[Eric Immerman]

Is anybody else having a problem with Voice and song Recognition not working. I always get, "Sorry couldn't hear anything". People can hear me fine on my speaker phone. So I know the microphone works. But it does not recognize any speech.

The other interesting thing is that when I tell it to listen to music to figure out the song. It always finds the same song even when the phone is in complete silence. It finds "Workout by Vicious Circle & Universal Project." I can only assume that album is nothing but silence.;)

Another interesting fact is the voice recognition works fine via a Bluetooth connection to my car.

Any thoughts?

[Squatting Hen]

This doesn't help, but I can't get it to work without WIFI on my WP 7.5 Titan II...never have. It only works for me on WIFI. I do have the setting set to Enable Speech Over the Network.

Does yours work with WIFI?

[Eric Immerman]

Nope, doesn't matter if WIFI is connected or not.

[jleebiker]

Sometimes it works, most times it doesn't. Doesn't matter if it is connected to Wifi or not. Using Trophy on Verizon.

[MLundell]

I have the same thing happening in certain situations Get "Sorry couldn't hear anything". For me, it looks like this happens when bluetooth is enabled and I am in range of a paired device, otherwise it seems to work. Sounds like a software update from MS is in order! (Nokia 920 on AT&T)

[rockstarzzz]

Works flawlessly here. Even purchased HeyDJ! today and that has just worked out of the box nicely.

[iamtim]

I'm on an 8X and it works flawlessly; in fact, I stumbled upon it accidentally not knowing it existed in WP8. As far as actual recognition is concerned, it outperformed my buddy's Siri on his iPhone 4s (although Siri did search faster, I think that's because on iOS it's all done with one app whereas on WP8 it shells the recognized text out to the Bing app for searching. So there was the "opening the app" time to deal with.)

[schultzsays]

I have the same problem. ATT tech support could not help.

[schultzsays]

Turn off bluetooth and it works.

[Eric Immerman]

Turning Bluetooth off did not work for me.

[Eric Immerman]

I have the same problem. ATT tech support could not help.

What did AT&T ultimately tell you to do? Swap it for a new one?

[Lee B]

So long as I use familiar English words, the voice recognition is good on my 822, sometimes better than the Bing search. When I asked for “Starbucks near here,” it understood perfectly, but Bing delivered restaurants in the next town over rather than ones that are closer. When I specified the town, Bing came through. Not surprisingly, when I tried for the Dali Restaurant, it first heard Dolly, but on a second try, it got it right. I'm impressed how well it does.

[davidkajones]

Some times it works, some times it may not work. Its due to the variation in the accent. First we need to train our voice to sync with voice recognition software. For our audio transcription work we have used many voice recognition softwares, but nothing worth as manual work.

[Necroscope]

What did AT&T ultimately tell you to do? Swap it for a new one?

I have the same issue sometimes. If I watch the little audio meter, it is just flatlined. Calls work fine. Speaker phone calls work fine. Just voice recognition stuff will not register. I think it has to do with the headphone jack. The first time it happened, I decided to test it with a set of headphones that have an in-line mic. It worked fine with the headphones. As I was unplugging the head phones, I heard a significant amount of static. I used the headphone plug sort of like a pipe cleaner, in and out - in and out, a few times and voice recognition was back to normal.

The last time it did it, I was in the car. I was a little frutrated and tapped the top of the phone against the steering wheel, not hard mind you, just a little tap tap. Bingo, the audio meter lines jumped and the phone could hear me.

Hasn't happened since but I don't use the voice feature very much.

As I think this is a hardware issue -> I am using an Lumia 920.

[hopmedic]

I don't know what your exact circumstance is, but maybe this will help. I listen to podcasts in the car, using aux input because my car stereo's BT does not have streaming capability, only hands free. What I've learned is that if the aux cable is plugged into the phone, that's where it looks for input, even though the aux input has no mic input. So if I'm plugged in, and a text comes, it interrupts the sound (bluetooth to car) and announces the text, but it doesn't hear me say to read it. Unplugging the cable seems to just have the effect of canceling the text, and the podcast continues through the phone speaker.

Not sure if this fits your situation, but this is mine.

[muhan]

Only works for me if I turn off bluetooth. With bluetooth turned on, the phone can't hear anything I say.