On our 2020 superb it came with live sat nav. traffic and Laura voice control , car was 8 months old when purchased and not sure when Laura stopped as we didn,t use it.

Also when putting in destinations the sat nav. stopped giving voice directions, when this stopped working am not sure.

Although about a month ago when in conversation with a passenger Laura suddenly interrupted .

Still no sat nav. verbal directions tho.

Any one any ideas about the sat nav. verbal directions, I thought it was possibly only available by subscription.

Regards

Martin. 

Might be a simple as you've muted them accidentally? Changing the volume using the control on the steering wheel only works when it is actually talking. Or on the nav screen there is a volume change slider if you tap one of the icons bottom right.

 

Probably not, but quick to check at least 

I often find that the voice control fires up during normal conversation interrupting to say " how can I help".

 

+1 for crankcases comments regarding the voice control volume being accidentally set to zero. 

From the navigation screen settings menu you can adjust the volume back to a normal level. 

 

You can also press the voice control button on the steering wheel (or say hello Laura) and then say "turn up the navigation volume" to do this without the settings via  voice control...

 

I'll check the exact phrase in the morning..

 

 

Gabbo

I've never found voice control useful for anything much, and yes, it does pop up unexpectedly sometimes. I sometimes think I'll get it to play music, but usually I use "ok Google" to do that via Spotify. The actual command is  different on each system, and I can never remember the Laura one.

 

Entering nav instructions via Laura is pretty painful too I find.

I have it but have never used it on my Octavia.

I have to say I was quite surprised it is reasonably functional on the Superb.

 

Navigate home, play a band name, change  volume, turn off xxx, seems to work well if you can accept it's very slow and might take 5s für the system to be ready and another 5s to execute your request. 

 

I only ever use the button on the steering wheel to enable it

You're right in that "drive home" works well. It's if you want an address unknown to it then it's very slow by voice.

 

In my previous Toyota you could say things like "I'm cold" and it would increase the heat, but Laura doesn't. I also could say "I'm hungry" and it popped up nearby food places. I don't think Laura does that either.

 

I do pay annually for the Skoda live traffic though, which in the small print says it comes from TomTom. Then I use the satnav just as a fallback to Waze on the phone. Been useful a few times.

Even typing the address you want to go to is difficult with the Skoda navigation. 

Searching often takes a long time & it's not clever if you get the street or town swapped from how it's written in the database. 

 

I usually use Google maps from my phone to the Android auto for interesting locations.

The one thing I quite like on the Skoda satnav is the first screen that shows some of your previous destinations and straight lines connecting them to the middle, like a spider web. Took me ages to suss the different colours of the lines shows you roughly how congested the route to that destination is.

 

Nice touch.

Yeah I use that daily for the route home. 

 

Apart from the search I prefer the Skoda navigation over the Android auto alternative

Yeah, but unlike Waze you don't get warnings of police or potholes or weather, etc.