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Originally Posted by haus

You have to be sure "start menu items" is enabled in voice command options. Go to start-settings-personal (I think?) - voice command, (I'm going on memory here) items, start menu, hit options, and be sure the item is checked to allow voice command to run items from the start menu. Then initiate a voice command beep (NOT TELLME) and say "start <program>". Works for me for the most part, though it does get confused at times when programs have a similar name. The program you are trying to run has to be in the start menu list in order to work. In other words, you have to be able to press the start menu button and tap an icon to start the program before voice command will be able to launch it.

'Hope you have 'time to verify/delineate process, as VOICE COMMAND is not even mentioned in the USER GUIDE...?? (in spite of existing menu hierarchy: SETTINGS - PERSONAL - VOICE COMMAND, those options appear to be related to TELLME functionality...?)
Pressing MOTO Q9c VOICE RECOGNITION button prompts, "Say a command:" (...as opposed to TELLME button's 'tweet' alert when "Listening")...since you seem to be excluding pressing the TELLME hardware button, I have no-clue how to "initiate a voice command beep"...?


Mentioning MOTO Q9c again reminded me, Haus, of your prior response/comment about speed dialing applications (one of MY hot-buttons...):
"The ability to assign numbers to apps sounds like a Moto add-on for the Q9C, similar to the way Palm used to create add-on functionality to the WM treos..."
No, 'twas definitely NOT a MOTO Q9c 'add-on'--actually, I first stumbled upon explanation of the MENU button's "add Speed Dial" option (when menu application icon is highlighted) in a review of the SAMSUNG ACE (and 'have subsequently seen "speed dial apps" explained for other WM6.1 cell phones... which was enough for me to assume it was a standard WM6.1 Standard feature.

Since I learned about the FANTASTIC speed-dial-apps feature from a Samsung product writeup (and found it also worked on my Q9c!), imagine my surprise (and irritation) when it I found it missing from what I had ASSUMED was the 'more advanced' Samsung Intrepid... My first thought was the intentional elimination of a MUCH-TOO-USEFUL-feature in an underhanded attempt to "validate" all those various launchers out there on the 3rd-party market... I mean, if you can launch an app (by touch!) without even looking at the screen (or even the phone), what's the POYNT of all those pretty launchers??!? [no point whatsoever, to be blunt...I am, however, totally discounting "pretty"...when you eliminate the need to view the screen to launch apps, a "pretty launcher" immediately becomes "pretty insignificant"...]. Next, I thought (hoped...) Microsoft wanted to SELL some application to restore application Speed-Dial to WM6.5...unfortunately, I haven't located one...yet.

With the INTREPID, I am regularly IRRITATED with some newly discovered loss of capability (or perhaps "just" massive inconvenience); often it relates to the loss of application-Speed-Dial... The thought of returning to WM6.1 does recur... although I'm holding out until I fully explore that Voice-Command start of applications!

EXAMPLE illustrating ease and integrated use of app-Speed-Dial in WM6.1:
Using application-Speed-Dial...
it's easy to make good-use of a ScreenShot application to save a StreetView image/angle in GOOGLE MAPS:
press HOME key;
Speed-Dial-launch the ScreenShot application (ScreenShot app being assigned as #77 is easy to remember...as in PQRS !?) ;
select 10-second delay (until ScreenShot activates);
press HOME key again;
press START and select GOOGLE MAPS (2nd recently-used app), re-entering GOOGLE MAPS at the Street View;
shortly, the desired ScreenShot image is automatically saved...
The entire sequence takes mere seconds using application-Speed-Dial. (INTREPID sequence TBD...hopefully doable...?)