Yes, it’s enabled in the phone for message access and contact sharing, the “sync messages” option on the car is not visibledid you RTFM on how to enable it, in the release notes
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Yes, it’s enabled in the phone for message access and contact sharing, the “sync messages” option on the car is not visibledid you RTFM on how to enable it, in the release notes
It's a complete train wreck. Almost never listens at all, and when it does it gets it wrong. Can't do temperature in celcius, confuses on and off, ... Can't understand why Tesla released it at all!!
... it seems a bit silly to have to tell your car to do something from within it via an Internet service.
Tiny amount of data, huge processing power back at the mothership and only one set of voice recognition code to maintain, is why. But yes, it does require an internet connection of sorts.
However Elon/Spacex are in the process of launching a 12,000 satellite constellation to improve reception - name one other manufacturer that is competing with that!
Adjusting the temperature controls by hand has been one of my gripes with the car so I was excited to hear about the voice command improvements. Installed the update last night. Have not yet done a reboot but will try that a little later on to see if it helps, though I am doubtful given that this seems to rely on some central server to do the processing. Also, connected to my home WiFi (which tends to be pretty good but in case it makes any difference to connectivity just mentioning it here.)
Often, the speech recognition does not even start to happen. The microphone appears and after a few seconds of speaking it makes some suggestions about what to say - and continues to not hear me.
When it does hear me, the transcription appears to be pretty accurate (reminds me of watching the news with subtitles on with the way in which it corrects itself) - which is good.
Unfortunately a lot of things just don't seem to be understood. I managed to turn the air conditioning on and adjust the temperature, but could not turn it off. Could turn on/off seat heaters. Could open the glove box. Could not find places on the map or open the autopilot settings or show the rear camera (suggestions from the release notes and the prompt that appears after a few seconds of it not hearing anything.)
Things I tried:
"Let's go to work" - seems to work (asks me to set my work address as I haven't set it before)
"Turn on the driver seat heater" - works, gets set to high
"Turn off the driver seat heater" - works
"Turn off climate control" - command not understood
"Turn off air conditioning" - command not understood
"Disable air conditioning" - understood (as "disable add condition") but responded with "enabling air conditioning"
"Stop air conditioning" - command not understood
"Set the temperature to 22 degrees" - enables climate control, does not set temperature
"Set the temperature to 22 degrees Celsius" - same as above
"Increase temperature" - raised temperature by 1.5C
"Lower temperature" - lowered temperature by 1.5C
"Open auto pilot settings" - command not understood (example from release notes)
"Open driver settings" - interpreted as "open Android the settings" and not understood
"Show me the rear camera" - command not understood (example from release notes)
"Open the glove box" - opened the glove box
"Where is [nearby road name]?" - command not understood
"Where is Basingstoke?" - command not understood
(The last two were based on a suggestion from the pop-up card.)
If they can sort out the evidently flaky connection and have it respond to the natural commands as expected, it'd be a massive improvement. Ideally though the speech should be processed by the car, even if that's something that is implemented later on. Mobile connectivity is far spottier than dealing with e.g. an Echo device on a home broadband connection and it seems a bit silly to have to tell your car to do something from within it via an Internet service.
Tiny amount of data, huge processing power back at the mothership and only one set of voice recognition code to maintain, is why. But yes, it does require an internet connection of sorts.
However Elon/Spacex are in the process of launching a 12,000 satellite constellation to improve reception - name one other manufacturer that is competing with that!
Alternatively as HAL9000 said
"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this.
I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
... well apart from if you are an astronomer you might get a little telescope blocked...
However Elon/Spacex are in the process of launching a 12,000 satellite constellation to improve reception - name one other manufacturer that is competing with that!
I don't think Tesla's are currently equipped for satellite internet
Mine were DOA earlier but will try again.Voice commands are working for me now. "Fold mirrors" I think will be most useful.
I wonder if they plan to deploy an edge NLP (natural language processing) model in the future, they would take pressure of the central cloud by running at least a subset of voice recognition locally. Would make sense as I’m often in an LTE not spot.