BYD Voice Commands: control car functions by voice with BYD Assistant

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Ай бұрын

BYD Assistant is BYD's voice user interface on BYD Seal, Atto 3, Dolphin and other BYD electric cars. With BYD Assistant, you can control dozens of functions with voice - without touching the screen or having to navigate your way through the menus. Voice commands make it easier to keep the full attention on the traffic. In this video I review the BYD Assistant functionality and share my view on its potential as well as areas for improvement.

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@davidmacbeth5575 Ай бұрын

One of the fun commands I stumbled across was "Hi BYD....My bum is hot" "OK....Turning on Seat Ventilation"😊

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Nice one! I'm sure there are many more to discover, it is actually a kind of a "easter egg" to find (as it's not documented anywhere)

@user-wz8hp2ix9f Ай бұрын

Most car reviewers complain about lack of physical buttons. Almost none of them have a clue of modern voice assistants. I for one prefer use voice assistants, with a button on the steering wheel, over reaching to buttons.

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Very good point. Focus is currently all on touch vs. physical buttons discussion. I suspect that voice assistants will make a big leap forward when they integrate more versatile conversational AI into them, probably happening within a year already. But already now BYD Assistant is a pretty nice feature and with plenty of untapped potential.

@JerryEBernard Ай бұрын

And thank you for your tutorial. Surely will help me with my new ATTO 3.

@grandtourerpt Ай бұрын

Dude, your videos are over the top! I love it. Great video, I hate voice controls with a passion, but they can be useful when driving for GPS navigation

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

thanks! nice to hear you liked it

@andersjrgensen7606 Ай бұрын

Regarding steering wheel heating - you can just say “my hands are cold”. As well as you can say “my ass is cold” for seat heating.

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Awesome!

@SWR112 Ай бұрын

You put chat GP in these cars and we will be having conversations on the way to places. Cars will communicate with each other maybe a BYD twenty miles ahead telling your car there has been a accident, heavy rain, traffic jam, debris on the road. It still looks very basic but the fact it understands what your saying is impressive. But let’s never forget by the time you have said the command you’d have done it with a knob or button within seconds.

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

The idea of generative AI -enabled voice assistant is a fascinating one, and probably will soon be reality. Current BYD Assistant is still relatively simple compared to the conversational capabilities of ChatGPT or similar services. Just out of curiosity, what kind of discussions would you (everyone) have with a ChatGPT type of voice assistant in the car? What would you ask from it, how would you use it?

@vasil7410 Ай бұрын

Thanks for a great video. Fortunately, I like my mother in law, so wont need the ejector seat command 😉

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

You never know, it may come handy one day... 😅

@ajncor Ай бұрын

Hi, I liked very much your video. It was very fun that humour about mother-in-law. I would like to ask you something about the colour of the car, if I may. Do you have or do know any link of a video showing the combination of the exterior "Atlantis Grey" colour with the interior "Ice Blue" colour? I'm curious to see how does it blend together. In my country, except the "Ice Blue" which is standard, all the other exterior colours like "Atlantis Grey", "Polar White", "Space Black", "Indigo Grey" and the "Shadow Green" have an extra cost, which I find hard to understand since in some countries most of them came from standard among with the "Ice Blue", By the way, which version of the software is your's infortainment car? Thank you, keep posting. All the best.

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I have the Atlantis Grey + Tahiti Blue, which I think looks fantastic. On my videos there isn't much content (yet) which focused on the appearance of this combination, but I could consider adding some footage like that. I need to double check the infotainment version but I believe I'm still on 23XX and not yet 24XX as the OTA updates haven't yet started here in Finland, as far as I know.

@michaelwilmshurst1579 Ай бұрын

Also trying to trying to add a custom wallpaper and can only get the ones provided by BYD, is there a walkthrough on how to do this?

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Sure, in the app menu there is a folder called "Utility tools", select "File Manager" from there and then the data source where your wallpaper image file is located (usb, sd). When you open the image file it gives you the option to add image as a wallpaper. I could perhaps make a brief video of this + related settings.

@michaelwilmshurst1579 Ай бұрын

@@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Sweet thank you

@valentijn383 Ай бұрын

Can you share your wallpaper, it is really great!

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

@@valentijn383 Great to hear, I'll make it available for subscribers to download, but it requires a bit of finetuning first.

@valentijn383 Ай бұрын

Sounds great, looking forward to it!

@PacalBande Ай бұрын

I really like the screen wallpaper, where can I download it? Thank you

@michaelwilmshurst1579 Ай бұрын

I'd like to get a copy too.

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I could make it available for download somewhere, perhaps with some alternative wallpaper designs included.

@jpataca5598 Ай бұрын

Hi does your nfc card unlock the car after its been parked and locked for over half and hour?

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

It does, though I've only used it a few times so far. The card needs to be in the exact right location, it's quite picky on that.

@michaelwilmshurst1579 Ай бұрын

@@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Incase you don't know. Don't sit it on the wireless charger. Kills the card. I found out the hard way

@lokeshmarkundhi7050 Ай бұрын

so, the new BYD atto 3 (2024) has seat ventilation???

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Not sure about that. The Seal has it, hopefully Atto 3 will too.

@jasonyannuccelli2499 17 күн бұрын

Is there a way to change the “Hi BYD” to…. “Name of my choice” ? Thank you

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu 15 күн бұрын

I am afraid not. This would be a great customization option, but I guess the effective hot word detection requires quite a bit of effort from the software, so not so straightforward to change it.

@jasonyannuccelli2499 14 күн бұрын

@@ElectricSeal-bq5wuok. Thanks for taking the time to reply 🙏

@JerryEBernard Ай бұрын

Hi there, I like your opening song. May I know the title 😂😂😂

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Thanks! The song is part of the Electric Seal soundtrack and is called just "Voice Command".

@user-rw1kv8mj7i Ай бұрын

Next time, please try these, "Hi BYD....open the airbag"，"Hi BYD....open seat ejection"，"Hi BYD....open the battery self destruct program" 😜

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu Ай бұрын

Tried the seat ejection already 😁 For the battery one, I susoect it would just calmly state that ”sorry - this is Blade LFP”

@eclockren7144 22 күн бұрын

Good news and bad news: the voice control of BYD is relatively worse among Chinese EV makers. For example, Xpeng has far better voice control than this, you don't even need to say the activate prompt and the car will detect the meaningful command automatically.

@ElectricSeal-bq5wu 22 күн бұрын

That’s interesting. Of course something like that can be perceived both as a benefit or a drawback…e.g. myself, I like the voice assistant feature, but also like to be clearly in control to activate it or not. So too proactive or automatic approach is not necessarily better, in my opinion. But surely this is an area that almost all manufacturers are looking into or considering. E.g. Alfa Romeo just releaded their first EV and quite visibly promote the ChatGPT-enabled voice assistant.