My Toyota Yaris iA (much same as Mazda 2) had a voice recognition system that wud not work. I discovered I had to turn down or off the A/C to use it, probably becs the fan was generating too much noise in the microphone, wherever that is.
I have the Grand Select Model. The voice recognition does not work for the navigation system ; it won't take an address, and I can enter it manually. It works fine for music and phone. I''ve been told that the voice recognition only works in large cities ; I live in a city with a population of over 500,000. The service people claim I don't need a new SD card and that this is a limitation on the Grand Select. Have you ever heard this?
Disclaimer: I have a German car, set to "German" as the vehicle's language. So YMMV with a system set to "English". After a couple of months with the MZD in my new MX-5, I have to admit I hardly ever use it. Too unreliable when it comes to understanding specific commands (like calling a certain contact from my phone). Plus it is too slow to react and isn't very intuitive when it comes to helping you out. The voice-command-system in my parents' new Tiguan for example will display possible commands "step-by-step" on the main screen, making it super easy to use even for complete novices. And then there's the minor gripe that my car is set to German and I seem to have to pronounce English terms (like artists' names on my ipod) as if they were German words - otherwise the MZD gets confused and won't understand what I'm talking about.. :) The saving grace is the overall decent "manual" control scheme. The knob-thingie is nearly as good as BMW's i-drive and jumping between menus is easy to learn and get used to. All in all however, I can't help but think that both the voice recognition *and* the touchscreen-capability of the MZD are kinda superfluous. Using the manual controls is easier, faster and more intuitive than either of those two other input methods.
how come i can't just say a name of a restaurant and location for nav? it keeps asking me for the complete address of the place i'm trying to go. what if i don't know the full address ?
Commands: FM, AM, USB, XM, Show me the message, browse contacts, call, call Bob, call Bob Mobile, tune to FM, Tune to AM, Tune to USB, play Bob Marley, browse songs,
"Navigate to Boston Pizza" "Did you want to go to Chichen Izta? Just horrible. Why do car companies even bother. Just add more features for phones like a dock and wireless charging.
Anyway to raise the volume of the voice? The navigation voice is fine but, this one comes through very low.
My Toyota Yaris iA (much same as Mazda 2) had a voice recognition system that wud not work. I discovered I had to turn down or off the A/C to use it, probably becs the fan was generating too much noise in the microphone, wherever that is.
I have the Grand Select Model. The voice recognition does not work for the navigation system ; it won't take an address, and I can enter it manually. It works fine for music and phone. I''ve been told that the voice recognition only works in large cities ; I live in a city with a population of over 500,000. The service people claim I don't need a new SD card and that this is a limitation on the Grand Select. Have you ever heard this?
Disclaimer: I have a German car, set to "German" as the vehicle's language. So YMMV with a system set to "English".
After a couple of months with the MZD in my new MX-5, I have to admit I hardly ever use it. Too unreliable when it comes to understanding specific commands (like calling a certain contact from my phone).
Plus it is too slow to react and isn't very intuitive when it comes to helping you out. The voice-command-system in my parents' new Tiguan for example will display possible commands "step-by-step" on the main screen, making it super easy to use even for complete novices.
And then there's the minor gripe that my car is set to German and I seem to have to pronounce English terms (like artists' names on my ipod) as if they were German words - otherwise the MZD gets confused and won't understand what I'm talking about.. :)
The saving grace is the overall decent "manual" control scheme. The knob-thingie is nearly as good as BMW's i-drive and jumping between menus is easy to learn and get used to.
All in all however, I can't help but think that both the voice recognition *and* the touchscreen-capability of the MZD are kinda superfluous. Using the manual controls is easier, faster and more intuitive than either of those two other input methods.
how come i can't just say a name of a restaurant and location for nav? it keeps asking me for the complete address of the place i'm trying to go. what if i don't know the full address ?
Agreed. Did you figure this out? Sounds like you can only search for POI near you and cant just say a place without the address...
Did not work that well. Bit like mine.
Please show us the headlights, high beams at night. Thanks for your videos.
Absolutely I will make a lighting system video. Coming Soon stay tuned!!
Why don't you just test drive one and see it for yourself?
Commands: FM, AM, USB, XM, Show me the message, browse contacts, call, call Bob, call Bob Mobile, tune to FM, Tune to AM, Tune to USB, play Bob Marley, browse songs,
"Navigate to Boston Pizza" "Did you want to go to Chichen Izta? Just horrible. Why do car companies even bother. Just add more features for phones like a dock and wireless charging.