you have to hold the button on your headset down for the same amount of time you would hold the home button. that simple. it took me an 8th of a second to figure it out

I've never seen anything to indicate a recording ability being added to Voice Control, and there's already a separate Voice Memos app. Is that what you were meaning?

Voice Control does not work through bluetooth yet; only by holding down the home button. As previously discussed in this thread, Voice Control is very limited in its first debut. However, the soon to be released 3.1 will add this functionality (and hopefully, better accuracy).

I can't get mine to function by pushing headset button. If anyone knows how to make it work this way, let me know. Very disappointing so far. My five year old Nokia could do it, why not the iPhone?

I feel like there's just about enough time to hit Cancel, though what would be far better IMO is if you could simply say 'Cancel' when it is offering to dial a wrong contact, or when you just change your mind on a call.

Problem is, I don't think Apple will allow 3rd party devs to create apps in this category.

Microsoft Voice Commander and Cyberon Voice Dial / Command lets you do these on Windows CE phones. The Cyberon even lets you add voice tag (Record a tag for each contact) – if you have two contacts – Joe Smith – you add a voice tag of "Joey" to the first one and "JS" to the second one and press the blue tooth headset button and say "Call Joey" or "Call JS" to call the appropriate person.

I wish some one would come up with an app that will bring that functionality to Iphone 3G S, if not Apple firmware. There's money to be made…..

It won't show up in a Spotlight search. You invoke it by holding down the Home button for around 3 seconds, even if the iPhone is in sleep mode.
Also, you know that it only runs on the iPhone 3GS, right?

I don't know of a way to do that – but I've never turned it on without wanting to. Are you finding that you turn it on accidentally?

Simone – "do other cell phone voice recognition programs do what you asking on your "wish list"'
Yes.
As stated in the post, Voice Command has been doing much more than Voice Control, for many years, and on what I consider a vastly inferior mobile OS. It lets you open apps, check calendar appointments, interact with contacts etc.
I'm hardly one who fails to recognize and admire the revolutionary, and just plain effective, elements of the iPhone – but I'll also happily point out places where it does not yet measure up.

I agree completely on the stage it's at – and hope the improvements will come along relatively fast.

I agree completely on the stage its at – and hope the improvements will come along relatively fast.

I don't think it's supported in this context yet. Truthfully, Voice Control, at this stage, is just a mediocre first attempt (slightly better than a proof of concept) with very limited capability. I don't imagine Voice Control, in its current incarnation, is anywhere near where Apple would like it to be. I think they needed to release it with a reduced feature set for testing and to get the 3GS out the door, knowing they could always improve the software later.

K

I'm not positive on this one – others may have better answers. My understanding is that it requires a BT headset that is capable of voice control. I've tried testing with a Plantronics 520 and cannot make it work – but I rarely use a BT headset, so could easily be wrong.

K

Oh – great point – that would be very cool if Voice Control could activate after a quick home button hold plus move to your ear. Not on every move to the ear because that would get confusing / annoying when taking / making a call. I see same issue with Google Mobile and Contacts search by the way – odd – it recognizes a name perfectly and is set for 'iPhone and web' in terms of where to search, but only shows me web links, nothing from Address Book.