Any *definitive* word on Speech Recognition on #6?

Mine is a 2006 Pkg 7 but that shouldn't make a difference. Sorry, I misunderstood you remark about the "ding". I get the full sequence after pressing the speech button on the steering wheel: "her" question followed by a "ding". In my case maybe she will, or maybe she won't, respond with the correct action, but at least I think she is trying! I don't think there is anything wrong with my car as my kids can make the speech portion work correctly.

Since this whole sequence is nothing more than booting the program to recognize the spoken phrase, it sounds to me like your MFD needs reprograming. If you hear her voice but no ding, then the computer has not activated the microphone to receive your command, so something has broken down in the programing.

I wouldn't take delivery of this particular car until the dealer resolves this issue as the Speech portion of the MFD is just a very small part of all the things required of the MFD. Any electrical gremlins in this car could lead to nightmares!

Ed

 

i just picked up an 06 #6 yesterday. one of the first things i did was to push the speech button... i got no feedback from the car. i'll go play with it today.

 

Hmm...I thought this was a feature only on the 7 and 8 packages with the voice command DVD nav. Our #5 should be here in the next couple weeks and it would be an added bonus to have the voice commands.

 

Wynder

I know I may be stating the obvious here but: In the Owners Manual there are 3 different diagrams showing Types 1, 2 and 3 MFD's. I have a Type 1 with Nav per the diagrams. According to my manual Phone Voice commands work with Types 1 and 2 MFD's. The proper sequence for telephone (or Climate/Audio) Type 1 and 2 operation is:
1. Press the Talking Head switch on the steering wheel.
2. System responds with "After the Beep, please say "xxx"
3. Say your command and hope something happens.

If you get no response from the system (the systems "voice") when you press the Speech Button, something is wrong. Types 1 and 2 should respond. The fact that both you and Pfile get no response is worrisome. According to the Manual both types respond in the same manner - no difference in operation.

As you said my Type 1 has the Nav feature but you also said that this CPU was separate from the Telephone Voice system. From the manual there is no indication of this but there may still be separate components.

It may be useful to start a New Topic aimed at 2006 Package 6 owners and find out if this is something specific to your cars. If it is, Toyota will need to get involved.

Ed

 

good news... it does work, but only for the phone as far as i can tell. i need to go back and try some other modes and see if it responds, but if you are in the phone screen, and then press the speech button, it asks you to speak a number. you speak the number and then supposedly you can hit the 'off hook' button or the speech button to dial, but it never dialed for me unless i hit OK on the MFD.

 

Wynder, you probably already know the commands or saw this thread, but just in case there is any question about the new phone commands, they were touched on a little bit here:

http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=1...ndpost&p=171101

 

okay, i played with it some more.

here is how it works:

if you press the phone button on the steering wheel and then press the speech button, it asks you to speak a number.

if you go to the phone book screen, and then press the speech button, it asks you to speak a name. however, you have to record voice "tags" for each name you want to be able to speak. the voice tags are added on the 2nd page of the "edit phonebook entry" screen. it seems to reject one word tags when recording tags, so for "home" i had to say "home number."

when dialing by name, after you speak a name, it repeats the recorded voice tag back to you.

in either case, after you speak a name or number, the voice starts instructing you what to do next (either push the talk button or the off-hook button). if you do either of these things while she is still speaking, it just cancels out what you did. once she stops talking, then pressing the voice button will cause the system to tell you to say "dial", and then it will (finally) dial when you say dial. if you press the off-hook button, it will dial right away.

i also experimented with saying something else but "dial" and once it gave me the "next" entry in the phone book... it must have been the next one with a voice tag. i tried saying something else again to see if it would go to the next tagged entry, but it just started dialing.

with all the thrashing around as i was playing with it, the car and the phone got out of sync and no matter what i tried to dial it kept dialing the first number that i had tried. and then when i looked at my phone (treo650) it had dialed the first number twice, and it was on hold with the first call (!).

this is probably all RTFM, but there you go.