E815/Mikbox Voice Recognition
12-01-2007, 01:04 PM
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E815/Mikbox Voice Recognition
My 01 E320 has a Mikbox installed, from the prior owner. I have an E815 cell connected to the cradle. Everything works fine, but I was wondering how to make the Voice Recognition work. Any idea's would be appreciated.
Tom
PS Love the car, my first, and the forums. Thanks for previous post answered, especially Skylaw, who is very informative.
Tom
PS Love the car, my first, and the forums. Thanks for previous post answered, especially Skylaw, who is very informative.
12-01-2007, 02:49 PM
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I believe you would have to activate the phone's internal voice recognition using the phone's own controls. With extreme luck, perhaps a button on the COMMAND unit will do that for you (but don't bet on it).
I had an MB voice recognition module that I used very successfully for voice dialing with my MikBox installation. It worked just as it did with the OE phone (except I had upgraded it to an '02 version, which also controlled much more than the one in my '00 did).
You can tell if you have a VRM by determining if you have the stalk on the upper right side of the steering column (see the phone bulletin for your car; http://home.earthlink.net/~phdwebsit..._bulletins.htm). If you have it, but don't still have the instruction manual, activate the lever and say "help" - it will give you the list of equipment that responds to voice, and then give you commands.
I had an MB voice recognition module that I used very successfully for voice dialing with my MikBox installation. It worked just as it did with the OE phone (except I had upgraded it to an '02 version, which also controlled much more than the one in my '00 did).
You can tell if you have a VRM by determining if you have the stalk on the upper right side of the steering column (see the phone bulletin for your car; http://home.earthlink.net/~phdwebsit..._bulletins.htm). If you have it, but don't still have the instruction manual, activate the lever and say "help" - it will give you the list of equipment that responds to voice, and then give you commands.
