Voice commands are often not understood

[qck]

I'd like to know if others have the same problem with using voice commands. Some days my CX-9 does quite well with many of the commands and other days it seems like it cannot understand any of them I say. I would love feedback on how well your vehicle does with them good or bad.

 

[Purpleorchid]

When I tried to say "Enter destination", the NAV came back and said "Now showing Japanese Restaurants". Note - I still need to do that voice training for it, so that may be why.

 

[Antonio DiMarco]

Voice training...that is all.

 

[qck]

The only voice training avialable is for Bluetooth if I'm not mistaken, and I have done it twice now to try to improve the situation with no noticable improvement. The Bluetooth phone commands do work better for me btw.

 

[table5511]

have you tried learning russian?

 

[qck]

I have no desire to learn Russian, I'd just like some feedback from other people on how their vehicle does with voice commands.

 

[unforgiven]

I've had my CX-9 for three years and it has always been terrible so never used it much. I did the voice training also and it's ok with making phone calls but Navigation commands are horrible.

 

[ceric]

Voice recognition is at its worst when the A/C is blowing hard and road noise interferes.
Not an excuse for Mazda. The voice recognition system is very bad compared to Google Voice
on my cell phone. Therefore, I rarely used the voice recog capability at all.
Button pusher, here, except for the phone calls.

 

[qck]

Thanks for the feedback, at least I know it is not just me that has this problem. I noticed too that with the AC blowing on hi that it is even harder for it to recognize what you have requested. I love my CX-9, it handles the road extreamly well, I'm just disappointed in this voice command feature that does not work well at all.

 

[Shaft333]

I find the voice recognition lacking as well. It works good for the phone but terrible for the nav. If it does think it understands a command it seems to default to turning on some random POI.
The most unique time was while trying to find the nearest hospital it asked if I wanted to change the language to Spanish.

 

[waynesworldtx]

Glad to know it is not just me that is having problems with nav voice recognition on my 2011 GT. Very frustrating. Has anyone come up with a solution ?

Thanks,

 

[table5511]

 

[ceric]

You might want to check the microphone volume level just to be sure.

 

[Lindyrect]

Voice commands work worse than before when making phone calls after the training. It hardly get the numbers right anymore when voice dialing.