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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by colordrops on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:38PM (#35256079)
As an owner it works great. Windshield wipers have a sensor for automatic control, and if you want to manually adjust, voice recognition is highly accurate these days. I switch between my Prius and Tesla all the time as my wife shares the vehicles, and I much prefer the Tesla controls. But I'll get off of your lawn if you'd like.
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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by wlesieutre on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:04PM (#35256292)
Anecdotally the owner I’ve asked about it said it sucks. And he’s a Native American English speaker. How’s it do with accents?

Maybe it’s been improved with hardware upgrades? His is around a 2017 I think.

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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by judge2020 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:47PM (#35256573)
An update came out around November of last year that vastly improved auto high-beams, and somewhat improved automatic windshield wiper performance.
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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by wlesieutre on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:32AM (#35256863)
I mean the voice control features specifically. Didn’t hear anything about the auto high beams and wipers which could imply they worked better than the voice recognition.
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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by colordrops on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @02:12AM (#35257434)
I'm a native speaker, maybe I have good enunciation. I'm amazed at how accurate the voice recognition is. It almost never makes a mistake, even with obscure location names. It displays on the screen what it thinks you said and even updates it as more heavy duty ML requests come back with better results.
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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by orthoxerox on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:57AM (#35258860)
I imagine it works as well as the famous voice-activated elevator in Scotland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8

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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by cyberax on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:58PM (#35256639)
I'm usually listening to audiobooks. Right now Tesla doesn't support any audiobook reader, so voice commands momentarily mute the book without pausing.

Next issue is the quality of voice recognition. It just sucks.

Oh, and wipers are a pure fucking BS in Teslas. They removed a $5 infrared precipitation sensor, and it STILL doesn't work well.

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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by davchana on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:01AM (#35257729)
I don't own Tesla, I have a strong Punjabi Accent when i speak English. Many bigger companies phone trees based on voice "commands" are useless for me. It never understands me. My Ford Sync voice controls too struggle to understand me. I prefer buttons.
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Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars by selimthegrim on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:47AM (#35260930)
Like Zail Singh with Reagan, you will just have to teach it Punjabi :)
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