MS VoiceCommand over BT Headset

[schwags]

Alright, I'm probably going to get flamed to high-hell for this one, but I know someone must do this, and I did a search but it matched on a whole crapload of posts, and I didn't want to go through every single page, so sorry.

Anyway, I have a bluetooth headset and MS VoiceCommand 1.6. I'm trying to make it so that I can give voice commands (such as calling someone) over the headset, and possible hear the announcer over the headset as well. Can someone PLEASE steer me in the right direction.

TIA

[Guilf]

Not sure what you need. Install it, make sure your headset is paired, either activate voice command on the phone itself and give instructions (I have mine mapped to "hold PTT - Button 6") OR when I push my multi function button (Blue Ant Z9), the voice command beeps...I then state "Call John Smith" - Voice command responds with either "Call John Smith?" (If I have only one number for Smith) or "Call John Smith Mobile or Business". Then answer the question either 1) yes or 2) mobile. Voice Command dials. You can find all the available instructions in your documentation or at the Voice Command site. Let me know if you have any other issues. I'm a total newbie and it was pretty easy to get used to it and I love the program now.

[schwags]

yeah you would think it would be that easy, but I just cannot get it to work. The BT works, and VoiceCommand works, but they don't work together....strange.

[LDJ]

Yep, was 'automatic' for me too. as soon as i recorded voice tags for my contacts i just hit the command button on the headset, wait for the prompt and say the name. it is played back and then the number dialled.

sweeeeet.

[kaluzu]

quote from another post here:
"Here is what I did:
1. Open BT Voice Command Config from Programs. Uncheck XCSdm
2. I put in 2 strings under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\VoiceCommand

Default = "\Program Files\Voice Command\voicecmd.exe"
Path = "\Program Files\Voice Command\voicecmd.exe"

I put "" around the strings - and the voicecmd.exe is SMALL case voicecmd not VoiceCmd.exe

3. Deleted the other keys under VoiceCommand
4. deleted the BT headset pairing - the paired jawbone headset again... perfect.

;-)

Don't know if you need both reg entries... but it is 5 am here... i have been up all night trying to fix this... Happy now."

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333260&page=15

[Guilf]

yeah you would think it would be that easy, but I just cannot get it to work. The BT works, and VoiceCommand works, but they don't work together....strange.

Sorry for the totally simplistic answer. Thought you just didn't get how to work it (been working with someone who is totally clueless on this locally). I think the above thread should provide the help for you. Also, try a reinstall. Mine wasn't automatic at first. When I reinstalled after I flashed my first ROM, worked fine.

[Jozer99]

I had some problems at first getting voice command to work with my bluetooth headset. If you paired your headset before installing voice command, unpair and re-pair the headset with the phone. Hopefully that will work. Also, make sure your phone isn't set to vibrate or mute. This may cause voice command to work, but you can't hear the voice prompts.

[Park City]

Try the Bluetooth extensions from JetWare. I have seen that take what I considered to be a useless headset into one that works quite well.

I have been thru MANY dozens of headsets and I have come to the conclusion that in this case more than most...you get when you pay for.

Hence, I have the Jawbone and the Sony Ericsson HBH DS980. Both work great.

Brad

[andymet]

Brad- I am also have a ds980. It works fine with voice command. However I have problems in that it often seems to drop the bluetooth connection after a call or as I am initiating a call. I can press the play button and it eventually reconnects. It works fine for listening to music and never just drops the connection. Have you had any issue with this? If so what did you do to resolve it?

[schwags]

Alright, just got it working guys! The post above from kaluzu doesn't fully work, however it contains the original post where I found the full fix. First I did what was in the kaluzu post.

And then I did this:

Originally Posted by Edvard_Greig
Hallelujah! I finally figured it out- so it did have to do with the XCSDM setting I believe... so here is what I did for anyone else that is wondering:

1. Installed MSVC 1.6 (from the link in the TNT ROM posted earlier)
2. Soft Reset
3a. Made registry change to set Path = \Program Files\Voice Command\voicecmd.exe (no quotes)
3b. Change button assignment (assigned to Button 6/PTT in my case)
4. Soft Reset
5. Enable XCSDM
6. Soft Reset
7. Disable XCSDM
8. Soft Reset
9. Pair Bluetooth Headset

It seems to be working...the best I can figure is that when it initially gets installed the XCSDM doesn't have any value at all, but by enabling it, and then disabling it, it actually turns it off as opposed to having a null value. Also note that since I am using Alex's 'UltraClean' ROM, there were never any Cyberon installation traces, and therefore I ignored those sections.

In any case it seems to be working great and I'm very happy.

Thank you everyone for all your help, and hopefully what I listed above will help someone else.