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[TheBoy]

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I rarely use the contacts list in the phone, I still dial them manually for most of my friends and family ………..

My particular annoyance is Voice dialling. It’s probably me at fault but it never calls who I want it to call.   
In the car, I press the steering wheel button and it beeps, I say the command for telephone and it prompts me to speak the persons name. For example, I say ‘Call Dad Mobile’ and the display says ’Calling Beefeater Torquay’.     As it happens, I do have Beefeater Torquay in my phone as we’ve used it several times, but how does it confuse ‘Call Dad’ with ‘Beefeater’. 
I had to stop using voice dial as the Beefeater in Torquay were getting pissed off with me calling them and hanging up. 

I used to get that with early versions of Siri - it always called one particular person, no matter what I said.

The voice system in the car works flawlessly for me, be it making calls, entering destinations, or using the stereo.  Mrs TheBoy however, it really doesn't like her carrot cruncher accent...   ...seeing as she lived around 7 or 8 miles from you, that must explain it.  Alexa completely ignores her as well, sensibly

[YZ250]

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I rarely use the contacts list in the phone, I still dial them manually for most of my friends and family ………..

My particular annoyance is Voice dialling. It’s probably me at fault but it never calls who I want it to call.   
In the car, I press the steering wheel button and it beeps, I say the command for telephone and it prompts me to speak the persons name. For example, I say ‘Call Dad Mobile’ and the display says ’Calling Beefeater Torquay’.     As it happens, I do have Beefeater Torquay in my phone as we’ve used it several times, but how does it confuse ‘Call Dad’ with ‘Beefeater’. 
I had to stop using voice dial as the Beefeater in Torquay were getting pissed off with me calling them and hanging up. 

I used to get that with early versions of Siri - it always called one particular person, no matter what I said.

The voice system in the car works flawlessly for me, be it making calls, entering destinations, or using the stereo.  Mrs TheBoy however, it really doesn't like her carrot cruncher accent...   ...seeing as she lived around 7 or 8 miles from you, that must explain it.  Alexa completely ignores her as well, sensibly

 

At school they said that we sounded like faaarmers, so maybe your theory is correct, as Alexa ignores me as well.    The Audi has a 40 word speech recognition system for voice coaching, but it still gets it wrong.    My wife’s a townie so I’ll get her to try it next time. 

[Kevin Wood]

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I rarely use the contacts list in the phone, I still dial them manually for most of my friends and family ………..

My particular annoyance is Voice dialling. It’s probably me at fault but it never calls who I want it to call.   
In the car, I press the steering wheel button and it beeps, I say the command for telephone and it prompts me to speak the persons name. For example, I say ‘Call Dad Mobile’ and the display says ’Calling Beefeater Torquay’.     As it happens, I do have Beefeater Torquay in my phone as we’ve used it several times, but how does it confuse ‘Call Dad’ with ‘Beefeater’. 
I had to stop using voice dial as the Beefeater in Torquay were getting pissed off with me calling them and hanging up. 

I used to get that with early versions of Siri - it always called one particular person, no matter what I said.

The voice system in the car works flawlessly for me, be it making calls, entering destinations, or using the stereo.  Mrs TheBoy however, it really doesn't like her carrot cruncher accent...   ...seeing as she lived around 7 or 8 miles from you, that must explain it.  Alexa completely ignores her as well, sensibly

 

At school they said that we sounded like faaarmers, so maybe your theory is correct, as Alexa ignores me as well.    The Audi has a 40 word speech recognition system for voice coaching, but it still gets it wrong.    My wife’s a townie so I’ll get her to try it next time. 

If God had intended us to p*ss around trying to talk to software, he wouldn't have given us keyboards and mice.

[TheBoy]

At school they said that we sounded like faaarmers, so maybe your theory is correct, as Alexa ignores me as well.    The Audi has a 40 word speech recognition system for voice coaching, but it still gets it wrong.    My wife’s a townie so I’ll get her to try it next time. 

I don't think mine has learning. Or if it does, I've never bothered, and I've swapped out the main audio unit a number of times for a variety of reasons.

Clearly, I just talks proper, like the Queen.

[TheBoy]

If God had intended us to p*ss around trying to talk to software, he wouldn't have given us keyboards and mice.

Don't try to tell me you don't use the voice commands on your car

The XE, well certainly the LoLine fitted to her poverty spec one, doesn't appear to have a voice command to cancel the satnag.  That is REALLY annoying, as means pissing around on the touchscreen trying to find the option.

[Kevin Wood]

Don't try to tell me you don't use the voice commands on your car

The XE, well certainly the LoLine fitted to her poverty spec one, doesn't appear to have a voice command to cancel the satnag.  That is REALLY annoying, as means pissing around on the touchscreen trying to find the option.

Nope. I spotted the button once and pressed it out of curiosity. Asked it to call my Mum. After about a dozen tries and accidental phone calls I gave up and used the menus (which are also pants).

[Kevin Wood]

Don't try to tell me you don't use the voice commands on your car

The XE, well certainly the LoLine fitted to her poverty spec one, doesn't appear to have a voice command to cancel the satnag.  That is REALLY annoying, as means pissing around on the touchscreen trying to find the option.

Nope. I spotted the button once and pressed it out of curiosity. Asked it to call my Mum. After about a dozen tries and accidental phone calls I gave up and used the menus (which are also pants).

..although the function to get it to read out SMS messages is OK. (Because reading SMS messages while driving is apparently bad, whilst reading an essay that comes up on the screen about how it's bad to read SMS messages while driving must apparently be OK).

[YZ250]

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I don't think mine has learning. Or if it does, I've never bothered, and I've swapped out the main audio unit a number of times for a variety of reasons.

Clearly, I just talks proper, like the Queen.

I’ve just been through the 40 voice learning dialogue again. When completed, I pressed the button and said ‘Navigation’ and that worked fine.     I then said  ‘Destination Input’ and that worked fine.    I then said ‘Hicks Road, Markyate’ and the car said ‘Phoning Brian’. 
I did eventually get it to work after several attempts but it’s so unpredictable that I’ll stick with the menu wheel thingy. I can say ‘Navigate To’ and say the named place but that’s even less predictable.    Nav Postcodes are easy as I have a writing touchpad on the console for that, and that works great, even though I’m doing it left handed.   
It’s got to be me doing it wrong though, as it works flawlessly on every video I’ve watched of it on YouTube.     I’ll get one of the younger grandchildren to show me how it works.