I really, really love my car which I've had now for two months. I love the looks. I love the mileage. I love how it drives. I love the many features...except one. Trying to set the nav destination through voice is impossible. Is it me, or is this feature really that bad? And if it is me, what is the trick?
Yup, one of the main cities I travel to refuses to be recognized and always gets interpreted as another similar sounding city name. I have tried every pronounciation I can think of and it won't work. Best bet I've found is to manually enter an address and favourite it with a distinctive name that the voice recognition can parse.
I love my Prius c Four too. But yep, the voice recognition in my Prius c Four is pretty much useless. Most of the time it isn't even close to what I said. I've had it try to take me to Puerto Rico from North Texas! How does it confuse Puerto Rico with Burleson, Texas?!? Also I hate the navigation systems difficult, if not impossible, way of adding way marks. It is better to just add several favorites, e.g., places A, B, C, then navigate to A. At A navigate to B. At B navigate to C. Otherwise the damn thing gets totally confused. Also, it does a terrible job of offering alternate routes. Most of the time it just offers the same damn route three times! Piece of junk, software wise, if you ask me.
how are you guys doing it over voice? don't use it like Siri.. as for adding way marks what is so impossible or system get confuse? Perhaps I can help you out here.
I miss Classic Mapquest. Though I still use Mapquest to print my maps and custom routes that I set. I can't stand voice recognition because I have important stuff to hear, and my voice isn't it
It was designed to be used with voice, but it does a terrible job. You should be able to tell it to navigate to a location, as long as you use the proper order of location information, but the darn thing is so slow that it gets stuck on your state. It almost always picks the wrong state or territory. As far as waypoints, yes I know how to enter them, but the system doesn't seem to know what to do with them. Say there are two major routes you could take to your destination--one northern and one southern. The system insists on using the northern route and does not even give you the option to choose the southern route. So to get the system to select the southern route you add a waypoint that is along the southern route. It sees the waypoint, takes you to that waypoint, then tries to take you all the way back to the northern route. This is annoying and stupid, not to mention it adds lots of mileage to the route! The system has a touchscreen, so why can't we simply touch the damn screen and say route through this point? Apparently the touchscreen only works for menu items and screen buttons painted in by the application. To be really useful it needs to work more like my iPhone/iPad in a mapping application.
