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Model specific boards => Golf mk8 => Topic started by: MarkHowells on 17 September 2025, 17:44
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Just curious to see how many people use the voice and chat controls and how useful they find it?
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I only use it via android auto and through the waze app, it works brilliantly for that to search for destinations, far easier than typing it manually.
I'll have to be honest I'm not sure I've got it for anything else.
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If you mean the vw one... No it barely ever succeeds. I must actually remember to turn it off because it keeps popping up when I'm talking to passengers. It doesn't seem to understand "f*** off!" either
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In my previous mk8 it was not very good, and mostly didn’t work as you’d expect it to, but in my 8.5 it works fine, I don’t use it for much though, mostly to turn the heads up display on and off, or to change driving modes, sometimes use it to change temperature. Occasionally I ask it questions which it answers via ChatGPT, works as you’d expect on the whole.
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I think it works well. I use it all the time to change temperature and setting driving modes. The ChatGPT works well on a journey to find out about places. I wish I could find a list of all the commands that it will do but so far no luck. VW documentation falls somewhat short with "what noise does a cow make" Pity it will not turn off the lane assist and speed warnings though.
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Just curious to see how many people use the voice and chat controls and how useful they find it?
Use it a lot on my mk8 find it works very well tbh
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I use it just to control Siri.
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I have renamed mine to respond to "Hello Kitt" (I am hoping most of you are old enough to know who that is) and I asked it to tell me a joke. It said that it's developers did not teach it any jokes but it would give it a go. It then said that it had problems working out how to put the seatbelt on and then it just clicked.
My kind of joke, so it looks like I have a new friend.
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It looks like my car doesn't have the feature available via the native software. This feature not available or some similar message.
Was this an option on early Mk8s?
Anyway as I said it works via android auto on 3rd party apps such as google or waze so the work around is fine.
I just wondered if there is a way I can control the temperature settings via voice, more out of curiosity than anything else.
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You need the vw one to control anything on the car itself. The voice control was included on the early UK MK8's and then later was a paid for option... What reg is your car?
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You need the vw one to control anything on the car itself. The voice control was included on the early UK MK8's and then later was a paid for option... What reg is your car?
Mines a March 22 car and I'm sure you're correct, it was a paid for option.
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I just wondered if there is a way I can control the temperature settings via voice, more out of curiosity than anything else.
I used the free trial of voice but it doesn't work on the temperature or air-con settings, I found it only worked on volume, I have a MK8 Golf.
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I just wondered if there is a way I can control the temperature settings via voice, more out of curiosity than anything else.
I used the free trial of voice but it doesn't work on the temperature or air-con settings, I found it only worked on volume, I have a MK8 Golf.
I don't know if you can set a particular temp, but certainly you can say things like "I'm cold" or "my feet are cold" and it will turn it up and direct it where you tell it. And it knows if its the passenger or the driver saying it. It will also turn on the heated seats or steering wheel heater too.
TBH though its so sluggish to respond and often gets it wrong that its quicker to just reach the button and change it yourself...
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I just wondered if there is a way I can control the temperature settings via voice, more out of curiosity than anything else.
I used the free trial of voice but it doesn't work on the temperature or air-con settings, I found it only worked on volume, I have a MK8 Golf.
I don't know if you can set a particular temp, but certainly you can say things like "I'm cold" or "my feet are cold" and it will turn it up and direct it where you tell it. And it knows if its the passenger or the driver saying it. It will also turn on the heated seats or steering wheel heater too.
TBH though its so sluggish to respond and often gets it wrong that its quicker to just reach the button and change it yourself...
Mine just said something along the lines of "function unavailable" if I asked it to turn on air-con or change temperature etc.
At the time I found some info online which confirmed those functions wouldn't work on my car, that was probably 6 to 9 months ago though so it might have changed since because I now have options for Dynamic lighting and full beam assist on the VW shop.