"Dial by name"

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mjg216 @ Feb 25 2007, 03:36 PM) [snapback]396317[/snapback]</div>

Dial by name
In my 2006 package #7,this is what I do to use voice dial:

* Press the talk switch on the steering wheel and say "dial by name"
* Jill says "Dial by name has been chosen. After the screen has updated please press the talk switch"
* Press the talk switch
* Jill says, "Please say the name"
* I say the name I have programmed to the number
* Jill says "Name chosen. Please briefly touch the talk switch or touch the off hook switch to dial"
* I press the off hook switch (telephone with receiver off the hook) and the call dials.

I hear the call dial, the person answers and I am good to go. I have dialed a name without touching the MFD, only the steering wheel.

The process is almost the same for dial by number, which I use to call a person that is not in my phonebook. There is one extra push of the talk switch, that seems like a glitch, but it still works.

When I have an incoming call, the radio cuts out, and I hear a generic ring through my car speakers, not my ring tone. Sometimes my phone will actually ring about a 1/2 a ring and then I hear the generic ring through the speakers. I haven't quite figured that one out yet.

You must have voice tags programmed to the numbers you have entered into the car's phonebook. If you have Verizon, you can't transfer your phone's phonebook, you will have to manually enter them one by one.

 

Couple things; you have your voice tags in your phone, and when you press the voice command switch on the steering wheel, you're really talking to the car and the car only - you're not activating anything about the phone at all.

The post above is totally correct, except the car doesn't use voice tags - it can recognize the name you're speaking, no pre-recording needed.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vagabond @ Feb 25 2007, 11:55 PM) [snapback]396541[/snapback]</div>

I had to record a name for each entry in the car. When Jill says "Williams chosen" it is my pre recorded voice that says williams

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Renocat @ Feb 26 2007, 12:19 PM) [snapback]396812[/snapback]</div>

Really? In the same voice the car uses and not the phone? Mine doesn't do that. But I have a 2005.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vagabond @ Feb 26 2007, 05:07 PM) [snapback]396874[/snapback]</div>

my (pre recorded on the voice tag) voice says "williams"
Jill(the car voice) says "chosen. Please briefly touch the talk switch or press the off hook switch to dial"

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vagabond @ Feb 26 2007, 05:07 PM) [snapback]396874[/snapback]</div>

The 2006 allows voice tags in the car for each phone book entry. Works like a charm.

Tom

 

I find if the car is parked the phone defaults to the say the number and you have to touch the screen to get dial by name. If I'm driving it seems to default to say the command and then I have the choice. A toggle would have been nice.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mjg216 @ Feb 25 2007, 12:36 PM) [snapback]396317[/snapback]</div>

You are not alone, this must be a bug in the 07. Mine doesn't respond to a mere press of the talk button, I must first push the off-hook dial button then the talk switch then Jill occasionally says, "please say a command" . Too often she skips to, "please say the number". Posters so far have either had the problem or don't but no real answers on how to fix it......


Does your's have navigation? Mine does not and I suspect the posters that have no issue with this also have the navigation unit.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gadgetdad @ Mar 4 2007, 10:12 AM) [snapback]399974[/snapback]</div>

On my 06 I must press the off hook button first to get the voice button to work. No nav.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(koa @ Mar 4 2007, 04:16 PM) [snapback]399988[/snapback]</div>

Must be the difference between nav and no nav. I have nav and just push the talk switch and say dial by name.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mjg216 @ Feb 25 2007, 03:36 PM) [snapback]396317[/snapback]</div>

We had this problem, just as you describe it,
with my wife's new 2007 Prius body type "C HB" (with nav).
We kept giving the prerecorded voice tag we'd attached to an existing number,
but the Prius would try to understand it as a number.

In the Owner's Manual the instructions
for
1) dial by spoken voice tag
and
2) dial by spoken phone number
are identical.

This suggests that the car uses context to decide.
They don't tell you what the context is, but
the picture preceeding 1) and the one preceeding 2) are different.
And yep, when we get the phone book screen showing,
then the name tag is taken as a name tag - not a number.

So the problem is that some cars apparently won't accept "dial by name"
when they should.

Maybe there is a way to make dial by name instead of dial by number the default
(like you can turn off the backup beeping).
Better not to have to poke the MFD when calling.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fnc38 @ Mar 10 2007, 11:20 PM) [snapback]403619[/snapback]</div>

All our tests were done not moving.
So, per koa's comment, we need to try this while moving.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Renocat @ Feb 26 2007, 02:19 PM) [snapback]396812[/snapback]</div>

Probably a silly question but you prerecord the voice tag in the car or phone? How do you do this in the car?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pjsluna @ Mar 21 2007, 12:41 PM) [snapback]409582[/snapback]</div>

As for voice dialing, add the desired number to your car phonebook, then press the "add voice tag" soft button on the MFD. I think it shows up on the second page of the phonebook entry. Jill will prompt you through adding the tag. She will give you a beep, then you say whatever you want to say to dial that number. If it is too short, she will complain and you will have to do it again. To dial using a voice tag, do the following, assuming you are not in the phone screen to start:

1) Press the voice command button.
2) After the prompt, say: "dial by name."
3) Jill will acknowledge dialing by name, and prompt you to say the tag.
4) After the beep, say the voice tag.
5) The system will play the matching voice tag, then Jill will prompt you to push the voice command button or the off-hook button.
6) Press the off-hook button to make the call. Press the voice command button if you want to redo or cancel.

Tom

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ Mar 21 2007, 10:08 AM) [snapback]409611[/snapback]</div>

Thank you Tom
I had not seen that key so will push more buttons to look for it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pjsluna @ Mar 21 2007, 02:05 PM) [snapback]409655[/snapback]</div>

It's on the steering wheel, right side, just above the phone buttons. It has a small sharp bump sticking up in the middle of it so you can find it without even looking.

- Another Tom

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tom_06 @ Mar 21 2007, 12:58 PM) [snapback]409727[/snapback]</div>

Got it...
I had seen the voice prompt button on the steering wheel but had not seen it on the phone book entires. I found that I did not realize that I could and therefore had not paged down to the voice tag screen....found it today...tagged things no problems (except it want longer names as someone hadmentioned).

Thnak you all

 

Hey,
I just got a 2007 with package #3 yesterday. I think I may have the same problem. I may have a solution, but I haven't tested it all that much. It seems to me that if I press the talk button when the speed dial screen is up, the system prompts for a command. If I press the talk button when the phone pad screen is up (the screen with the numbers) the system prompts for a number.

While the car is in motion, pressing the off-hook button should bring you to the speed dial screen because that is the only thing you are supposed to do while driving. I think the bug is that sometimes pressing the off-hook button while the car is in motion brings you to the phone pad screen rather than the speed dial screen.

Now I've only tried this twice, so I don't know how much of a solution this is. Can someone else with a 2007 Prius with package #3 give this a try and mess with it a bit to test my theory.

1) When on the phone pad screen, pressing the talk button prompts for number
2) When on speed dial screen, pressing the talk button prompts for command
3) When stationary, pressing the off-hook button, the screen displays the phone pad screen with all options available (e.i. phonebook, speed dial, settings etc.). Pressing the off-hook at this point in time, you are prompted for a number (which follows from point 1).
4) (This is where the potential bug is) When moving, pressing the off-hook button should a) bring you to the speed dial screen, but sometimes it B) brings you to the phone pad screen with only the speed dial option available (options such as phonebook and settings are grayed out/unavailable). If you just press the talk button under situation a, you are prompted for a command (which follows from point 1). If you press the talk button under situation b, you are prompted for a number (which follows from point 2). If, under situation b, you press the speed dial option on the screen and then press the talk button, you are prompted for a command (which follows from point 2).

So the bug is that you are sometimes brought to the wrong screen when you press the off-hook button while moving (the phone pad screen rather than the speed dial screen).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fnc38 @ Mar 11 2007, 01:02 AM) [snapback]403640[/snapback]</div>

Yes, while the car is in motion
we can call someone in our phonebook
without touching the MFD.


Us: Press the off-hook steering wheel button.

Prius: "please say a command"

Us: "dial by name"

Prius: Changes to the phone book screen
and will recognize a voice tag.