Carplay text message to speech

ocbasbalburg · May 13, 2023

New 23 Silverado for me and trying to understand if this is an issue or a crappy feature. Infotainment displays I have a text, however when I press play, nothing happens. I assume it would play the text over the radio. If it doesn't, why even show this message. Talking to the dealership too, but looking for additional perspectives. Thanks.

Transient · May 13, 2023

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dieselfan1 · May 13, 2023

It's supposed to play the message.

If you want to respond it asks if you want to.

If you want to start a new message touch the circles under your name and say " text Samantha" and it will voice to text your message.

ocbasbalburg · May 13, 2023

Ha, nailed it. It was my son's idea to name the truck rooster after top gun.

ocbasbalburg · May 13, 2023

18 minutes ago, dieselfan1 said:

It's supposed to play the message.

If you want to respond it asks if you want to.

If you want to start a new message touch the circles under your name and say " text Samantha" and it will voice to text your message.

Thank you, that is what I assumed. Is there a button on the steering wheel I need to press for it to play? Or wouldn't pressing play on the screen work as well?

ocbasbalburg · May 13, 2023

There are two things that might help that I can't figure out.

1. I changed the default assistant to alexa when I set that up. I can hear text messages through android auto so I'm hoping to change the default assistant back to Google. Anyone know how to do that? I can't find the setting.

2. I might have to set up a trusted device. I have went into the mychevrolet app, but I can't find anything about trusted device.

dieselfan1 · May 14, 2023

The Rooster....

ocbasbalburg · May 15, 2023

8 hours ago, dieselfan1 said:

The Rooster....

@dieselfan1 What truck do you have that it works? 23 ltz high country in your profile?

Also what is your default assistant? I changed mine to alexa and I'm guessing that might be why it isn't working. But I can't figure out how to change it back.

The dealership is telling that it is normal not to play the message. Trying to gather some proof so they will take a look at it. Thanks.

repairman54 · May 15, 2023

Is it a regular phone text message or one through FB messenger? FB ones may not play.

ocbasbalburg · May 15, 2023

2 minutes ago, repairman54 said:

Is it a regular phone text message or one through FB messenger? FB ones may not play.

Regular text message

dieselfan1 · May 15, 2023

13 hours ago, ocbasbalburg said:

@dieselfan1 What truck do you have that it works? 23 ltz high country in your profile?

Also what is your default assistant? I changed mine to alexa and I'm guessing that might be why it isn't working. But I can't figure out how to change it back.

The dealership is telling that it is normal not to play the message. Trying to gather some proof so they will take a look at it. Thanks.

2023 High Country. I'm not using Alexa.

The dealer don't know much about these trucks and that's a fact.

I don't think Facebook messenger does this, only text messages.

ocbasbalburg · May 15, 2023

Thanks @dieselfan1.

I feel like I'm making progress slowly on this, but the feature is still not working. I disabled alexa so Google assistant is now the default. This caused a notification access screen to show up where I selected Google assistant to be active. However when looking at the Bluetooth connection, audio is unselected. I have tried to select it but it keeps automatically unselecting. Maybe this is my issue?

ocbasbalburg · May 16, 2023

Looks like playing text is now working. I believe that alexa may have been the culprit. I disabled alexa so Google assistant is now the default. This caused a notification access screen to show up where I selected Google assistant to be active. After that it seems to be working. I told the dealership as well and they were glad to hear.