The most obvious difference between my model and this one was the presence of a picture of a microphone. This is apparently for 'voice recognition'. I thought that sounded like a cool feature so when we got off the ferry in Calais I decided to give it a go.
The first thing I noted was that you have to touch the screen to tell it to listen to your voice. I once had a similar thing with voice activated lights in my bedroom. You pushed a button which told the computer to listen for a command, then you said 'lights on' and the lights switched on. After using the system for a while I improved on it slightly by removing the need for the voice command - I just pushed a button and the lights turned on. Magic!
So, I touched the pic of the microphone and the screen changed and told me it was waiting for a voice command. I took a wild guess and said:
"Brussels airport"
TomTom (I'll call him Tom for short) said:
"Go home?"
I said "no" and it returned to the prompt screen. I said:
"Go to Brussels airport"
Tom said "Go to brightness menu?"
I said "No". He prompted me again...
"Go to brussels, belgium"
"Photo muscles well Jim?" (he didn't say exactly that, but whatever he said it wasn't what I was after)
"&*($(*& NO"
I began to wonder if he was taking the piss. I tried:
"Navigate to Brussels Airport"
He came back with "Navigate to address?"
I figured that was the closest I was going to get. I said "Yes" expecting to be asked what the address was.
Tom had a bit of a think then decided to bring up the 'navigate to address' screen where I was asked for my desired destination....
...and presented with a keyboard to enter it .
Voice command my ass.
J
