Voice Control Not Linked To Navigation Favorites?

[Petra]

So, I normally don't use the voice commands but was messing around with them yesterday and I noticed that, while the car will navigate to places of interest via voice command in v8.0, asking the car to navigate to a user created navigation favorite (with a custom title) doesn't seem to work. Based on the feedback from the car, it correctly picks up what I'm saying but seems unable to match that with the identically named item in navigation favorites.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or, perhaps a better question, has this ever worked? I'm just curious since I don't normally use the voice commands.

 

[thimel]

So, I normally don't use the voice commands but was messing around with them yesterday and I noticed that, while the car will navigate to places of interest via voice command in v8.0, asking the car to navigate to a user created navigation favorite (with a custom title) doesn't seem to work. Based on the feedback from the car, it correctly picks up what I'm saying but seems unable to match that with the identically named item in navigation favorites.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or, perhaps a better question, has this ever worked? I'm just curious since I don't normally use the voice commands.

I'm pretty sure the navigation voice command does a Google search and doesn't look at anything local on the car. You can navigate to someone in your contact list by saying "phone John Doe." It will bring up matching contacts and by touching the address, it will navigate there. Note this always works in 7.1. In 8.0, if there is only one matching contact, it immediately calls it without showing a list.

 

[BerTX]

Navigate to "Home" or "Work" is recognized. I have never tried anything else.

 

[LoL Rick]

Home and Work, but that's it. The other favorites are not recognized by name.

 

[Petra]

Home and Work, but that's it. The other favorites are not recognized by name.

That's what I figured... Though, with the new sensor suite and push for eventual level 5 autonomy in new vehicles, I could see Tesla integrating nav favorites into the voice command set at some point in the future.

 

[AmpedRealtor]

You what else voice control is not linked to? Try and voice navigate to one of your contact addresses...

 

[LoL Rick]

You what else voice control is not linked to?

Anything truly useful.

 

[AmpedRealtor]

My sister's 5 year-old Lexus has a far more robust voice navigation system that doesn't require cellular connectivity to a server in order to figure out what she is saying. Seems like Tesla's system is a big step backward.

 

[JohnPW]

This remains a design shortcoming - using voice commands to navigate to destinations set as favourites would be useful. How about it Elon?

 

[AustinP]

Odd, this works great for me.

The bakery where I go has a foreign name that the voice never understands. So I created a favorite, with the name "the bakery". And I then say "drive to the bakery". In my car, it will first check the favorites, and not search google or the map.
Same for the hockey club of my son. Works flawlessly.

Note: I'm french speaking, so voice is also set for French

 

[jgt1942]

I've had VERY limited success with voice navigation on my 2020 M3 with v11.4.4 . For me, voice function is extremely limited and disappointing.