My car done a over the air update earlier this month and ever since the voice for the maps stopped working even though the volume was set to full ( it would lower the volume of any music playing as if it were giving an announcement) I did a long press reset on the infotainment system and this seems to have fixed that issue but Laura appears to have gone deaf as using the wake word or the button on the steering wheel does nothing I just get the worry circle and nothing happens. Also my traffication notifications are silent again the voice volume is set to full any ideas what's going wrong?

I've been experiencing a bug with my maps just recently too (just posted a thread on it)

Don't normally use built in maps or voice control so no idea if that's affected, however, it seems to resonate that an OTA update may have caused the issue I'm experiencing, as I've experienced the same thing before (map constantly spinning)

I remember that when I opted to change Laura's voice from male to female a while back, the setting to do so wouldn't readily appear, I kept having to go back in and out of the setting menu to locate it. Just a hunch but maybe you have to set up voice activation in settings in a similar way?

22 hours ago, scotthugh3s said:

I've been experiencing a bug with my maps just recently too (just posted a thread on it)

Don't normally use built in maps or voice control so no idea if that's affected, however, it seems to resonate that an OTA update may have caused the issue I'm experiencing, as I've experienced the same thing before (map constantly spinning)

I remember that when I opted to change Laura's voice from male to female a while back, the setting to do so wouldn't readily appear, I kept having to go back in and out of the setting menu to locate it. Just a hunch but maybe you have to set up voice activation in settings in a similar way?

It always worked fine before the ota update so I am at a loss. This is my second octavia 4 and I have never found the setting to change the voice to female I just thought Laura was a crossdresser

The setting is there, however I don't remember exactly where, although I found it due to a poster on here so may be worth using the forum search.

I do remember that it wasn't straight forward, as I say most often I would access the correct menu where the setting was located, but it wouldn't often readily appear! Or it would appear briefly but then vanish.

I managed to click on it before it vanished at one point (after plenty of failed attempts) and managed to change the voice.

But I've absolutely no clue as to why it appears and disappears from the menu selection randomly. Come to think of it, I think it located in the language settings menu