View Poll Results: Do you use voice commands?
Most of the time with phone and NAV
3
4.84%
Most of the time with phone, rarely with the NAV
7
11.29%
Most of the time with NAV, rarely with the phone
2
3.23%
Some of the time with phone and NAV
4
6.45%
Some of the time with phone, never with the NAV
13
20.97%
Some of the time with NAV, never with the phone
4
6.45%
Never with NAV or phone
21
33.87%
Why bother? No one listens to me, not even the car!
8
12.90%
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Do you use Voice Commands

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Old 05-09-2008, 01:08 PM
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Default Re: Do you use Voice Commands

Originally Posted by haroldo
dial by name isn't that bad
*press the talk button
*say "dial by name"
*listen for repeat from car, as soon as it starts to say "dial..." press talk button
*say person's name
*listen for car to say the name, as soon as it starts to say the name, press off hook

it can be done relatively quickly, even though it's not a perfect system.
My real complaint is that it takes three button-pushes to do what could be done in one: Push the speech button, and say "Call John". The system should respond with a confirmation, and as long as it got it right you do nothing further, and it dials. IF it got it wrong, you hit the speech button again and try again before it starts dialing.
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 11:49 AM
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I don't have NAV but voice commands for my phone work just fine. What I've been reading here supports my decision to go "navless".
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 12:20 PM
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Default Re: Do you use Voice Commands

Originally Posted by mikieboyblue
30 seconds is too long...
Originally Posted by haroldo
It's usually faster than 30 seconds...I'll time it tonight, but I think the whole process is under 10 seconds.
yup, under ten seconds, I guess non-NAV is a different system
 
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Old 05-11-2008, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by haroldo
yup, under ten seconds, I guess non-NAV is a different system
Yeah, I just confirmed that I must wait for her to finish speaking (with NAV). For example, if I have to gotten to the point where she is saying "...press the off-hook button to dial or say dial after the beep..." I can hit the off-hook button all I want and hit the voice button all I want and she will just keep talking -- ignoring me.
 
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Old 05-12-2008, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by mikieboyblue
Yeah, I just confirmed that I must wait for her to finish speaking (with NAV). ... I can hit the off-hook button all I want and hit the voice button all I want and she will just keep talking -- ignoring me.
So, non-NAV is like having a girl friend...she listens to you and you can interrupt her without problems. She let's you drive without harassing you every few minutes.
The NAV version is like having a wife...she completely ignores what you have to say and you have to wait for her to finish talking, even though it's the same thing over and over again and you know exactly what she's going to say before you say it! She is constantly telling you what to do "Turn here", "Make a U-turn"
 

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Old 05-12-2008, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by haroldo
So, non-NAV is like having a girl friend...she listens to you and you can interrupt her without problems. She let's you drive without harassing you every few minutes.
The NAV version is like having a wife...she completely ignores what you have to say and you have to wait for her to finish talking, even though it's the same thing over and over again and you know exactly what she's going to say before you say it! She is constantly telling you what to do "Turn here", "Make a U-turn"
And for that, you pay $ 1500 EXTRA? . Yup, another parallel..
 
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Old 05-12-2008, 04:43 AM
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$1500..trust me, pal, you'll need to add a few zeros!
The only advantage of the NAV-version is (as long as you are alone), you can take out your frustrations on your wife.
Her "Turn here"
You "Shut up!"
Her "You missed the turn, make a U-Turn"
You "Yeah, I know, I did that on purpose! I want to visit my old girlfriend's neighborhood"
etc...

plus the ability to turn the volume down...all the way to zero!
 
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Old 05-12-2008, 05:30 AM
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haha
 
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Old 05-12-2008, 06:45 AM
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Funny! My dad who will be 77 this year calls my mom his NAGIVATOR! Funny thing is she laughs about it. They have been married over 54 or 55 years or so now. Like my grandma used to say" That's a long time to feed someone else's kid!"
 
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Old 05-14-2008, 02:35 AM
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A tip from another thread that I never knew...
Originally Posted by Moptop
I've noticed you don't even have to say "dial by name" and then say the name. You can just press the talk button and say the voice entry and then press the off-hook button and it starts dialing right away.
 


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