VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2003 Owners Manual

3.2 Volk swagen Telematics by
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sys tem statu s light . . . . .
serv ices button
butt on) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
e m erge nc y butto n . . . . . 8
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service s and activ a ri on.
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Booklet 3.2 Volkswagen Telematics by
button, you are connected to an OnStar
Advisor.
F ig. 3 services button (blue
the blue [
fig. 3 and you are connec ted
to an Advisor.
You will hear a chime,
or Volkswagen
Telematics by
then generates a sequence of tones during
the connection proce ss. T he proce ss
press the munication button.
normal connection tim e is seconds.
unusu al circumstan ces, it may take as long as
2
-3 minutes to connect.
c ient tim e to mak e th e
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emergency button
fig. 4 to connect with
an Adv is or.
call w ill be g ive n the hi ghest prior ity,
and yo u will hea r a ton e followed b y the
word s onnectin g to E m ergency>.
Th e Adv i
sor w ill attempt to locate your
hi cle, find out w hat kin d of a ss ista n ce you re- quire,
a
nd contact th e nearest emerge ncy
services prov id er who ca n di spatch lance , fire , police or other emerg en cy vices.
If yo u made an unintenti onal emergency call,
yo u
can cancel it by p ressin g the
Even if your posit ional data was
mitted, the re is no g uarantee that your
hicl e can always be located.
If the sys te m is page 3
o r if sat ellite reception is interrupted ,
matic ve hicl e location may be int erfe red with
or may even b e unavailable.
Center could have diffi cult y identifyin g your current
tion. The last valid posi tion obtai ned b efore the obs tru ction is re ta in ed , however, a nd can
be sent. The Adv is o r m ay depend on
yo u
to provid e ve rba l informatio n rega rding
your vehicl
es location if such an ob stru cti o n
of th e satellites occurs.
8 OnStar and

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button
Press the fig. 5
at th e end of a call. You'll hear the
words
Request Ended>.
Press this button to answer an
coming personal call, or cancel a
call if
one of the other buttons is
The volum e control knob on
Turn the volume
knob to co ntrol the volume.
equipped with the
acti vity.
JJ m od els only
ca n turn down the Nav igatio n Sys te m's audio
p rompts duri ng calls by enterin g th e
Nav iga tio n Sys tem's menu and adjustin g t he
Nav iga tion

Booklet 3 .2 Volk swagen Te lemati cs by
The system status light displays the status of the System .
Fig. 6 System status light
The syste m statu s fig . 6 located
between the button th e Em ergency
b u u
on. will take
sys te m in the vehicl e is
p
ower e d and ready to make calls o r re ­
ceive call s from th e Cente r. T he
sys te m sta tu s lig ht w
ill re main green even in
areas w ith out cellular covera ge.
Memo recorder
sys tem is equi pp ed wit h a m em o
r e
corder s tore informatio n give n t o yo u durin g call wi th A d visor or the
m od els o nly
yo u notice
thi s lig h t blinkin g while yo u are not on a call,
p re
ss the button.
Re d
T hi s s ig nal s your system may nor be func tioning properly. the blue
Adv isor.
the connection is made, the Adv isor will as­
sis t you making sure your system is operatin g properly.
you canno t contact th e
de a ler for diagnosis and service.
the sys te m sta tu s lig ht does no t illuminate,
the
Virtua l can play back
th e s to re d aud io information at a later time, wh en yo u arc no longer connec ted to
and P e rso nal

The memo recorder has th e ca pacit y to
record up to
seco nds of audio.
Starts recording
-the I button
fig. 7 The system beeps sev­
eral
times , followed by a
bee p .
Ends recording
-[
befo re recordi ng
s tart s.
-fig. 8
response: .
-
the command Memo,
response:

Booklet 3 .2 Volk swagen T elemotic s by
the
the page 11,
fig. 8
th e command Memo,
response:
the comman d
starts memo playback from begin­
ning,
or
-t h e command R esume,
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sp ee c h reco gnition syste m s use
s p
eech tech n ology that i s designed to under­
stand a w ide ra n ge of speake rs o f A m erican
E nglis h . Ho weve r, th e technology does not
work e qually well ac ross all regio nal a nd
e
thnic acce nts.
Alth ou gh th ere is no o n e
w ho do not ob ta in
good results are a dvis
ed to try th e tip s and
w orka ro u nd s fo un d i n this doc u m ent .
Pe rs o nal
V irt ual Advi so r5
l
u se s a s peech recog ­
nitio n sys te m that re sides in the v ehi cle.
W hen th e user pres ses the
Advisor:
Ad viso r by re que sting it th rough an Pe rso nal command. T he user
i s th
en tra nsfe rre d to the Virt ual A d visor
co mpute r and commun ica tes throu gh th e
w ireless
connection.
may get bett er re­
sults at lowe r speeds.
S l m odel s only
A n open window or an open sunroof allows more no ise to e nte r th e ve hicl e.
will get better results if all occ u­pant s of the ve hicle are q uiet, w hile th e
sys te m i s
listening fo r commands.
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by
When to speck
In
tening for commands for a few seconds be­
tw
een information/entert ainment seg ments.
How to speck
for cefu lly and clearly. The sys te m has
been optimized for the drive r. T he nois ier the
What to say
environment, the loud er yo u nee d to speak. If
you are in the
drive r's seat, sp eak facing the
front of the car. If yo u are a passenger, speak
f
aci ng th e rear view mirro r.
yo ur speec h
i s di st
orted by shouting or frustration , this
m ay cau
se more error s.
Indiv iduals with
high-pitched voices m ay
hav e b
etter result s by speak ing in a d eeper,
low er-p itch ed vo ice. Howeve
r. do no t lower
th e of the vo ice.
Avoid speaking with a risi ng intonation,
The commands for Personal Calling and the Virtual Advisor are
differe nt.
OnStor
commands are one
for one wo rd at a tim e. There are some
excep tions, two-wo rd phrases that a re
s p oken
and unders tood as a word, e.g.
Virtua l Advisor 7l, Voice Feedback, a nd My Number.
You ca n phone numbers o ne digit
a t a tim e, a
nd the syste m repeats each digit as
it hears it.
m ode ls onl y
m ode ls only
For sa y Help at th e Heady prompt to
h ea r th e
list com­
m an d s.
Advisor: sente nces
Virtual Ad visor can unde rs ta nd senten ce s
with more
than one word . It expects to
hea r a four -di git numbe r all at once w he n it
asks for your
For example, say What are my ch oices? to
h ea r a list of command s th at the Virt ual A d­
v iso r
unders tands.
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