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Old 05-13-2008, 05:06 AM
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Default Re: Bluetooth, Use Phone Voice Commands

You can access the car's voice commands, but not your phone's voice commands.
Many (most? all?) Blue Tooth devices do not support voice commands. Wired headsets do, but not wireless ones.
The car can store up to 20 (not sure, I never counted) separate voice dials as well as 6 speed dials (buttons on radio in non-NAV, not sure about the NAV).
It works with varying degrees of success (many complaints here), but if you speak slowly and clearly and use words that don't sound similar (use "Car", "Cell", "Mobile", rather than three entries with the word "car") and try to vary the sound of the names (use "James" and "Timothy", rather than "Jim" and "Tim") you should have no problems.
I use it occassionally, when I speak the name exactly the way I entered it in the system, it works perfectly.
However, voice number dialing is a nightmare, don't bother!

As a work around, you can hold the phone to your mouth and enter the voice command to initiate the call and then the car's Bluetooth system should pick up the call. That is probably the easiest workaround (just don't let a police officer see you hold the phone!)


Did a Google search and found this
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Bluetooth Headset Support: Voice Command does not support using a Bluetooth headset to initiate a voice command but you can use a Bluetooth headset during the phone conversation.
Please see the New Owner's FAQ in my signature.

Last edited by haroldo : 05-13-2008 at 06:24 AM.
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