Just been playing with the voice control in my Mondeo, and found it utterly useless, but also unintentionally hilarious.
It's difficult to describe the simple joy of saying "CD Player" and for the car to respond with "Redial, yes or no?". Or the guiltless pleasure of commanding in your clearest voice "Radio" and the car to merrily respond "CD Player".
I had before thought voice control to be a pointless gimmick. Now I realise it's an invaluable aid to preventing stress behind the wheel. I love it.
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If you wanted to scare it, you could try: "Hail!"
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It was probably fine till it got that bang on the head......
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Our A4 has voice control (or Speech Dialogue System as Audi call it) and I actually find it pretty good, especially for entering destinations which it seems to pick up even when spelled quickly. Its often used roof-down and, as long as you're within the speed limit in both UK it even works pretty well. Previous BMWs ave worked in the same way has the Ford set up though! The SDS function is the one thing I miss in my new car; it has the lower spec satnav rather than the full blown version...
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I have the same voice control in my Mondeo and find it invaluable for changing the track from 1 to say 78 when playing mp3's.It beats pressing the button 77 times!.
In general i find it recognizes my voice quite well and only stumbles when there's alot of background noise like the blower being on.
I did have a funny moment the other day.I wanted to change the radio to 96.5 fm but just as i had said the 96 bit i sneezed which sounded like a 'chew' sound.
The car responded with "Playing 96.2"!
Doh.
You can't win them all!
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Have you tried using a Spanish or German accent?
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It is useful in my A8, but I only use it for navigation addresses, not music or phone etc... It just seems t0o much of a learning curve.
Anyone else remember this with Clarkson vs. S class?
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Mine has some weird bits. I can, for example, press the button to activate it, and say "increase temperature". If it works, it raises the temperature, allegedly by half a degree. Alternatively it might dial someone random up, reset my destination or turn the radio to Kiss FM, which will result in ever increasing arm waving, swearing of the first water, and probably unruly hair.
Or I can press the button right next to the first one that raises the temperature, allegedly by half a degree.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Tue 3 Jul 12 at 11:43
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I really only use mine for the phone - it's the only function that I use frequently that I can't do with dedicated buttons and needs multiple taps on the screen to do what I want. I must learn how to tell the satnav to 'get me around this holdup' though.
>Have you tried using a Spanish or German accent?
My Tataguar understands a Hindi/Brummie accent best.
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Ford - The joy of...voice control - Iffy
