Voice Command won't respond through earbuds

I just upgraded to OS 4.3 on my iPhone 3Gs last week and while as far as I know everything seems to be working fine, I can't get the audio response portion of Voice Command to work with my headphones plugged in. In other words, I don't hear the "woman's" voice when "she" should be responding to my request. For example, if I say "Play Artist Rolling Stones" the iPod feature will work fine (I can hear the music) but there's no confirming "Playing Artist Rolling Stones" response through the headset before the music starts. If I say "Call George", it'll dial the number but there will be no "Calling George" announcement. If I ask "What time is it", I can see the audiograph on the display move but it's dead silence in the headphones. The earphones (and I've tried a couple of different ones with the same results) work just fine for listening to music, etc., and the microphone on the wire is definitely working (Voice Command works perfectly through the mic on the earphones to control music or dial phone calls). It's not a permanent thing because if I pull the plug out, Voice Command functions normally through the speaker (including the confirmatory response).
Is this a known bug with iOS 4.3? Should I restore the earlier version of iOS? Is there some setting I don't know about?
Thanks,
Nick

It's hard to believe that nobody figured this out! I finally found the answer by doing a search of the 'Net, which of course led me back to this discussion group. Apparently the installation of the latest version of iOS caused my iPhone to reset some of the volume controls. A contributor ("dkorakek") to this forum answered this very same question back in 2009 (see below excerpt). For those who find themselves in the same boat, the answer is to simply launch a voice command through the mic on the earphones and even if you don't hear the response, immediately start hitting the "up" button for volume control. If your experience parallels mine, you'll see that the volume for the headphones when in Voice Command mode only is basically at zero when you start but will go up to whatever you want. The volume adjustment can't be done without the earphone plugged in and a Voice Command being performed since changes to the level will only apply to the mode the phone is currently in (e.g., music through speaker, music through earphones, Voice Command through speaker, Voice Command through earphones, etc.). I never realized that the iPhone allowed the volume to be set individually for so many different functions. Who knew?????
Hope this helps someone!
Nick
P.S.: Thanks again to "dkoralek"!
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From: dkoralek
Posts: 5
From: NC
Registered: Sep 29, 2007
Re: Voice Command doesn't repeat the info back!
Posted: Sep 6, 2009 8:31 AM in response to: Lixard52
I had this problem and realized what caused it. Like everything on the iPhone, volume can be set for almost every function separately (both with headphones, with the external speaker separately). When I had this problem, if I was using the external speaker, she would repeat my commands, the beep would sound, etc.), but nothing with the headphones (and in the back of my mind I noticed that it would vibrate when I enabled voice commands). What you might try is activating voice commands (holding the button) and then when the blue screen comes up, adjust the volume up. THis did the trick for me.
Cheers.
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