Voice Commands and other stuff

:roll: Strange responses to voice commands prompted my Prius' "name" - ERNESTINE - after Lili Tomlin's telephone operator character. I get about 65% correct, the rest strange, even innane, but choose to be amused rather than irritated... I value a good chuckle!

I have found that a normal voice level and rhythm works best for me.

 

I have had my PRI for just over 2 weeks and your topic sparked an interest. While traveling with GPS guidance running, I decided I was cold and asked the car to get warmer. Instead, she de-activated the voice guidance. This was after several attempts with no response. On the way home I tried again. This time very loud and very clear. She got the message that time and increased the cabin temp for me. I suggest not to try voice commands if you are using the GPS to find someplace new. You have to come to a stop to resume the GPS after the route guidance has been deactivated.

 

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You can use the voice commands of "start guidance" or "resume guidance" to get it talking again whilst driving. The opposite commands are "stop guidance" and "suspend guidance". These may help unless the NAV went into some other mode that doesn't respond to them. Also, I think mine doesn't take some of those commands unless I'm at the Map screen on the display.

Another idea is to use the alternate wording that's available for some of the commands. That is "Raise Temperature" instead of "Warmer". I can get the "warmer" to work about 4% of the time. It drove me crazy until I decided to stick with "Raise Temperature" or "70 Degrees" or "Temperature 70 Degrees".

I agree about the agro caused when trying to show off the new technology and having the NAV lady never get what you're saying. But some commands seem to work really well for me: "Audio", "Automatic Air Conditioning". I was quite pleased to discover that "Suspend Guidance" was much more effective than "Shut Up!"

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Considering what they showes on Extreme Home Makover: How they do that? Last night, voice recognition should be much better, especially with the limited vocabulary.

 

When we first got the hybrid we took it to
Monticello and on the way I must have ticked off
my hubby and he says to the voice activator
"passenger eject, thermal nuclear mode"
And she said..

"temperature 85" and raised the temp to 85 degrees!
Then decided to be creative and turned it on and said
"moo"
and she replied
"map mode on"
So if you "moo" like a cow she will turn on the map!!
My friends love it!!!

 

Let's be honest.....

Unless you REALLY spend some time learning how the computer wants you to enunciate - the voice recognition system isn't really that practical.

That said - it IS a whole lot of fun.

My advice - DON'T try to S-P-E-A-K C-L-E-A-R-L-Y. It's been my experience that if you talk normally, you get better results.

Also - the temperature commands - the listed command is something like "Air Conditioning 72 degrees". I've found that a simple "72 degrees" removing the "Air Conditioning" works almost 100% of the time.

Hope that helps.

Yoda

 

I said 70 degrees.

She said Turning on Sports Complex icons.

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