Really, really favorable review of Hey, Lucid...

[EZEVDriver]

Today, Green Car Reports posted perhaps the most favorable possible review of SoundHound's Hey Lucid and the transition from Amazon Alexa. Clearly, they didn't read this forum before printing the article. The only interesting thing is it does give some background to Lucid Motors' thinking behind the transition. Maybe we'll see improvements shortly?

 

[knewman]

I'd like to see metrics from auto manufacturers on the percentage of drivers who consistently use voice activation features. I don't know anyone who uses it, except the one time to see if it works.

Personally, I've always felt any voice activation system to be a step backwards in terms of user interface design. We went from command line interface, where the user had to know the specific command to enter, to graphic user interface where the options are visually presented to the user. With voice activated interface, we're back to having to know the specific command to enter. I suppose the promise of machine learning is to fill that gap of needing to know the command with contextual clues.

 

[Lucken]

I'd like to see metrics from auto manufacturers on the percentage of drivers who consistently use voice activation features. I don't know anyone who uses it, except the one time to see if it works.

Personally, I've always felt any voice activation system to be a step backwards in terms of user interface design. We went from command line interface, where the user had to know the specific command to enter, to graphic user interface where the options are visually presented to the user. With voice activated interface, we're back to having to know the specific command to enter. I suppose the promise of machine learning is to fill that gap of needing to know the command with contextual clues.

I actually use voice recognition for navigation destinations and phone calls. I don’t use it for anything else like car functions.

 

[DeaneG]

I'd like to see metrics from auto manufacturers on the percentage of drivers who consistently use voice activation features. I don't know anyone who uses it, except the one time to see if it works...

We use it all the time in our other EV - a Volvo with native Google Assistant (and soon Google's LLM machine). It works well.

 

[idiot900]

For me it’s helpful for selecting music (to the extent it can understand me pronouncing stylized artist names) and turning off navigation. I’d rather have it than not.

I once had a nice conversation with it about how I could drive to Iceland.

 

[scal_air]

Lol. OK I'll try to be fair and say Hey Lucid recognizes my words well and rarely misinterprets what I say.

However, I'm still amused by the "I'm listening" when no one is talking to you.
And integration into the Lucid car environment needs to improve. "Raise the rear sunscreen" is well with your capability despite the "I can't do that" response...

 

[Buffalo Bob]

Lol. OK I'll try to be fair and say Hey Lucid recognizes my words well and rarely misinterprets what I say.

However, I'm still amused by the "I'm listening" when no one is talking to you.
And integration into the Lucid car environment needs to improve. "Raise the rear sunscreen" is well with your capability despite the "I can't do that" response...

I think 'Hey, Lucid' recognizes that you are not taking it seriously, so it is deliberately screwing with you.

 

[hmp10]

I tried to use "Hey, Lucid" the other day to bring up the tire pressure readout, a reading that is not produced until you've driven the car a bit, and a nice way to avoid working through the menus while driving. It responded, saying access to that information was not available. Useless.

 

[illopp00]

I really need to see a good video demo walkthrough to understand and appreciate the capabilities. As of right now I have mine turned off, but I rarely have any use case in a any vehicle for talking to it hands free when I prefer to be listening to music. Maybe it can come up with a great playlist? Or using RAG in the backend thoroughly explain how to get the automatic seat heater setting to work...