Voice recognition allows you to control functions in the car, e.g. radio and media, a connected mobile phone or your navigation systemApplicable only to cars fitted with Sensus Navigation. This article describes how to get started with using voice recognition.
The voice recognition system allows you to control certain infotainment and climate functions in your car by speaking. The system responds and also shows visual information in the driver display.
You can control selected elements of Volvo applications for media, radio, navigation, telephone, messages and climate. For example, you can set an address as your destination, play a song, call a contact from your phone book, have text messages read out to you or set the temperature in your car.
The voice recognition system
Briefly pressing the voice recognition button on the right-hand side of the steering wheel starts a dialogue. When you have pressed this button, you will hear a beep and the voice recognition symbol will be shown in the driver display.
This shows that the system has started to listen and you can now start to speak. As soon as you start to speak, recognition is trained to understand your voice; this takes a few seconds and you do not need to start voice training.
Speak at a natural pace and using a normal conversational tone. To make the system understand what you want, it is important to say – for example – the command "Go to" followed by an address. To drive to a specific address, use the command Go to[Address]. If you want to play back music by a certain artist, say, for example, "PlayMadonna".
To change the system volume, turn the volume knob when the voice is speaking. You can use other buttons while using voice recognition. However, other sound will be muted during dialogue with the system, which means that it is not possible to execute any functions linked with sound using the buttons.
For information on how to improve voice recognition, see Improve your use of voice recognition.
There are several ways in which to cancel voice recognition:
Voice recognition will also be cancelled if you do not respond when the system speaks. The system will ask for a response three times first, but if you do not then respond it will be cancelled automatically.
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