Just me, or do voice controls not work 50% of the time?

[ratsbew]

50% of the time when I press and hold the right ball nothing happens and it displays a text prompt that says something like "say" ...whatever examples it says. Most of the time I can't do bug reports because the thing doesn't hear my voice.

Is it just me?

 

[stonelance]

Yeah it seems to have problems ever since the 48 or 50 update.

 

[TexasEV]

It’s just you. Or at least they always work for me.

 

[phigment]

I see it too. Also, when network connection drops, no voice commands are available.

 

[Knightshade]

Works pretty flawlessly for me- just sad there's so few things you can actually do that way.

 

[ConSaab]

I also have issues with voice prompts being inconsistent.... I’m on version 2018.50.0

 

[100 H2O]

Voice control is desperately in need of major improvement. No amount of UI design will fix the biggest problem with the MCU - that you have to look at it to use it. It’s more unsafe than using a cell phone while driving. When Tesla addresses this problem with a significant improvement to voice control, and it works nearly flawlessly with a wide and versatile range of commands, we will all wonder how we got by without it.
I would like to see Tesla start with a small range of commonly used commands that work reliably, say for the hvac controls. Once this works reliably for a subset of the controls I think the demand will go way up and the path for development and prioritization will become clear. But the biggest motivation ought to be improved safety on the road.

 

[svp6]

I only use voice controls for the phone. I had multiple instances when the voice control does not seem to recognize anything I say. Once that happens, it does not reset on its own (say with overnight parking) - I have to do a hard reset to restore it.

 

[MczArgyle]

No question more voice controls are desperately needed--I could control almost everything with my C-max. I would say a high priority is the windshield wiper controls--the auto setting generally isn't fast enough for me, so when the light ran changes to a deluge, I'm desperately jabbing at the screen, which by the way, in a moving car isn't exactly successful every time. Or I just press the stalk single-wipe function over and over again until I can safely change the wiper setting. Definitely not a good situation.

 

[MczArgyle]

Oh and yes: I've never been able to successfully make a call with it. "Call " (whoever) doesn't work. What does work pretty well is the navigation--"navigate to the nearest Costco" works great!

 

[Needsdecaf]

Mine works like sh!t. Works less than 25% of the time. In fact I think the only time it works is when stationary, or slow. Never, never on the highway. Even for submitting bug reports.

I also noticed a few people complaining about the Bluetooth phone voice quality. Do they use the same mic? Might I have a problem?

 

[ksb467]

Mine works great as long as in lte or WiFi. It doesn’t if not

 

[BillO]

Wow, I wonder what the difference is? Even though there are only 3 main voice commands — call, play, and drive (navigate) — I find it to be the most useful feature that I wasn’t expecting. I get better than 90% recognition and my wife is totally jealous compared to her 2016 BMW 4 series. You can say things like “drive to fast food” and get a list of nearby places. “Drive to rest stop” and it will list upcoming state rest stops. Even “drive to urgent care”. I find it to be totally amazing and very useful.

 

[BillO]

Umm, one other thing. I don’t press and hold the right wheel, I just press it and let go right away, like a button press.

 

[skitown]

Umm, one other thing. I don’t press and hold the right wheel, I just press it and let go right away, like a button press.

Good point. I bet people with iOS devices are used to holding the button like they would for Siri. I find myself doing that in our Tesla’s sometimes inadvertantly.

 

[EV-lutioin]

Ask Siri

 

[eli_]

Wow, I wonder what the difference is? Even though there are only 3 main voice commands — call, play, and drive (navigate) — I find it to be the most useful feature that I wasn’t expecting. I get better than 90% recognition and my wife is totally jealous compared to her 2016 BMW 4 series. You can say things like “drive to fast food” and get a list of nearby places. “Drive to rest stop” and it will list upcoming state rest stops. Even “drive to urgent care”. I find it to be totally amazing and very useful.

Yeah it's great cause it's an online speech recognition model, I think someone before said they used Google's API for speech reconigition? Most cars only have an offline model so they're limited to just a few canned phrases. The trade-off is the online model breaks when there's no connectivity. I can't set navigation via voice when I'm in an underground garage, which is a bummer.

 

[MczArgyle]

hmm, maybe my issue is related to lack of connectivity--I'm seeing that very often I have no LTE, which I think is causing other issues too. And I do just push the button, not hold it down...

 

[Bfeltovi]

50% of the time when I press and hold the right ball nothing happens and it displays a text prompt that says something like "say" ...whatever examples it says. Most of the time I can't do bug reports because the thing doesn't hear my voice.

Is it just me?

I rarely use it apart from navigation. I would really like voice control to work well. Siri and Alexa and Google have made huge strides in voice recognition; Tesla needs to figure out how to integrate. On the plus side, when I have my iphone on the wireless charging mat I can ask Siri to make calls and to send text messages and for other info and she responds over the car's audio system, which is nice.

 

[16Coma]

I'm very disappointed in the voice control commands. I've had no success making calls or navigating.