Voice MERCEDES-BENZ C-Class 2008 W204 Comand Manual

209 Voice Control
Troubleshooting
An address book entry without
a speaker-dependent voice tag
is not recognized.The names entered in the address
book do not sound sufficiently dif-
ferent, or are not pronounced as
they are written.Create a speaker-dependent voice tag (page 182).
or
Give the “List address book” command.
The system reads out the address book.
Press the ! button when the name you want is read out.
An address book entry with a
speaker-dependent voice tag is
not recognized.The sound of the voice tags in the
address book is not sufficiently dif-
ferent.The voice tags entered in the address book must sound as
different as possible, e.g. store the names White and Wright
as “Mr White office” and “Mr Wright John”.
or
Give the “List address book” command.
The system reads out the address book.
Press the ! button when the name you want is read out.
A station list entry is not recog-
nized.The voice tags for the stations in
the address book do not sound
sufficiently different.Save a speaker-dependent voice tag for the station
(
page 196).
or
Give the “List station list” command.
The system reads out the station list.
Press the ! button when the station you want is read
out.
The station is selected (
page 196).
ProblemPossible cause/consequenceSuggested solutions


210
If you are making speaker-de-
pendent voice tags, the system
prompts you to enter them sev-
eral times.The two voice tags differ from each
other.Say the voice tag with the same intonation both times.
ProblemPossible cause/consequenceSuggested solutions

211 Voice Control
Troubleshooting
Voice control has a comprehensive help
function to assist the user.
The voice control help function provides:

general information about how best to
operate voice control

a list of the possible commands
“Help voice control”
You can use the “Help voice control” com-
mand to obtain information about how
best to operate voice control.
“Help”
If you press the ! button and say the
command “Help”, you will receive help for
the application currently selected.
If you select the “Help” command during a
voice dialog, for example after the “Dial
number” command, you will receive help
explaining how the dialog continues.
You can also request the help function for
a specific system, for example with the
“Help phone” command.
If you have activated the help window, you
will see a selection of the possible com-
mands on the display (
page 167).
Help function

215 Technical terminology
PAL
(P
hase Alternating Line)
TV standard, widespread mainly in Eu-
rope.
PCM
(P
ulse Code Modulation)
Optional format for audio data on an
DVD-audio or DVD-video.
The audio data are provided in com-
pressed form, similar to ->MP3,
->MPEG1 Audio-Layer 3, but in contrast
are not subject to losses.
PDA
(P
ersonal Digital Assistant)
Small portable computer featuring
functions for managing dates, addres-
ses and appointments, for example.
PIN
(P
ersonal Identification Number)
Personal identification number, to be
entered to activate the telephone.
Provider
Service provider offering access to a
mobile phone network or services
within the network.RDS
(R
adio Data System)
Digital data transmission system for
FM radio stations.
Region code
Because of the region code, video
DVDs can only be played on DVD
equipment with the same code as that
of the ->DVD. The factory setting of the
COMAND is code 2 (

page 75). It can
only play video DVDs which also have
code 2 or code 0 (no region code).
Root directory
The uppermost directory on a data sto-
rage medium.
Scan rate (->MP3)
Indicates the frequency at which volta-
ge samples are taken during the con-
version of an analogue signal into a
digital signal. The analogue-to-digital
converter converts the samples into di-
gital signals.UDF
(U
niversal Disc Format)
Standard for recording data, e.g. for
DVDs.
vCard
An address book entry may contain up
to 8 telephone numbers that are placed
in a vCard (business card). When an
entry of this kind is stored in the mobile
phone’s telephone book, a separate
entry in the vCard is created there for
every telephone number.
Voice Control
A system which can be used to operate
the ->COMAND or the telephone using
speech.
WAV
Standard audio file format for storing
audio on PCs.
WMA
(W
indows® Media Audio)
A means of compressing audio data
which is subject to losses.

217 Index
A
AAC
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Address book
Changing entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Creating an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Deleting entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Details for an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Initiating phone call . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Searching for entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . . 109
Voice tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
CD mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
DVD mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Authorizing
Bluetooth
® device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Mobile phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Aux
Audio mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
B
Back button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Bit
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Bit rate
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Bit rate (MP3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Block Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Bluetooth®
Activating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Switching on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Bluetooth® interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Business cards
Receiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
C
CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 213
Ejecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ejecting from the DVD changer . . . . 57
Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Loading the DVD changer . . . . . . . . . 55
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 70
Selecting medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CD-R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
CD-RW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Character entry
Accepting first list entry . . . . . . . . . . 32
Cancelling an entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Deleting an entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Entering characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
COMAND
Basic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Character entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Display settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Opening menu for a main function . . 31
Operating example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Selecting menu item . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switching on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
COMAND controller
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
D
De-authorizing
Bluetooth
® device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Mobile phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Declaration of conformity regarding
the distribution of telecommunica-
tions equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Delete button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Destination input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Index

221 Index
Video
DVD mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Voice Control
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Volume
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting for navigation
announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting for telephone calls . . . . . . . . 35
W
WMA
Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215