For the first time ever, I paired my Android with my car. Just in case I needed to make/receive a call while using Waze to navigate. Don't normally use my phone in the car.

Was a long motorway trip so I used the voice commands on the radio and media. With limited success as usual.

Suddenly, the voice said "calling emergency breakdown services". No means of cancelling apart from turning the phone off. Disconnected from Bluetooth at the first opportunity.

Technology and me don't always get on.

 

I hate voice command, it's not advanced enough and the number of times it misunderstands me is silly so I just don't use it.

 

Never had it try to do an SOS call though.

Whilst the Black Country Accent (and I don't have a particularly strong one) may be close to Chaucer's English, it's far removed from what the Octavia wants for voice commands. It doesn't even understand Mrs Cakemonster and she's way posher than me...

 

"I just doh spake proper enuff for it"

3 hours ago, Cakemonster said:

Whilst the Black Country Accent (and I don't have a particularly strong one) may be close to Chaucer's English, it's far removed from what the Octavia wants for voice commands. It doesn't even understand Mrs Cakemonster and she's way posher than me...

 

"I just doh spake proper enuff for it"

 

That bostin' our kid. 

I have strong Black country accent, and me mates cort understond me most of the time , that's their tuff luck.

 

You can take a boy out the Black country, but yo cor tek the black country out the boy.

 

Now living in Milton Keynes, reason.........work.

 

 

Trev

I find the media buttons on the steering wheel work well... that's why I have a 1400 song playlist called "better than radio 2"... 2 phones normally connected, works well. Even wakes Spotify up from sleep. But I've not used the voice commands, I don't see the point.

 

 - Bret

The only reason to use voice command is that it involves less button pressing through the menus. I've not got steering wheel buttons. But it is erratic in my car- and I also forget what the options are. Never again.

Voice control will be crap on non Internet connected devices as they just don't have the grunt and data resources to allow them to function properly when compared to something like Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant. They're only there for novelty value imo. 

I'm a Scouser, when I talk to my car it's locking wheel nuts tighten  and the radio pretends to be broken.

I never use voice activation, it's crap.  I've got my work and personal phone paired at the same time and set favourites for all the people I contact set up on the head unit.