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Today I visited my local BMW dealer parts department and bought the missing microphone for the headliner (remember, I don't have the phone kit installed in my 2001 M5), so I've now been able to play a bit with the voice recognition system.
If you just say "HELP," the system mentions that there are 3 help commands:
HELP NAVIGATON
HELP PHONE
HELP NOTEPAD
Unfortunately I can't seem to find reference to anything that works the stereo or DSP.
Below is a list of all the commands mentioned by the HELP commands:
Help NAVIGATION:
Route map
Navigation
Scale 400 feet
Scale 800 feet
Scale one quarter of a mile
Scale half a mile
Scale one mile
Scale two point five mile
Scale five mile
Scale ten mile
Scale twenty-five miles
Scale fifty miles
Hotels as current location
Parking lot as current location
Restaurant as current location
Gas station as current location
Hotels at destination
Parking lot at destination
Restaurant at destination
Gas station at destination
Save current position
New route
Instruction
Instruction off
Help PHONE:
Dial number
Dial name
Add name
Delete name
Play phonebook
Clear phonebook
Redial
Help NOTEPAD:
Record note
Play notepad
Clear notepad
Most of these are pretty straightforward to understand, but a few observations:
- The NAVIGATION command is lame in that you still get the legal disclaimer screen and have to push the knob to acknowledge "OK" to proceed.
- The Notepad-related commands will let you store multiple notes in the order in which you recorded them, sort of like a tape-based answering machine. CLEAR NOTEPAD wipes out all of the notes you've recorded.
- As you would expect without a phone kit installed, all of the PHONE commands are recognized, but then ask me to connect a phone.
- I haven't figured out what INSTRUCTION or INSTRUCTION OFF do. I suspect (hope?) that they are the key to really unlocking the functionality of the voice recognition module.
Has anyone figured out how the INSTRUCTION commands work? If not, I'll try experimenting with them some more in the next few days.
- Dave
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