Nokia 3120 Classical Voice Recognition

I have been using my phone for some time some time and recently tested out its voice recognition feature. At first voice recognition did not work very good with me. But after some training it seemed to understand the commands I spoke to it. Training was done without the headset as I rarely use it.

I checked it out the devices capability in various environments, some of them which were very noisy. Having a contact list of about 400 speech recognition is one of the most important features of a phone to me.

In calm environments, it recognized almost every name I have spoken. But in certain cases, it seemed not to pick up what I said. It may have been caused by my Asian English accent. But this was never a problem to me.

In my day to day activity, I used the phone is noisy and packed Sri Lankan busses, trains and noisy blocked roads. Results I obtained were poor, but not very bad. Although it shows capability to recognize names I speak in noisy environments, I prefer to use the old fashioned method of reaching them.

Overall performance is good without the headset is ‘not bad’. But not good enough for me.