How does the voice rec work do you have to press a button on the z1 itself or do they give you a button on the steering, I know they sell steering controls seperate, and I know the mic is included on the z1 but how does it work, do you have to repeat often cause it doesn't understand ?? Just curious before I get mine today or tomorrow

Voice rec? What feature is this?

edrock200 said:

Voice rec? What feature is this?

oh voice recognition...theres a button both on the screen and on the optional steering wheel remote. I generally don't have to repeat and it's pretty good. It does seem to be innacurate if my windows are down.

cool what kind of commands are you impressed by

Tyrant11429 said:

cool what kind of commands are you impressed by

Well, it doesn't work on the Avic-Z1, but my wife has a 2006 Acura MDX and you can hit the little voice button and say

"Find closest Acura Dealer"

And it does. I'm pretty impressed with that. :)

Overall I am pretty happy with the unit, but the voice recognition SUCKS. Today I tried to get it to dial phone numbers for over a half an hour, it never got it right once. There are a few commands that work well with it, like return home. For the most part it sucks and the frustration is more distracting that just using the buttons on the screen.

Dustin

ducatiboy said:

Tyrant11429 said:

cool what kind of commands are you impressed by

Well, it doesn't work on the Avic-Z1, but my wife has a 2006 Acura MDX and you can hit the little voice button and say

"Find closest Acura Dealer"

And it does. I'm pretty impressed with that. :)

on my sisters TL when ever i drive it with my mom in the car i always get her with "what time is it?" and she goes to answer then the car tells you. she gets embarrassed, its funny. you should try it.

I use the phone dialing feature all the time. I memorize most of the #'s I use and the voice recognition hasn't gotten it wrong for me yet. I think a portion of the problems that people are having might have to do with mic placement and noise levels in the car.

Commands I use often are:
Return Home
Point of Interest
Display Telephone (Book) If I say book it mistakes it for back, so I just don't say the word book and it still works)
XM
iPod
Traffic on Route
Traffic Events
Reroute
# Map Scale

where is the best place to mount the mic ?

Mine works great. Did you mount the mic properly?

dustind33 said:

Overall I am pretty happy with the unit, but the voice recognition SUCKS. Today I tried to get it to dial phone numbers for over a half an hour, it never got it right once. There are a few commands that work well with it, like return home. For the most part it sucks and the frustration is more distracting that just using the buttons on the screen.

Dustin

Im pretty happy with it as well, it even recognizes my redneck WV accent most times lol

you guys that are having good luck where did you mount your mics at? are there many options? i was going to run mine up the a-pillar to the driver sunvisor?....only place i could think of?....

Mine is mounted right beside the drivers side A-pilar (top corner of the windshield)

03Vic-HPP said:

Mine is mounted right beside the drivers side A-pilar (top corner of the windshield)

That's exactly where I put mine too. And it works ok.

I mounted my mic on the drivers sun visor on the right side. Works well but admittedly I haven't used it that much. I am waiting for my bluetooth adapter to really test it out.

My installer mounted it right above the rear-view mirror. He stated that wind noise from the window will be a problem if installed on the driver's sunvisor or pillar. So far I have not had any problems.

Navyguy

I put mine on the steering column. Right above the windshield wiper adjuster.

It almost looks stock and works for most of my commands. Sometime Ipod is tough though but everything else works the first time.

I wish, we could use it for more things like controlling the volume or changing tracks.

Its funny how for some of us, like me, technology is improving our lives by making us lazier. :)

Ditto to logan's comment, for me.

I have had my Z1 since middle of May. The Voice Recognition barely works at all. I wanted to visit a friend who was in the local hospital and I used the Voice Recognition to "GO TO HOSPITAL" . I was directed to Murfreesboro, TN. I did POI etc but it would turn to the FM radio etc.

If I didn't know where the hospital was, I would have never found it using VR. When I entered "hospital" manually by typing it in to the POI field I was directed right to it.

I agree with the Acura MDX comment. The VR in the MDX was unbelievable. If it was only a bigger vehicle. I bought a Seqouia instead.

I am still waiting for the Bluetooth and XM. XM is in but I only want to make one trip to the dealer. He also has a replacement Z1 unit coming for my VR problems.

Very dissapointed as I have a Garmin Streetfinder that I paid $600 last year and it is a much better GPS unit. Constantly recalculates etc. I most likely will go with Ducattii's fix if I decide to keep the unit.

RFGA


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