Voice commands not recognized

[silentgreen]

Pretty frequently, my voice recognition does nothing at all (beeps, icon turn green, but it acts like I said nothing), that is highly frustrating. But when it does work mine does pretty well.

I have this issue to. Seemed to happen 2 updates ago, so I think it‘s a software bug. But for me sometimes it works, sometimes not, so I haven’t taken it in for service yet. And I can fix it with a reboot. But very frustrating because it will just go out randomly.

 

[archae86]

When I picked up my model 3 today, initially voice recognition did nearly nothing. If I attempted to navigate by text, I got some odd notification akin to "offline mode".

Bottom line--my connectivity was not active. This seems really odd to me, but apparently Tesla voice recognition relies in considerable measure on real-time access to resources outside the car.

So if your voice recognition works sometimes, and not others, consider the possibility that it might be a connectivity problem. I think the base connectivity in the cars relies on one or more of the major cell-phone networks--and they all have some holes in their coverage.

 

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Bottom line--my connectivity was not active. This seems really odd to me, but apparently Tesla voice recognition relies in considerable measure on real-time access to resources outside the car.

This is the case with most devices that have voice recognition. The actual voice recognition is being done on a server somewhere in the cloud, not on your phone, TV, Alexa, smart assistant, or Tesla.