searching: maybe I am not doing this correctly

[boatman]

2 questions on searching.

1st . When I want to look up a contact to call while driving, I was hoping to do this via voice search. So if I want to call my wife (i have a contact in as wife), I long hold the search button (thanks to that video of tips!), and say wife. This brings up a browser with google search for wife (some very interesting sites with wife out there...).

I was hoping it would bring up my contacts list like it would if I typed in -w-i-f-e , which shows me contacts, and other things.

2nd question. Say I want to find the phone number of my friend 'john doh'. If I type 'john doh anytown' into the search, ti brings up google search, and shows me all sorts of things, like a linkedin page, 123people, etc.etc.

What is the best way to have it search for a phone number. Is there a dedicated app that uses white pages etc. How is everyone else finding phone numbers.

thanks.

 

[fireshaper]

Instead of just saying "Wife", you need to give the phone an action so try saying "call Wife". It might bring up a screen to choose a number if the contact has more than one number in your phone or if the name you say can me confused with someone else's in your contacts.

 

[Barkleyfan]

For voice dialing, there is an actual voicedial app that is separate from voice search. It's in the tray. I don't use voice much. My solution for dialing frequent numbers is using the GDE homescreen app and on my primary homescreen, I use an application dock. I store the contacts I use most there, where I can just flick to their pic and dial direct.

There's also a somewhat handy little app called gesture search. Only had it a day or so, so I'm not sure if it's intuitive enough for my needs or not, but it's free, so play with it.

Can't help on refining searches. I know there's a Yellowbook voice app that's ok, but not real special. At least it doesn't pull up businesses that have been out of business for 10 years like Google does.

 

[boatman]

thanks for the tip on voice dial vs. voice search.

but how to look up phone numbers of people not in your address book.

say i want the phone number of john doh, anycity, anystate. what is best way to lookup either typing or voice? Is there a good app for this on the droid?