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32Operating Your Navigation System with Voice

To Ensure Safe Driving

CAUTION

For your safety, avoid viewing the screen in the voice operation as much as possible while driving.

If you use voice operation, select [English] in [Voice Language] of “Regional Settings”. If you select other languages, voice operation will not be available.

Basics of Voice Operation

Your Pioneer navigation system uses the latest in voice recognition technology. You can use voice commands to operate many of its func- tions. This chapter describes where you can use voice commands, and also what commands the system accepts.

pThis function is not available while the cata- loging of iPod is created.

Flow of voice operation

You can start voice operation any time even when the map screen is displayed or AV is op- erating. (Some operations are not available.) The basic steps of voice operations are as follows.

!Switch the screen to map screen or AV op- eration screen.

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!Press the button to activate voice oper- ations.

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!Speak a command into the microphone after the beep.

When the command is recognized, the na- vigation system displays next options on the screen, and pronounces it in some cases.

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!Repeat previous step as necessary.

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!The requested operation will be carried out.

pThe voice operation may not be operable for a minute after the navigation system has booted up.

pVoice operation will be activated 30 seconds after the map screen is displayed.

If the button does not respond, display the disclaimer screen and then touch [OK].

The map screen is displayed.

Starting voice operation

%Press the button when the map screen or the AV operation screen is dis- played.

The voice operation screen appears.

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