There is a delay in Nuance launch not sure why, also found it much better when set to Expert mode as well, anything else was very frustrating.

I have a dialer shortcut on my home page and when I open it, it's at the dialpad?

 

Ditto here!

And mine takes about the same amount of time as well. Pretty strange since it is always running in the background. It is always running on Taskiller and when I kill it, it pops right back up.

I will also comment that the voice command on the Instinct was FAR superior to this thing.

 

On Moment, looking under About in Nuance Voice Control the device is listed as Instinct-Q. Clearly NVC was minimally modified for Moment/Android. Its start up time depends on how recently it was used. Even though Nuance task is always loaded in memory (always in TasKiller) the first time it is used there is a noticeable delay and starts with "please wait..", and if tried soon after it is reasonable when selected from homepage and a bit longer with physical button, irrespective of Audio modes settings. Testing to see if start up time will improve if NVC is included in TasKiller Ignore list. Have not used NVC on another device but had another device whose voice control was superior. Hoping it will be improved by the time of upgrade to Android 2.0.

 

By superior, what are you guys comparing to? Having to inflect oddly to get correct dialing or something like that? As I said earlier, I had this issue because default mode is very annoying and worked horribly, but expert mode works 99% of the time for me, and no odd annunciations by me are needed. Actually works better than the LG Voyager I had previously

 

You are still in default mode, training didn't do much for me either. EXPERT mode will correct all the issues you have, minus the slow start up (which I assume is bad memory management).

Open Voice control, go to Menu, Settings. Click on Audio Mode and select Expert. that's it, bet ya it works as good as Instinct now, or at least hope it does ...

 

14 to 15 seconds is way too long. Start up takes about 3-4 seconds (was almost instantaneous on prev device) on my Moment. I keep the memory fairly lean removing unneeded apps such as Sprint apps, Gmail, Messaging etc. using Taskiller and use minimal widgets. Only necessary apps like com.*, K-9 and Handcent SMS are left in memory. It raised a flag when you mentioned Force close trying to use/modify Nuance VC. That never happened to me. See how it works out after you lean out the memory.

 

The delay is there in a native Moment as well. It just seems like there is bad preload or memory issues with the way it is handled in the phone. More than likely will need a base OS update or app update to correct the lag in opening. As far as the function when in Expert mode, it's darn near perfect now.

 

i never used it other then playing around with it when i first got my device but i just tested it to see and it only took about 3 seconds thats strange 15 seconds for some people

 

The Nuance app might as well be listed as a virus.
It blocks all use of any voice to text apps on the market.
Sprint shafted us with what ever they got paid by Nuance to ruin the phone.

I will stop buying Dragon Naturally speaking updates over this infliction.

 

When I first read this thread my Nuance voice control worked great. Later I decided to retrain it. It immediately slowed down, way, way down!! In my case, it apparently did not like being retrained! Anyway...Nuance sucks big time!! I hate it.