Wish List for Voice Commands

That would be a good one, to be able to call the n'th caller in your list.

My wish list is simpler:

"Take me to work, wake me when we arrive".

Daniel

 

"KITT, I need you!"

 

"Warp 9, Mr. Sulu" and "Beam me up, Scotty."
Pretty much everything else would be unnecessary.

 

I disagree. How about "Shields up!" and "Arm photon torpedoes". I'd find those particularly useful.

 

That's funny because I named my car KATT...since it's a female voice with the navigation. LOL.

 

Not a command, but I wish the voice would intone, whenever it dips below 40, "Cold weather will really make your gas mileage go down." Also, if you've driven for less than 15 minutes, when you turn off the car, the voice should say, "Short trips will really make your gas mileage go down."

 

One of my quibbles is that many of the voice commands aren't available on certain screens.

Like, for instance, I'd like to be able to 'Call home' from the NAV screen.

And a wierdness that confused me to begin with was 'louder' which made Jill (the navigation female) talk louder, instead of making the music louder...

I get a bit peeved when I want to make a phonecall and have to switch screens to do it.

S.

Aside: 'Find nearest Chinese restaurant' has to be the best command available

 

"Switch plates" to do a James Bond style rotate of the number plates when passing a "safety" camera.

"Deploy oilslick" to deter the many over friendly drivers I encouter.

Although much like Gordon Brown suggesting a change in laws regarding political donations, it would be nice for more effort going into making the current system work properly than implementing new features.

"Raise temperature" - "Displaying civic centres"

 

I disagree... I think "I'm Hungry" is the best available command. Has anyone else found any other hidden commands like this one?

On a more serious note, the one command I wish they had is to input an *Intersection* destination similar to how the "Address" voice command works. I often want to get to a particular neighbourhood while driving, but don't know a numerical address off the top of my head. Since the street-locating logic is there for the Address command, why couldn't they just duplicate that?

 

I like "I'm Hungry" and find that it and "Home" are the commands I use most commonly when demonstrating my car's cool features to passengers.

"Raise Temperature" might not work, but I think you can say "warmer" maybe?... you can also just say the temp you want, or press the temp+/- button on the wheel. Similarly you don't need a "louder" command for music level since there's a volume+/- on the wheel as well... seems silly to go through a few steps to do something you can do in one step

It's also fun to just say random things to Jill and see how she interprets them. If you keep it short she'll almost always try to match it to some command.

Page through the help screens once in a while and memorize voice commands. They're very useful.

I'll definitely second the notion that it's aggravating to not be able to use all commands from any screen. It sort of defeats some of the voice command's usefulness.

Commands I wish I had:
Windows down/up (all windows go up or down all the way)

Maintain XXX RPM (ICE spins as close to RPM as possible, allowing speed to go up or down depending on terrain... even as a CC feature that'd be nice)

 

I had the misfortune of taking a test drive with a salesman who didn't know about any voice commands and kept insisting that there weren't any.

It would have been helpful in that situation to have an "eject passenger" command.

 

Knowing Jill, it'd go like this:
You: Eject Passenger!
Jill: Ejecting Driver, have a nice day!
SPROING!!

 

That's why you should NOT have an "eject driver" command!

 

I agree! That "Eject Driver" button on my old '91 Camry? No end of troubles with that, let me tell you.

 

Aft torpedoes fire!

 

While we're talking about Star Trek-related voice features, I want the word "Computer" to activate voice command mode so I don't have to push a button. That way I could say:

"Computer, I'm Hungry."

As it is I have to say "computer" then stealthily press the voice button, and then speak the command if I really want to fool passengers (or myself, lol) into thinking the system was modeled after Star Trek.

 

Right now I'd settle for it working without me having to repeat it four or five times. Maybe someone has some tips. I speak flat, unaccented middle-American. Maybe that's the problem.

 

"Activate Designate Driver" would be a nice one.