Bluetooth question

We just bought a new car, and it has Bluetooth hands-free cell phone operation. I’ve been reading through the manual to figure out how to program the system, but I have a question for you dopers who’ve used Bluetooth before.

The system is voice activated, so when you enter a number in the phone book you need to speak the name of the person belonging to the number. My wife will be using the car most of the time, but she absolutely detests doing things like programming phone books.

If I program the entries using my voice, and then she gets in the car and tells it to dial “Fred Smith” will the voice recognition
[list=a]
[li]work flawlessly?[/li][li]work sometimes but not others?[/li][li]fail miserably?[/li][/list]

If the answer is (b), and assuming that both she and I enunciate plainly, what kind of success rate should we expect?

BTW, apparently the phone can be dialed by scrolling thru the audio for each number and stopping on the one you want, but that’s a major pain.

I think your question is entirely about the voice recognition software in your phone, and has nothing to do with Bluetooth.

Fair enough. Actually, the voice recognition is done by the car, not the phone. FWIW it’s a 2008 Camry, and I think the audio system is made by JBL, but I’m not sure.

I have not had experience with this specific implementation (I have a 2007 Camry and it has Bluetooth but not its own voice-activated phone book). But my experience with voice-activated stuff where you do not have to do training in advance is that they will do a very reasonable job of recognizing anyone’s voice barring unusual accents. If you program the system, it will probably still recognize your wife’s voice commands most of the time.

But your question is about a specific system that not many of us have so you’ll get a much faster answer by just doing it and seeing what happens.