STS Crappy Voice Recognition

[MARKVIII]

This was found in the edmunds website sts forum...

Cadillac says they are perplexed. My voice recognition system on the 2008 STS rarely recognizes my voice.

When I give it a proper command proper meaning its listed in the very-hard-to-understand manual, the system says "Pardon," I repeat the command and it says Pardon after repeating the same command again it says, "Command not recognized".

Entering a voice tag is even more stressful. If I am lucky enough to get the car to recognize when I say "Phone dial name" and it says Name Please"

I then say Bernies Cell and the system will respond Mary's Home, is this correct? I then say no and the system says Command not recognized.

I have a friend who is the local Ford Dealer. He teases me that a $18,000 Ford has a great VR system, while I paid over $50k for the Cadillac and the VR does not.

[dkozloski]

Maybe you talk funny.

[Lagging Larry]

I have an '05 STS, and the voice recognition system is pretty useless. And yeah, the dealer -- two of them -- said that the problem was with me, not with the car. I took it in 4 or 5 times, and finally gave up.

I stopped using it for safety reasons. I don't remember what command I was trying to enter, but it gave me a very unexpected result. I wound up switching the seat / mirrors / steering wheel from the settings for Driver 1 to those of Driver 2. Pretty unsettling when this happens while cruising down a California freeway

Looks like they haven't fixed the problem in three years. You'd think that they would build in some ability for the system to train itself to recognize how a person says certain words, and adapt itself accordingly.

Humm ... maybe there is a SYNC aftermarket adapter.