Wonky
Member Since: 28 Nov 2006
Location: Brill, Aylesbury
Posts: 354
  
|
| Voice recognition problems |
|
Yeh, I know, pathetic to ask, but I am having difficulty in getting the voice recognition to work. Before you ask, I don't have a strange accent, even though I've been trying everything from Chinese to Russian!
Is there a way of training it, or is there something wrong that needs plugging into a computer?
ATB
Martin W
|
 15th Jan 2007 9:16 pm |
|
|
d3matt
Member Since: 03 Aug 2005
Location: South Oxfordshire
Posts: 1485
|
As far a I know, there is no training that needs to be done. Just try "help" then start progressing with additional commands.
Mine has always worked well and been very reliable (detection) until the software upgrade a few months back. Since then, it regularly gets it wrong and I've never been able to use the notepad function since - can't record, play or do anything with it - she just says "sorry" each time I try. Matt
|
| 15th Jan 2007 9:42 pm |
|
|
Wonky
Member Since: 28 Nov 2006
Location: Brill, Aylesbury
Posts: 354
|
I forgot to say mine's an '07MY.
I have only ever been able to get the CD to work using voice commands, despite reading all the commands correctly. I dunno if it means anything, but the voice is male - maybe he doesn't like me? 
Martin w
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:18 pm |
|
|
AndrewS
Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
Posts: 10438
|
Try the English female voice  In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:26 pm |
|
|
Gareth
Site Moderator
Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26705
|
Mine works almost all the time. The only thing that affects it is when I have the heater fan making lots of noise, usually first thing, during de-mist.
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:31 pm |
|
|
d3matt
Member Since: 03 Aug 2005
Location: South Oxfordshire
Posts: 1485
|
My car came with the male voice set from new. Soon changed it to the female voice. A female nagging in the car, is something I'm more accustomed too. Matt
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:32 pm |
|
|
Gareth
Site Moderator
Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26705
|
She is kind of attractive Except the "In 300 yards" woman is a bitch.
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:34 pm |
|
|
pjw
Member Since: 05 Sep 2006
Location: sussex
Posts: 17
  
|
how do you change from a male voice to a female voice, or is this not possible on the SE ?
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:39 pm |
|
|
DG
Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50944
|
It could be your voice My wife cannot be understood by both my D3 and her Fiesta Zetec S ....and yet I can be understood by the two motors ...but not by my wife  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:42 pm |
|
|
WOODY179
Member Since: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Chesterfield
Posts: 3637
|
pjw wrote:how do you change from a male voice to a female voice, or is this not possible on the SE ?
if you press the hard right nav button and go into settings there will be a setting called Audio (their is also a language setting - ignore that one), select this and make sure that English female is selected (no option for English male - at least not on mine). 1996 Discovery 1 300TDI ES Biarritz Blue, sold
1999 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Rioja Red, sold
2002 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Buckingham Blue, sold
2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Adriatic Blue, sold
2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Zambezi Silver, sold
2011 Discovery 4 SDV6 HSE Nara Bronze, sold
2016 Volvo XC60 D5 AWD Lux Nav Twilight Bronze, sold
2020 Range Rover Evoque P250 First Edition, Nolita grey, sold
2023 Range Rover Evoque P300e Autobiography, Carpathian grey
|
| 15th Jan 2007 10:55 pm |
|
|
pjw
Member Since: 05 Sep 2006
Location: sussex
Posts: 17
|
thanks woody 179, i meant to say male to female...........
|
| 15th Jan 2007 11:14 pm |
|
|
stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
Posts: 2330
|
Wonky, I too found this.
When driving a 2006 S I had no problems at all, but my 2007 HSE just apologised all the time.
I decided to have a play around, and eventually discovered that it's 'cos my voice is too deep pitched.
Try giving it commands whilst imagining your nadgers are in a clamp. It's sad, and not suitable for when you have passengers but the raise in pitch works. No really!
I'll be glad when there's a less embarassing fix  Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
|
| 16th Jan 2007 12:02 am |
|
|
Bodsy
Site Sponsor
Member Since: 06 Nov 2006
Location: In the Clubhouse
Posts: 21361
|
At a recent LRE 1/2 day, the guy who went round was talking about the D3 in general and the SatNav apparently has real difficulty recognising speech if you set it to American english.
Sounds exactly the same, but not got the right phonetics set up for it to recognise you.
Don't know how you change it, but the problem sounds the same as he'd described....
Worth a shot anyway...? Bodsys Brake Bible
D4/D3 Remote FBH heat kits
BAS Remaps/ EGR Blank
Transmission Flush
Software updates/enabling
Clock/ SNOTM /3Flash / 4x4Info /BT Update /Service Reset/Error Codes / Gearbox Reset
See It Here
|
| 16th Jan 2007 12:11 am |
|
|
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
|
A minor off topic point. If you get really  off doing the same old city route back and forward to work, change the sat nav voice to that of another country [preferably one you don't understand]. Hell, it makes the most mundane journey seem almost cosmopolitan. sad innit!! I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
|
| 16th Jan 2007 12:16 am |
|
|
Bodsy
Site Sponsor
Member Since: 06 Nov 2006
Location: In the Clubhouse
Posts: 21361
|
Or will help you learn directions in a different language 
At least teach you left and right Bodsys Brake Bible
D4/D3 Remote FBH heat kits
BAS Remaps/ EGR Blank
Transmission Flush
Software updates/enabling
Clock/ SNOTM /3Flash / 4x4Info /BT Update /Service Reset/Error Codes / Gearbox Reset
See It Here
|
| 16th Jan 2007 12:18 am |
|
|
