voice problems

[Timothy Nathan]

I thought I had bought a quality car. I thought chavs bought Fiestas and old BMWs, and that sophisticated, urbane people like you and I bought high end Audis.

I am clearly wrong.

When the voice reads back the letter H when you are spelling something she says "haitch". :aargh4:

Only 43 miles on it and we are going to have to sell it and get a Merc. :zx11:

[Guest 2]

Have you trained your voice yet?

Haitch would be the irish accent for H. What language is she speaking in? English UK I take it?

I don't use the voice commands in my C6. Total waste of time and its usually 99.99% quicker doing the command yourself.

[ianfarnham]

you're right ! My last Audi read the H correctly but she couldnt say thirty (it sounded like third-ee)

A bit sad but my family normally give the voice a name - the last one was called "darling" and I'm waiting for the new one. Darling is clearly too refined.

[Timothy Nathan]

If haitch is of Irish origin, then it has reached UK English via the Irish Tinker travelling community, and from there into Estuary English. That is no recommendation!

Yes, I have trained it, but I am talking about its output, not its input.

[nealeb]

I'm with you on that. It can't even handle joined-up writing. I've taken to shouting at mine instead of writing it elegant little notes...

[BigAid]

Ah I could never be <removed> with the voice commands - loving the hand writing recognition given it understands my illegible scrawl


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[Timothy Nathan]

The worst thing about voice recognition is having to get everyone else in the car to shut up, so it interprets the right voice. What normally happens is that someone from the passenger or rear seat says "Oh that's clever" and you end up being navigated to Micheldever.

On the other hand, if you ask them to be quiet while you chat with the car, and the car then gets it wrong, you have to put up with stories of why Austin Maxis managed fine without voice recognition.

It's a tough life.

[nealeb]

The touchpad is pretty good but I find it a bit slow to use, especially as you are writing left-handed. You also need to experiment to find the character shapes that it recognises most easily. The voice system is probably a bit slower but at least you can continue to use it when the traffic starts moving - and I tend not to have too many passengers interrupting!

[Timothy Nathan]

My wife used it from the left seat today using her right hand and found it much easier.

[BigAid]

Ah I should say I'm a south paw so it works extremely well for me from the drivers seat.

[Timothy Nathan]

Has anyone persuaded it to do lower case?

[nealeb]

Good point - whether or not you use it to enter destination/waypoint/whatever, I always end up using the turn-knob-and-click method to put names on destinations so that I can use lower case. But then, I'm the sort of person who always spells and punctuates correctly on text messages...

[BigAid]

I've got it to do lower case by using the dial to select lower case then using the touchpad to enter by drawing capitals.


IGNORE THIS

Sorry Chaps,

epic fail - I've just tried to do this again and it appears I must have tried this and then when it didn't work dialled the lowercase characters in......

Apologies

[nealeb]

Never thought of that one!

[Timothy Nathan]

nealab,

Do you think we are twins, separated at birth?

[nealeb]

Do you think we are twins, separated at birth?
I am a twin, but I know where my other twin is and you ain't her:) I am also a member of a motorcycle forum where the majority discuss loud exhausts and go-faster extras while a small minority of us discuss slippers-warmers and which side to bolt the teak pipe-rack...

I don't have a smartphone of any variety yet either. But I am suffering from chronic indecision over the iPhone/Android debate given that I have very slight leanings one way due to features and the other way because of car compatibility. Now, which one of those is better at recognising joined-up writing?

[djmx5]

"My wife used it from the left seat today using her right hand and found it much easier"

Marvelous!

[Timothy Nathan]

I've got it to do lower case by using the dial to select lower case then using the touchpad to enter by drawing capitals.
I tried that and it didn't work, what's the trick?

[BigAid]

Sorry Chaps,

epic fail - I've just tried to do this again and it appears I must have tried this and then when it didn't work dialled the lowercase characters in......

Apologies

Aid