Voice Control and Speech - Issues and Questions

[boardie_19]

DV52,

My bad.... i pressed the traffic button this morning and it brought up a whole heap of traffic delays around town. I took a few pics but have no idea how to upload on this thing (although i was able to with the initial sign up i think).

Down in the corner it displayed SUNA... maybe thats the system that supports it.

Anyways, doubt i will ever use it being in the car on a weekend at the most.... but disappointing that others don't have access to this.

[DV52]

DV52,

My bad.... i pressed the traffic button this morning and it brought up a whole heap of traffic delays around town. I took a few pics but have no idea how to upload on this thing (although i was able to with the initial sign up i think).

Down in the corner it displayed SUNA... maybe thats the system that supports it.

Anyways, doubt i will ever use it being in the car on a weekend at the most.... but disappointing that others don't have access to this.

Boardie_19: Congrarts, seems like Traffic is active on your new car! SUNA is the provider of the traffic reports. You should also see a series of small triangles on the SATNAV screen in the locations where these warks are being conducted. If you touch the screen at these points, a more detailed report is displayed.

As for how to post pics on this forum, this is how it's done (for future reference):

Place the cursor where you want the pic to be inserted, click the tag symbol that I have circled in the pic below:

The background will go opaque and you will then get the windows dialogue box shown in the screen below

If the file that you want to paste onto your post is on your PC (likely this will be the case), make sure that the "From Computer" tab is selected (I've circled this tab). Then click "Basic Uploader" (circled in the bottom RHS of the dialogue box)

You should then get the next screen

Click the " Browse" button and find your file on your PC. Once the location of the file is shown on the tab next to the Browse button, press "Upload files(s)" tab and wait a few seconds for the magic to happen. Note: there are restrictions on the type of files that can be pasted into a post

Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing examples of your new-found expertise

[boardie_19]

Thanks so much... great for future reference!

[Spydar]

I just got voice control added to my 4 week old 7R. I negotiated it in the sale ( ie Free)

Thank god I didn't pay for it. I had voice control in my Mk6 GTI and although it sometime struggled to understand it was a hundred times better. The mk6 would let me enter street names and towns in the navigation section. The discover media in the R does not. Plus its a bit slower to acknowledge a command and move to the next command option.

If you don't negotiate it in the deal - do yourself a favour and dont bother paying the $500 and get it installed later. You're better off putting towards some aftermarket accessories or tinted windows etc. Its an absolute joke. And i agree with comments about the Mercedes voice control... VWG need to pull their fingers out and get a proper voice control system. Even ford is got a cracker!

[grtuned]

All types of voice control systems are difficult to use at times. Using Siri on an I phone is a joke and even on genuine older Vw systems it was difficult to get it right the first time. I don't think technology is good enough to differentiate accents at the moment or will ever be.
Good advise in suggesting other options for people to spend money on rather than something you will eventually get annoyed with and never use.

[BFPO40]

I have full voice control on my nav pro, it is......rubbish.

Ok for quick navigation and calls provided the name / location is super clear, obvious etc.

Much of the time I get frustrated with it getting it wrong and give up - it is almost like a Monty Python sketch.

If you think Siri is bad.......the VW system is infinitely worse.

[Dawson]

So I've got a courtesy GTI PP while my GTI is getting fixed and it's got the voice control activated and seems easy enough to use, but when speaking to the service center about it they said it's just a code that they have to buy from VW to activate the voice control, nothing more.
Will be interesting to see if someone can come up with a work around to activate it.

[fastmk7]

I believe it is available from dealers as an accessory , in this case no doubt an encrypted download cost suposedly approx $375.

[DV52]

So I've got a courtesy GTI PP while my GTI is getting fixed and it's got the voice control activated and seems easy enough to use, but when speaking to the service center about it they said it's just a code that they have to buy from VW to activate the voice control, nothing more.
Will be interesting to see if someone can come up with a work around to activate it.

Dawson: VWW's resident VCDS guru (Ryan_R) tried to crack the code for enabling voice control with a little input from me. His (and a few other knowledgeable forum members') conclusion after much tinkering was that the fix is more than a "tweak" with a VCDS cable.

You can read about our findings here (read down to jdbrown1953's post).

It seems that other than a simple change of setting to bit1 of byte24 in address 5F control module, the "code" that your dealer mentioned provides the actual commands upon which voice control operates. In some VW models (like some Audi vehicles) this code is resident in the car - but this appears not to be the case in the mk7.

Without a copy of this code, I'm not sure that a work-around is possible. No one has been able to provide a crack for this feature to date - but I would be delighted to be proven wrong!

[Dawson]

Dawson: VWW's resident VCDS guru (Ryan_R) tried to crack the code for enabling voice control with a little input from me. His (and a few other knowledgeable forum members') conclusion after much tinkering was that the fix is more than a "tweak" with a VCDS cable.

You can read about our findings here (read down to jdbrown1953's post).

It seems that other than a simple change of setting to bit1 of byte24 in address 5F control module, the "code" that your dealer mentioned provides the actual commands upon which voice control operates. In some VW models (like some Audi vehicles) this code is resident in the car - but this appears not to be the case in the mk7.

Without a copy of this code, I'm not sure that a work-around is possible. No one has been able to provide a crack for this feature to date - but I would be delighted to be proven wrong!

DV52,

agree with everything you said, im sure its a case of the service manager not knowing the 100% details of the update, she was on our side though and actually said it was a joke that they have to buy the update from VW Head office and then on sell the "update" for something already in the car.
The GTI PP loan car I had for 2 days had it enabled, wasn't perfect, but it more to the point frustrated me more that the voice buttons don't work in my car! Haha