And we all know how dangerous this can be."</i><br /><br />If you're a bit leary of playing around with that mighty, formidable opponent known as the registry (Where one small mistake can mean disaster), then this little utility may be what you're looking for! While advertised for the K-Jam, I'm assuming this would work on the JasJar (Or other Wizard / Universal variants as well).

[Coe62]

This is a great hack BUT seems to only work on HTC devices. Now if only we could have one for the Eten M600 to loose that damn cybertron voice command for good .... :lol:

[PPCMD]

Haven't had a chance yet, but does it work on ALL of the HTC Devices like the Palm Treo 700w?

[adamz]

So some one put a registry hack into a CAB file? Woo hoo!

Tweaks2k2 has this Voice Command setting application functionality too.

[kohls]

PPC 6700 (Sprint) is HTC device, right ?

[Bacco]

I tried this hack and can't seem to get it to work. I ran the app and choose Voice Command rather than the defaul dialer and still nothing. I am using it on a k-jam with a nXZEN 5500 headset.

Can anyone think of anything I may have missed?

Thanks.

[aNiMeMaN14]

Any luck with WM2003SE devices (or in my case, the Jam)?

[beedee]

I installed the cab-file on my ppc, yet how &amp; where can I open the program and make the required settings? I can't open the program anywhere on my ppc. It does not show up in the list of programs (however if I go to the delete-programs app, it is there an can be removed from the ppc).

[Bacco]

If you use file explorer and click on the app in its folder, that will start it and you can select which dialer to use.

Hope that helps.

[beedee]

Doesn't seem to work on my qtek 9100 with German system and German (trial) version of Voice Command installed. The program keeps on telling me that Voice Command is not installed, altough it definitely is and can be used, just not with the BT headset.

[gabrandt]

anyone know if there will ever be a new version of voice command intended for wm5 devices? I'd like to switch my qtek 9100 but would also like MS to support wm5 for their app. (I could say the same for pocket streets) I really like using the smart buttons versus having to grab a stylus. better/integrated BT headset support would be a welcome side-effect of a newer version right?

[tamoochin]

I have changed the key in the registery manually in k-jam .I
cannot wake up the device by pushing the button on the headset but it works when the device is on standby mode?????

[Darius Wey]

anyone know if there will ever be a new version of voice command intended for wm5 devices? I'd like to switch my qtek 9100 but would also like MS to support wm5 for their app. (I could say the same for pocket streets) I really like using the smart buttons versus having to grab a stylus. better/integrated BT headset support would be a welcome side-effect of a newer version right?

The current version of Voice Command does have issues on a few Windows Mobile 5.0-based devices, and I doubt Microsoft would choose this current point in time to cease development. It is the most successful voice application on the Pocket PC, and it only makes sense for them to continue to enhance the product and improve its support for their latest platform. Of course, I can't give you a release date or a list of bug fixes for a new version, so you'll just have to sit tight and let time be the storyteller.

[Sven Johannsen]

would also like MS to support wm5 for their app. (I could say the same for pocket streets) I really like using the smart buttons versus having to grab a stylus.
:wink: They sort of did, without intending to. There was always this underlaying goal of consolidating the platforms by creating a common code base. That hasn't exactly happened from the app programmers, but the potential is there.

If you try to install the Smartphone version of Pocket Streets on your PPC it will fail, but it will leave the cab under the MS ActiveSync folder. If you drag the PS Smartphone cab to your PPC and execute it, it will actually install the smartphone version. It works fine, but it does not expect or react to screen taps on the map. You can tap the on screen soft keys, but that's about it. Other than that it works like the SP version. D-pad scrolls and zooms in, left soft key (hardware or screen) zooms out. Right soft key is the menu. When you get into text entry screens though you can use the SIPs or the keyboard. It's kind of neat. I have this on my JasJar.

I'm pretty sure I've heard the Smartphone version of Mapopolis works this way as well. I think I read someone putting it on a K-Jam. Would make it pretty easy to operate one handed when closed.

Probably a lot of WM5 SP software that will run fine on a WM5 PPC or PPCPE. You just have to understand there are times when the stylus won't do what you expect, and you will have to use hardware keys/buttons.

The trick for developers is to make a full featured app that never NEEDS a stylus, but can benefit by having one.

[Eriq Cook]

If you use file explorer and click on the app in its folder, that will start it and you can select which dialer to use.

Hope that helps.

???

There's a folder called VoiceEnableSetup with four files in it, but I am not able to start any thing (all of the files just return a "no app associated" error). Can't find a related folder anywhere else...

[victore]

tamoochin, this is the case with my qtek 9100. when my phone is in standby mode, pressing the button on my headset does not wake it up.

all, i seem to have a problem with voicecommand not recognizing my commands. it's not a function of my headset, because voicecommand repeats my command and when i answer yes, i get a negative beep (lower toned) and the command does not work. i then have to push the button on my headset to close the audio channel, then press it again to try it again. it will sometimes take me 3 to 4 attempts before it dials out correctly.

[tamoochin]

tamoochin, this is the case with my qtek 9100. when my phone is in standby mode, pressing the button on my headset does not wake it up.

all, i seem to have a problem with voicecommand not recognizing my commands. it's not a function of my headset, because voicecommand repeats my command and when i answer yes, i get a negative beep (lower toned) and the command does not work. i then have to push the button on my headset to close the audio channel, then press it again to try it again. it will sometimes take me 3 to 4 attempts before it dials out correctly.
thanks for your help.
so, I think this makes it useless because most of the times when i am using voice command either microsoft or built in software, i am driving or skiing so i cannot wake up the device easily; do you now any soloution for this issue?

[Sven Johannsen]

Came across this while browsing
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/02/03/524289.aspx

Take it for what it's worth, as some of the responses have already taken the view that Mike is wrong. What I take away from this is that VC over a BTH shouldn't work very well due to the digitization issue. So getting the BTH to initiate VC properly and natively, probably isn't high on MSs list of things to do until they feel it should actually work well.

[victore]

So there are two issues:

1) Is there a way to get a WM 5.0 device to "wake up" with the touch of a button either on a wired headset or BT one

2) How to get VC over BTh to work reliably

1) I don't have the wired headset that came with my Qtek handy, so I can't test out whether pushing the button on it will active VC. Can someone else try this out?

2) I understand the article and realize why recognition on a BTh may be spotty, but my issue appears to be after my command is recognized, so this would mean that VC understood my request to dial a number, but somehow VC doesn't actually tell the OS to dial it.

[tamoochin]

So there are two issues:

1) Is there a way to get a WM 5.0 device to "wake up" with the touch of a button either on a wired headset or BT one

2) How to get VC over BTh to work reliably

1) I don't have the wired headset that came with my Qtek handy, so I can't test out whether pushing the button on it will active VC. Can someone else try this out?

2) I understand the article and realize why recognition on a BTh may be spotty, but my issue appears to be after my command is recognized, so this would mean that VC understood my request to dial a number, but somehow VC doesn't actually tell the OS to dial it.
I don't have the problem of having recognized the command after saying yes or no,maybe it is because that k-jam natively supports bluetooth head-set but if you cannot run the voice command easily with one tap it worth nothing.
I had an sony-ericsson p900 and it was amazing because not only by taping a button it simply ran the voice software but also it had magic sound that you could run the voice software by saying somthing to the phone (not tapping anything).I think windows mobile is far from user freindly activating voice command via bluetooth. :(
but maybe there will be a hack in the registery.if i found it,i will write it here.
Thanks.

[dignow96]

I just loaded this little app/hack/whatever onto my new imate Jamin and in the last 24 four hours it has worked perfectly. I'm using a Cardo Scala 500 BTH with it. The Scala has some very nice features to it already and this little app just adds one more. The VC prompts are low in volume but completely audible through the headset and honestly I'm have a much better result with VC understanding me through the headset then it was directly through the device's microphone. Granted I've only initiated maybe a few dozen calls over the last day but not once has the headset failed to initialize VC and not once has VC failed to understand what I was saying. Really, I can't say enough great things about this little app working within the hardware framework that I'm using.

[adamz]

The VC prompts are low in volume but completely audible through the headset and honestly I'm have a much better result with VC understanding me through the headset then it was directly through the device's microphone.

Yep, and don't forget the JAMin has the best Bluetooth implementation among Pocket PC Phones. So even using a bluetooth headset with VC on the JAMin is way better than using it with a KJAM.