E91 voice control...a plea for help...

[Hard-Drive]

Now, after some extensive research this afternoon I have been able to find the exact Fraulien that BMW put behind my dashboard to give my satnav and telephone instructions...



I know it's her becasue she's always got her bloody stien to her mouth when she's supposed to be giving me instructions...I know she's thinking "just ze vun more gulp and as long az he hitz ze anchors very hard we should juzt about make zis turning"

Problem is, when it comes to voice control, we're just not getting on. She just doesn't understand me, I can't tell if we just need some more time together and she'll start to know what I'm feeling, or if she's just being bloody minded. Perhaps I should just say "yes dear" and try her, you know, in a week's time, or perhaps leave a nice bunch of flowers or a Bratwurst in the glovebox for her. Perhaps she dissaproves of my lack of oompa music on the iPod, but however you look at it, we've got to spend the next three years together and I cannot put up with her just saying "pleaze repeat" and "canzelling" to me and nothing else.

Can anyone give me some relationship tips please on how we might hit it off? She has a very sexy voice, I'd say Oxford educated but with that Bavarian twang still there and I could talk to her all day but things are so one sided at the moment.

And I wish she'd put that sodding stien down and dip my lights at night a bit quicker..."high beam assist"? Whatever love...

Help...

[RacerMDR]

I feel your pain..........I don't like the voice - do you know if you can change it?

I get around it sometimes by trying to say the menu above first.......so things like

1. "Telephone"
2. "Call Name"
3. "RacerMDR"

as oppose to

1. "Call RacerMDR"

You're probably already doing that - so i'll shut up

[Hard-Drive]

Nope, I get as far as

"Telephone"

(sips stien)

"TELEPHONE"

(Pleasze repeat)

"TEL-EE-FONE"

(Please repeat)

"TEL. E. PHONE"

(Canszelling)

...sips stien...

[RacerMDR]

Hard-Drive said:

Nope, I get as far as

"Telephone"

(sips stien)

"TELEPHONE"

(Pleasze repeat)

"TEL-EE-FONE"

(Please repeat)

"TEL. E. PHONE"

(Canszelling)

...sips stien...

sounds like it doesn't recognise your accent - i'm a Geordie and I can get further......what's that about?!

[scoobytc]

RacerMDR said:

I feel your pain..........I don't like the voice - do you know if you can change it?

I get around it sometimes by trying to say the menu above first.......so things like

1. "Telephone"
2. "Call Name"
3. "RacerMDR"

as oppose to

1. "Call RacerMDR"

You're probably already doing that - so i'll shut up

Mine works fine as long as i do the above.I assume you are waiting for the beep before saying what you want

[Gunk]

I never use mine, it's just an annoying gimmick, most of the numbers I call are in the last dialed numbers menu.

[Magnus Barelegs]

I only use mine for changing the entertainment.
It works fine when saying "USB" and complicated band names.
But the phone function is crap, it just will not recognise people's names.
How can it recognise complicated band names, but not normal people's names?
Weird.