21. I just got Brain Age yesterday, and I too had lots of trouble with the word "Blue". I gave it to my wife, and she did not have any problems.

Nintendo needs to fix this!

Posted at 7:10AM on Apr 20th 2006 by NR

22. I had this same problem at first. Simply turn the volume down on the DS unit itself to very low or off, and it seems it has a much easier time recognizing the word blue.

Posted at 8:40AM on Apr 20th 2006 by ntrpy

23. I've not had any problems at all getting mine to recognize any words on my DS Fat (I refuse to call it Phat - it's Fat, let's be honest). I didn't have to do any volume adjustments. 9 times out of 10 I'd wager this is due to little differences in accents that people don't even realize they have.

Posted at 9:05AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Phil

24. My friend and I both had trouble getting it to recognize "blue". We are in Canada, so we thought maybe we say blue with a Canadian accent. US people, do we say "blue" funny? I still don't hear that about/aboot thing.

Posted at 9:18AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Melanie

25. I haven't tried the speaking aloud sections yet - but I have a terrible time getting it to recognise my numbers. It just does not like the way I write the number 9 - and will never accept it. It will only take it if you write a number in a single stroke, which I do not. It really sucks for the math sections where you are timed.

Posted at 9:22AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Lee

26. On my normal DS it understands the word Blue every time I say it, but my fiancee has to put an emphasis on the first part of the word and raise her pitch on the ooo for it to understand her. We are both in the Midwest so we can't blame an accent on the issue, but I will have to make her try saying it softly instead of yelling at the DS when she plays.
It would have been nice if when you created a new profile the game had you say a few words so it could train itself to your voice.

Posted at 9:25AM on Apr 20th 2006 by PhoenixGeek

27. I'm having no problems with blue, although people that have tried the game have had problems.

My problem with the game is that it randomly crashes sometimes when I'm in the middle of something.

Posted at 9:32AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Jarrod Turner

28. My friend's fiance is from Beliz. The game never recognizes blue when she says it. I think it's an accent thing.

Posted at 9:44AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Sense

29. i haven't had any trouble with voice recognition at all... not even once. just a little handwriting recognition between 2's and 7's, but that's my bad script and not the ds.

Posted at 10:08AM on Apr 20th 2006 by jojonyc

30. I have an original DS, and the game's accuracy on the word 'blue' is only about 50%. This is the case with me, my wife, and my buddy and his wife. That's four people that all have the same issue with the word blue.

It sucks!

Posted at 10:30AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Ian Zabel

31. Anyone else notice it's impossible to write "k" in the game?

I just ordered my Lite (Lik-Sang just got their stock back up... cocaine white, baby.) I'm not to worried about this. Mostly because I alreayd had to say "Red-duhhhh" to get it to figure out I was saying red.

And the game thinks my 8's are 2's.

Posted at 10:46AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Squints

32. Same as above... "I thought it was just me, but now..."

Turning the volume off or lowering it didn't help me say "blue." Making sure I was in a quiet room did.

Regardless, the voice recognition bug sure didn't help me sell my wife on picking this one up.

Posted at 10:50AM on Apr 20th 2006 by BobbyHollywood

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try speaking clearly, I say "BHLU" very clear and it works fine 100%, my girlfriend says "blOO" (light "bl" sound) and it has trouble.

It's all in how you say it, and has nothing to do with the software or hardware.

Posted at 11:06AM on Apr 20th 2006 by .ed

34. I call BS.

I'm playing the Canadian/French version of Brain Age on a Japanese DS Lite and I'm Swedish with a slight Finnish accent and it picks upp my words perfectly.

Posted at 11:07AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Shenzou

35. Hey guys, my DS fat got the word Blue 90% of the time for me and my g/f. The Lite got it 10% of the time. If I get some time ill make a comparison movie.

Posted at 11:23AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Sean

36. "Blue" Doesn't even work on ds phat. I don't get it but it frustrating. I think Brain age is a great game but with the "Blue" problem I will never get a valid Brain Age. I think nintendo needs to fix the problem and recall the game.

Has anyone who has the game figured out a way around the "blue" word.

Posted at 11:41AM on Apr 20th 2006 by Jay

37. It would be quite a sight to walk into best buy and see a group of people huddled over their DS's yelling, "BLUE! BLUE! BLUE!".

Posted at 12:03PM on Apr 20th 2006 by symmet

38. 10> that's the first thing i tried! and it worked... no better than just blue, but it does work. ;)

i let a laid back friend of mine give the demo a go, and when he repeated all the colors in a relaxed fashion there was no problem with the recognition. seems if you shout the words real fast the issue arises.

so everybody: chill the bleep out! :p

Posted at 12:41PM on Apr 20th 2006 by t4m

39. Yes, just hold the game 6 inch to a foot from your face and talk in a normal volume, don't speak up AT ALL. Fixes the problem.

Posted at 1:06PM on Apr 20th 2006 by crono141

40. "Blue" works fine for me on my DS (phat), but it almost never works for my roommate. To me it sounds like he is saying it exactly the same as me (no different accent involved), but I guess the voice recognition software a lot more sensitive than I am.

Posted at 1:42PM on Apr 20th 2006 by clay