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We tried the Kia Nero EV, and it's navigation voice, while having decent pronunciation, had such a weird rhythm and intonation when speaking that I had signific
by magicalhippo 2y ago
We tried the Kia Nero EV, and it's navigation voice, while having decent pronunciation, had such a weird rhythm and intonation when speaking that I had significant trouble understanding what it said.
I've never come across that with any artificial voice before.
And I'm fairly good at understanding both Swedish and Danish in addition to my native Norwegian, so used to variety.
The price drove us away, but had it been cheaper we'd likely not gotten it due to that poor voice, given the other options on the market. It just wasn't usable.
- kylebenzle 2y agoWow, I can't believe how far in the future we are living now that we are making car choices based on the vehicle's voice!
- magicalhippo 2y agoHeh yeah it's a bit weird. But when you're driving a new place in traffic, the voice guidance is a nice safety factor, not having to take your eyes off to look at the center console screen. We ended up with a Renault Megane e-Tech. In addition to having a much better voice system, being based on Android Automotive, it supports putting the map in the driver console, ie replacing the dials (speed reading gets overlaid of course). edit: I guess it also says something about how uniform these cars are, feature-wise. Few are radically different, so it quickly boils down to these minor features.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoSo far that everyone seem to be a russian bot devised you to make you doubt everything Even on boutique forum of HN