Speech prompt shut off and radio stay on questions

I'm getting to know my 07 Prius and finding some things a bit confusing. I find it particularly confusing that the car comes with virtually no documentation on the speech recognition capabilities... just scattered references in various locations of the manuals... Anyway, I'm doing OK with it all but do have two fairly specific questions that I am hoping someone can answer:

1. When I press the voice recognition button, it prompts me by saying something like "after the beep enter a command". (can't remember what she actually says). Well I just want it to beep, I don't want to wait for the instruction about "wait for the beep". Is there a way to turn off the prompt? I have seen references in the forum to reseting the default to not prompt me, but I have no idea how to do that.

2. When I'm about to turn off the car (I have reached my destination) sometimes I'm listening to something I want to hear more of on the radio. Is there a way to power off the car without powering off the radio? _Sometimes_ it seems like if I press and HOLD the power button that it shuts down the car and leaves it in ACC mode (radio stays on), but other times it just shuts off everything. Any suggestions?

Thanks!!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(John Smith @ Dec 19 2006, 06:48 PM) [snapback]364405[/snapback]</div>

Thanks for the reply -- a couple of comments
1. The dead time will annoy me as much as the lady talking -- what I want is to immediatly hear the beep and speak the command. I suspect this can be done, particularly since the manual makes limited reference to pressing the button and hearing a beep. I'll try what you suggested and see if it works.

2. Your suggestion doesn't work with consistency. Assuming I have not pressed the "park" button and I just press and hold the power button, sometimes it leaves the car in ACC mode, sometimes it just shuts everything off. If I just press (and don't hold) the power button, it just shuts everything off.

Still hoping for more answers on these questions.....

thanks

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Dec 21 2006, 12:30 PM) [snapback]365306[/snapback]</div>

... so I don't get just a "beep" as an option when I press the voice button unless I am willing to give up all voice navigation, and I don't get to leave the car in ACC mode when stopping with any predictability... Is that the bottom line? Oh well. Seems like they thought of a lot of really clever things, left out a few obvious ones, and documented most of it fairly poorly. Still quite happy with the car.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Dec 21 2006, 04:02 PM) [snapback]365436[/snapback]</div>

So if I set "disable voice guidance" to off, it won't prompt me to enter a command but it still WILL tell me to "turn left in 3/4 mile" or whatever she says? That's counterintuitive to me -- "disable voice guidance" sounds like the voice guidance is going to be off, rather than the prompt for speech recognition... I'll try it tonight and see what happens.

The ACC mode -- Yeah, I know about what it is supposed to do to turn things on with respect to the brake pedal, etc and that all works. On the turning the car off and leaving the ACC on, I still get mixed results with sometimes the car staying in ACC mode when the power button is held and pressed, and sometimes it just shutting everything off. I'll try more, but I think there might be a glitch in the system. I say this because I managed to get it to do something that would be considered a safety hazard (one time only, haven't tried to duplicate it yet...). My spouse was driving and pulled into the driveway but I was listening to the story on the radio. He powered the car off and started to get out, but before he got out (his foot was off the brake) I pushed the power button to turn on ACC mode so I could hear the end of the story on the radio. So the car is in ACC mode, he gets out of the car WITH THE SMARTKEY and I sit there. After the story is done, I hit the power button again assuming it will turn everything off BUT IT DIDN'T -- it put the car into READY mode. This is while I'm in the passenger seat, no one is pressing the brake pedal, and there is no smartkey in the car. I think I found a bug in the system. I'll try and repeat this again. If it is repeatable, I suspect it will become a recall issue for Toyota since it effectively leaves the car in a mode where the passenger can cause the car to start moving with no driver in the car. (Imagine - child, lawsuit, etc)...

 

Hey, it worked. I got the stupid prompt that tells me to wait for the beep to stop. This was totally non-intuitive because you would think that turning off "voice guidance" would turn off the voice during a trip, rather than the stupid prompt. But whatever.

THANKS!!!!