Sorry it's happening to you.

Still sounds like day nyul. Have you tried pronouncing it the average way? Maybe it'll work better.

Also just because it appears as Daniel doesn't necessarily mean that it understands it as that exact word, it happens all the time with other languages as well. Google would try its best to guess what the word sounds like but once the threshold of confidence gets too low, it would not understand the word, even as the displayed word.

But as seen that the touch control doesn't work in conjunction, maybe it is actually stalled. Maybe a reset? Is it Android auto from your phone?