When does Yes mean Yes?

My B&M lady doesn't seem to understand "Yes"

She will repeat my instructions perfectly, so when I ask her for example to

"Call John mobile now"

she repeats my instruction

I then say Yes

She then repeats again and again each time I say Yes, she then offers the help option before reverting back to the ready status.

Anybody else have this problem? Is there a special way to say yes?

Am I actualy doing this correctly, is there another way to instruct the B&M to make a call?

Originally Posted by tourney

Am I actualy doing this correctly, is there another way to instruct the B&M to make a call?

try this:


say "call john mobile now"

when she says "are you sure?"


reply











"of course I'm sure you stupid ***** i know what the **** i'm saying!"


sorry.... I have no idea really.. but i couldn't resist..

Originally Posted by tourney

My B&M lady doesn't seem to understand "Yes"

She will repeat my instructions perfectly, so when I ask her for example to

"Call John mobile now"

she repeats my instruction

I then say Yes

She then repeats again and again each time I say Yes, she then offers the help option before reverting back to the ready status.

Anybody else have this problem? Is there a special way to say yes?

Am I actualy doing this correctly, is there another way to instruct the B&M to make a call?

Yep, I have this problem too.

Also a few other commands that 'she' doesn't hear from time to time.

I don't know what the answer is, other than asking for a new B&M unit to be fitted.

As I've said elsewhere the only way I can use B&M reliably is to always dial from the handset.

There are, of course, some questions to which women never (choose to) hear the reply....

Originally Posted by alf a

There are, of course, some questions to which women never (choose to) hear the reply....

At least your doesnt randomly call people like my dads does...

Originally Posted by baby278278

At least your doesnt randomly call people like my dads does...

Is that the blue&me or his woman...???

Thanks Guys

Lots too work with then, I shall get cracking...

God knows what the nieghbours will make of me sitting in the car shouting "You stupid b**ch can't you understand a simple word like yes" to which she will reply in her calming voice "Would you like help or to choose another command"

I shall be down the funny farm in no time at all me thinks!!!

It's the one word my B&M lady doesn't always understand either. Typical woman really.

I find that if I wait a full second and then say "yesss" in a rather fruity theatrical baritone she understands. My wife laughs a lot though.

Originally Posted by Stewart1

I find that if I wait a full second and then say "yesss" in a rather fruity theatrical baritone she understands. My wife laughs a lot though.

This is no joke...I had plenty of time today on the M6, M42 and M40 then all the way back again, so I decided to perform some vocal experiments.

I realise I have been sort of ordering her to do things, she being a she doesn't like that. So instead of YES I found that yesss softly spoken works every time.

Just got to stop her reading out names that do not in anyway resemble the name I pronounced now and she will be the perfect woman!!!

Lol glad you got it to work. Rather interesting to hear that even Alfa can make electronics have character

Originally Posted by tourney

Just got to stop her reading out names that do not in anyway resemble the name I pronounced now and she will be the perfect woman!!!

Well if you find a way let me know!

I'm sick of asking her to 'call Nikki' (my wife) and getting 'call.....mam.....mobile?'. Arrrggghhhh!!

Can't you train it to recognise your voice? My new phone has a training thing on it - better than me having to say "Grr-aunt" everytime I want to call Mr PG

My B&M lady can have trouble with "yes" too.

So, if you say "Call Home" for example and she says "Call Home Now?" you can just press the phone button on the left hand steering wheel button and it makes the call.

Mine seems okay.

It says "Port-abl" but it also understands "mo-beel".

It is quite a robust system for something that needs no "training".

And it understands "Oui" as well as "Ouais".

I've not been able to try B+M properly yet, because the phonebook doesn't seem to download from an iPhone with v2.0 software, so:

Do you have to have voice dialling set up on your phone, or does the B+M lady try to match what you've said to the text in your contacts list?

So if I say "Call Andy MacD" does she looks through my contacts list for a sequence of words that look like they'd sound like "Andy MacD"? Does that ever work?