Voice Control...

[ManiacGT]

Any of you guys have voice control? Any tips to get the best from it?

Mine works 80% of the time, but with the roof down, it hardly works at all due to ambient noise. Just wondering if there's a way to improve accuracy...

[BuckarooVT90]

does rolling windows up help?

[jparnes1]

Originally Posted by BuckarooVT90

does rolling windows up help?

+1
Maniac - maybe it's your English accent

[army_men]

entering address by voice control is a huge miss. i can get it to work only 20% of the time.

It usually will take me to a different state/province altogether.

everything else is fine tho.

[jparnes1]

Originally Posted by army_men

entering address by voice control is a huge miss. i can get it to work only 20% of the time.

It usually will take me to a different state/province altogether.

everything else is fine tho.

I get it to work well, but it's very time consuming to enter it in the car. I will most often send the address to the car from Gmail. Much quicker and easier.

[nicknaz]

Originally Posted by ManiacGT

Any of you guys have voice control? Any tips to get the best from it?

Mine works 80% of the time, but with the roof down, it hardly works at all due to ambient noise. Just wondering if there's a way to improve accuracy...

I can't even get my car to dial a number without a struggle.. and can never remember the set commands.

Do you iDrive guys have to use set phrases or can you speak naturally (i.e. like you were asking Siri something)

[jparnes1]

Originally Posted by nicknaz

I can't even get my car to dial a number without a struggle.. and can never remember the set commands.

Do you iDrive guys have to use set phrases or can you speak naturally (i.e. like you were asking Siri something)

It should be in the owner's manual. there are set phrases, like if you want to call someone, you go, "phone book" then you're prompted to say a name, then you're prompted to request a call. Or for Nav, you go, "Address book,", then there are prompts after that. But unlike Siri, there are no cute answers when you ask Siri to go F*** herself.

[ManiacGT]

Originally Posted by jparnes1

+1
Maniac - maybe it's your English accent

Lol perhaps I need to adopt a German accent

[nicknaz]

Originally Posted by jparnes1

It should be in the owner's manual. there are set phrases, like if you want to call someone, you go, "phone book" then you're prompted to say a name, then you're prompted to request a call. Or for Nav, you go, "Address book,", then there are prompts after that. But unlike Siri, there are no cute answers when you ask Siri to go F*** herself.

The car can't differentiate names very well (at least for me) and muffs it up when I dictate a phone number.

I have better luck dictating into my phone and initiating the call that way..

Never asked my phone that... but I bet if I told my E89 to F*** himself he would be like.. oh yea.. F*** you too, how about some LIMP MODE biatch

[ManiacGT]

In frustration I did once tell the car to f#ck off.. It asked me to re state the destination lol...

[jparnes1]

Never asked my phone that... but I bet if I told my E89 to F*** himself he would be like.. oh yea.. F*** you too, how about some LIMP MODE biatch [/QUOTE]

LOL!!!!!

[nicknaz]

Originally Posted by ManiacGT

In frustration I did once tell the car to f#ck off.. It asked me to re state the destination lol...

Would've been awesome if it navigated you to the nearest "club"

BTW, what commands do you use? I would like to test this some more to see if I can get more accuracy because right now I only use the dial number command (dictating the number) and it is a 60% failure rate at least

[army_men]

I dont mind siri, if bmw can just implement actual usable voice control with limited AI, I'm game. Siri never had a issue finding the closest escort service when i start throwing the F bombs, i think iDrive should be able to do that too and maybe automate a message home saying i'll be late for dinner or something.

just a thought.

[CeEl]

Originally Posted by ManiacGT

Lol perhaps I need to adopt a German accent

Makes it worse. I have a heavy German accent. I thought finally a car that understands me ... but no.

[CeEl]

Originally Posted by nicknaz

I can't even get my car to dial a number without a struggle.. and can never remember the set commands.

Do you iDrive guys have to use set phrases or can you speak naturally (i.e. like you were asking Siri something)

It's a bit easier with iDrive because it more or less displays the commands and you can just read them off the screen once you are in the proper submenu (e.g. Phone menu).