Voice Control - Intelligence?

[Maniac]

After a number of attempts to verbally enter a destination, I finally told her to 'oh just f*ck off' to which she (Z) told me, 'request cancelled'...

There's no winning! :rofl:

 

[Z4 Beemer]

Haha

Have to say voice recognition is very good on the Audi. She will dial the number of whoever I tell her to, and change radio stations also with superb accuracy. On the odd occasion she doesn't understand, she says "Pardon" in a very cross sounding way.

 

[Maniac]

Oh I just get 'please repeat' in a voice that says 'You're accent is crap and I can't understand you'... lol. I did laugh at the point I told her to F off and she said NO!

 

[jaRED]

My accent's clearly no good either. Find myself trying asking for the 'marp' cos she doesn't know what a map is

 

[Andrew*Debbie]

We don't bother with the built in. Debbie tried a few times to get the car to do phone number look up. Very risky when half of the numbers in her phone are in the Pacific time zone.


We had a similar experience with the semi-integrated Nuvi. Sometimes it worked if I sounded like a posh idiot. "Voice cohmaahhnd. Display Mahhhp."

With some tinkering, I was able to switch it to American English. That works, except that Garmin, being an American company knows that Americans never leave the US.

 

[bigdavey]

It is an accent thing. She doesn't like my cornish accent, but my mrs, who is well posh , has no problem getting understood. Education.....you get what you pay for my loverlies.

 

[Maniac]

Actually, I'm voice trained as I used to do video work in my younger days, voice overs that sort of thing. Sure, I still have a little yorkshire that comes out now and then, but other than that my accent is fairly neutral, the car doesn't like that. However I have noticed, that if you adopt a southerners accent, with as you say a little education (read posh sounding) the car responds 'awfully' well.