Comments on: FAQ: Remove The ANNOYING Voice Activated Dialing From Your BlackBerry

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:33:22 +0000

Good tip, VAD can become very annoying!!!

By: Amir Saad

Amir Saad — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:32:43 +0000

Looks nice, and from the screen image, I can imagine it deletes other stuff too like themes and PTT (God knows I never used that)

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:48:01 +0000

no. it affects voice activated dialing.

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:45:41 +0000

i cant believe how many commenters are so concerned with others who may not like or use VAD and would want to remove it.

it’s as if ronen accused your mothers of being whores or something.

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:42:46 +0000

or you can remove it, freeing up device memory if the user doesnt use the function, and focus on driving while they’re, ya know, driving.

By: Carnitos

Carnitos — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:40:14 +0000

I love VAD. It works better than any other phone’s VAD that I’ve used. Do the number training wizard in Blackberry Options and it makes it probably 95% accurate.

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:40:00 +0000

yes, the VAD app is capable of learning, and you can also train it individually under options > voice dialing > adapt voice

it’s actually quite good. it’s built by Nuance, the guys behind dragon naturally speaking. i just never use it as waiting on voice prompts is often slower for me than just using a shortcut. plus, most people i know dont have anglican surnames, which usually confuses the crap out of it.

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:30:35 +0000

just remap your left convenience key to a different app in options > screen/keyboard > left side convenience key opens:

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:26:48 +0000

some of us dont use VAD. with a way to remove it being available, it ends up saving device memory.

as for talking on a cellphone with or without a hands-free device while driving, that’s a whole different can of worms, imo.

By: oakie

oakie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:22:55 +0000

obviously something other than VAD.

besides, if you use VAD, why would you consider removing it?

By: scott

scott — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:48:18 +0000

you can always just change it so that your side keys do something else..
like someone mentioned it is quite important to have with handsfree laws..

By: Parabola

Parabola — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:30:24 +0000

I love the VAD, perfect when driving and my BB is linked to my Garmin GPS. I totally didn’t realize there was hate for it … and I’ve never turned it on by accident. I don’t know if I imagine it, but I find that the voice recognition learns after initial uses (like suretype?).

By: gRider

gRider — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:06:14 +0000

Is there any way to just turn it off?

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:48:59 +0000

The most annoying part is that it turns on every time you hold down the left convenience key on accident or accidentally hit the end button twice on your bluetooth headset after a phone call. Yesterday it got even worse and would not close so I had to reboot my 9700 before it would let me play any audio.

It also sucks at voice recognition which makes using it as a voice recognition app useless. Unless the persons name is David or Mark you are out of luck. That makes last names almost impossible. Vlingo is much better at this if you really need voice dialing.

By: CadillacCowboy

CadillacCowboy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:48:12 +0000

The problem with VAD is that often they don’t understand commands, plus one usually has to remember a long list of specific commands… I have found that it is usually easier and faster to just type a name in on the Home screen.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:36:33 +0000

What’s annoying about the VAD app? I love being able to dial a contact without looking at my phone… especially now that so many areas are making cell phone use while driving illegal without handsfree.

By: blackberry_junkie

blackberry_junkie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:36:30 +0000

Can’t believe people are hating on the VAD. If you’ve got a bluetooth and aren’t near your phone it makes dialing numbers and people (as long as they don’t have crazy names) a cinch.

By: kimaguresan

kimaguresan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:55:34 +0000

So…what do you use for handsfree dialing if you have a bluetooth earpiece?

By: jdy808

jdy808 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:54:06 +0000

This works great … thanks Ronen.

By: artie

artie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:49:36 +0000

Will it affect Sprint Navigation?

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:18:19 +0000

Works like a charm on my 9700. VAD is built into the os but this app removes it safely.

By: Heatley Fan

Heatley Fan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:13:36 +0000

I’ve had this installed on everyone of my BBs. It works great. Even tho I trim all the extras that I don’t need from the OS I still run it to make sure I haven’t forgoten

By: CadillacCowboy

CadillacCowboy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:09:52 +0000

Won’t this screw-up one’s device?

I though voice-activated dialing (VAD) was hard-wired into BlackBerry OS?

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:04:40 +0000

Does this work on the 9700? I tried removing things and it didn’t work.