zformation

The video is titled Audi MMI: External Device Voice Recognition

arU4ic

Interesting, this video tells you to hold the button down for 2 full seconds, but its clearly for A6/A7 but it doesn't work on my S3.

This really debunks AOAs answer that it's a safety thing that Siri doesn't work on the A3/S3 with MMI with Navigation - arg

desmillicious

Hey folks I have just found a "workaround" - if you hold down the apple home button to bring up Siri, then when it is active hit the "speak" button on the steering wheel the microphone turns on and will pass whatever you say through to Siri.

The downside is that it will also pass whatever you say through to the MMI speech recognition system. So you have to manually cancel that... but Siri works. Siri speech recognition is so much better for dialling contacts than the MMI, it's quite amazing how poor the Audi software is in comparison, but I guess they are in the market of making vehicles not digital interface systems.

I can only hope that I'll be able to software upgrade the MMI to the Carplay version they are releasing this year ... most likely will have to find a hacked software update to install as my guess is that Audi policy is not to run rolling software upgrades; even though they should! It's a market expectation now for digital interfaces to deploy rolling software upgrades... how do we petition Audi to get with the program!?

arU4ic

ADMIN please make this poster a "Hero" status member!!!

DUDE, this is like finding water on mars.

I tried this in my Daytona S3, no dice, but on my 'regular' 2015 S3 this worked!! I could even dictate texts... kick a$$.

Des, you really need to make this a new post, something like, "I rock and solved your life's issues with Siri and your A3/S3"

desmillicious

No problems! I'll make the new post, prob a good idea