The car does not understand "give me directions to". The manual specifically says "Navigate to" or "Drive to". When you do not start with those words, it doesn't know what to do.
I guess it would be a good idea to read over the manual.
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The car does not understand "give me directions to". The manual specifically says "Navigate to" or "Drive to". When you do not start with those words, it doesn't know what to do.
Mine works great when it works at all...
About 50% of the time it works as expected, and is pretty much spot on for destination names (has some trouble with names when calling people in my address book, but is generally close enough that it calls the correct person or at least shows a list of potential contacts with the correct one in it).
The other 50% of the time it's almost like the microphone doesn't even turn on. The voice card pops up and appears to be listening but nothing I say is registered. Sometimes it will start to work again on its own after several tries, and sometimes I need to restart before it works again. I was assuming it was a software bug introduced in a recent release since it worked flawlessly when I first got the car but I've had two updates since it broke and the problem still appears. Probably time to schedule a SC appointment.
Fyi, this is the exact thing that happens when you haven't connected to LTE yet.The other 50% of the time it's almost like the microphone doesn't even turn on. The voice card pops up and appears to be listening but nothing I say is registered. Sometimes it will start to work again on its own after several tries, and sometimes I need to restart before it works again. I was assuming it was a software bug introduced in a recent release since it worked flawlessly when I first got the car but I've had two updates since it broke and the problem still appears. Probably time to schedule a SC appointment.
I’ve done lots of testing and as far as I can tell, connection strength and type (LTE or WiFi) don’t seem to be a factor when it stops working.Fyi, this is the exact thing that happens when you haven't connected to LTE yet.
Make sure it's connected, before doing a navigate command.
Mine works great when it works at all...
About 50% of the time it works as expected, and is pretty much spot on for destination names (has some trouble with names when calling people in my address book, but is generally close enough that it calls the correct person or at least shows a list of potential contacts with the correct one in it).
The other 50% of the time it's almost like the microphone doesn't even turn on. The voice card pops up and appears to be listening but nothing I say is registered. Sometimes it will start to work again on its own after several tries, and sometimes I need to restart before it works again. I was assuming it was a software bug introduced in a recent release since it worked flawlessly when I first got the car but I've had two updates since it broke and the problem still appears. Probably time to schedule a SC appointment.
I have yet to experience any problems with the voice command. I only wished the wheel button would interact with my phone...
Google Assistant or Siri! No button needed.
This is my experience as well. A majority of the time when I press the right scroll button or the microphone button on the screen the voice command shows up on the screen but simply does not recognize anything I say. It doesn't matter if the car is stopped or moving and it can be completely silent. It just doesn't work. If I reboot the system it typically starts working, but that means I'd have to reboot the MCU over half the time I use my car.
You can also say: "Where is ................"
Didn't we have a Wiki of accepted voice commands at one time??
I had problems like this early on - was hitting about 50% for the first few weeks with whether it would recognize anything and if it didn't, it probably wouldn't for the rest of that drive. For whatever reason (Updates? Learning my voice? Gremlins ejected?) it has gradually gotten better over time, and now only fails maybe 5% of the time - and when it does, I can try again in a minute or two and it works.
It has NEVER failed to correctly interpret a voice command, only failed to "hear" them. Very refreshing, since my last car (a 2014 Hyundai) was sitting on a lifetime 0% at getting commands right - yeah, I gave up after a couple of months.
Tesla's voice command system is light years behind the current state of the art. First of all it should have a wake word like "hey Siri". There is no technical reason for it to need a button to launch. Also, the vocabulary is pitifully small. Every variation of "navigate to..", "drive to...", "directions to..." should be bulletproof and other natural language things like "where is the nearest..." should be there also. And yes many system operations like wipers should be provided. Tesla does not need the depth of a connected voice assistant like Siri, but there is a lot of room for improvement on the local level. And the car -is- connected so something like Siri or Alexa could be added.
I'm not sure why Tesla's system is so embryonic. Hopefully they have someone working on this but I have a feeling that this part of the Tesla software is an ugly stepchild and is only tended to by guys who are not technically proficient in voice command.
I doubt we'll ever get a voice recognition system that doesn't require the driver to initiate the command by a button while the car still requires the driver to stay alert. This is more of a safety issue. Allowing others in the car to use the voice command without the driver initiating it could cause a distraction to the driver.
I don't agree that safety would be an issue. After all there are many things that are as bad or worse in that regard. A passenger can grab the wheel or do pretty much whatever they want with the touch panel already. Being able to kick off voice reco is not even in the same category of "distraction". Either you have your passengers under control or you do not -- adding voice control won't change that.
If you wanted to control that issue though, Tesla can already tell which seats are occupied -- make the wake word active only when the driver is the only occupant. Or use the wake word only for non-mission-critical stuff -- audio control is the big one IMO. Or simply make the wake word able to be disabled -- the driver would press the button and say "enable wake word" or something to make it work. It's so simple to add a wake word that it seems silly not to have it.
But I agree generally that the vocabulary is the main area voice control fails. It is embarrassingly poor IMO. Assuming that FSD will need a bulletproof voice interface I think Tesla has a lot of work to do.