A year after it was announced, Waze is finally rolling out support for reporting hazards using your voice in its new “Conversational Reporting” feature.
In one of its only notable AI pushes, Waze announced last October that it would launch “Conversational Reporting” as a way to report road hazards through your voice. The feature would leverage natural language to report hazards such as objects on the road, construction, speed traps, and more.
Waze explained:
Say you’re cruising down the highway and spot a sudden slowdown. All you need to do is tap the reporting button and speak naturally, as if you’re chatting with a friend: “Looks like there are cars jammed up ahead!” With the help of Gemini capabilities, Waze will understand what you’re saying and quickly add a real-time report to the map for you — no need to use a specific voice command or tap extra buttons.
For the ability to use simpler voice commands alone, this has been a welcome addition as the prior system was through Google Assistant. But, this new system has only been available in a limited beta over the past year.
Now, it’s finally rolling out more broadly.
Over the past week, Waze has been rolling out “Conversational Reporting” to users. The feature works as promised, with users able to explain the road hazard with their voice, and Waze then using AI to choose the correct reporting option with no further button presses needed.
For some users, though, Waze has been a bit too forward about the feature’s arrival, with a pop-up appearing to notify users of the ability, but the pop-up reappears frequently if users don’t turn it on. Another bug seems to cause media playback to stop and not restart after using the feature.
Hopefully, those errors will be ironed out with time.
Have you tried out “Conversational Reporting” in Waze?
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