voice problems

**Timothy Nathan** · 02-03-2012,07:06 PM

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".

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

**Guest 2** · 02-03-2012,09:05 PM

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** · 02-03-2012,09:06 PM

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** · 02-03-2012,09:29 PM

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** · 03-03-2012,08:50 AM

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** · 03-03-2012,07:10 PM

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** · 04-03-2012,12:59 AM

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** · 04-03-2012,09:23 PM

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!