yes but havnt tried alarm yet

The word stop rarely if ever seems to work in the music player weirdly, and to pause I have to say 'pose and I've got a reasonably comprehensible English accent.

voice control is one of many entirely untouched features on my fones and likely to remain so. the idea of speaking out loud seems like just sooo much effort...

@3mel do you not use the 'Ok Google' command in Google Search? I find that invaluable, and it seems to recognise virtually everything, even Andreas Vollenweider (which my predictive text won't unless I specifically teach it) and takes a while to type manually.

no, think I tried it once and it failed utterly.. I have most google processes firewalled anyway for security reasons...

imo these 'voice apps' were tailored to recognize only distinctively brit accents...

Na I feel weird talking out loud by my self, thought control would be better

@ 'thought control' but yeah, I'd definitely be up for that :) I wouldn't have thought that'd it'd be biased towards British accents with Google being an American company, but I guess it's possible. I rarely, if ever, type anything into the Google app anymore - since it recognises everything I say (and you don't even have to tap the mic button with the 'ok Google' command). It's much quicker to ask 'what's the weather like in Great Wyrley?' than type it, and since it answers vocally too it's not as weird as talking to yourself.

Is there any regional settings that can be adjusted ?

On my device (Note II) there's a section in 'settings' under 'language and input' for 'voice search' which has various region-specific options, but I don't know if that's present on all android phones.