Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2008 Owners Manual User Manual
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Control systems
Voice Control* troubleshooting
Problem
Possible cause/consequence
Suggested solution
Voice Control System does not recognize
commands.
You have not operated the system from the
driver’s seat.
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Operate the Voice Control System only
by the driver as the microphone is
geared to the driver side.
You have spoken unclearly, too loudly or
too quietly.
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Speak the commands in a continuous
manner using a normal tone.
A blower is set to the highest setting, vents
are pointed at microphones or wind noise is
being created through open windows.
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Avoid loud disturbances.
Voice Control System does not recognize a
address book entry.
The voice entries in the address book sound
too similar.
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When you create your address book en-
tries, select names with the greatest
possible acoustic differences: If for ex-
ample you have the names Smith and
Schmidt, choose for example “Smith
work” or “Schmidt John”.
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Speak the command “List phone book”.
The system reads out the address book
entry by entry.
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Press
! when the desired entry is
being read out.
The entry is selected and the corre-
sponding number is dialed
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