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Old Sep 20, 2015 | 08:24 PM
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I have a South African built C250 built this year, it has the Audio20 system with a Garmin Nav card. When I push the steering wheel voice control button the system goes to the navigation screen and gives me a message saying that it doesn't support this language even though I have selected English in the Garmin settings, any suggestions?
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Old Sep 20, 2015 | 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Gregntita
I have a South African built C250 built this year, it has the Audio20 system with a Garmin Nav card. When I push the steering wheel voice control button the system goes to the navigation screen and gives me a message saying that it doesn't support this language even though I have selected English in the Garmin settings, any suggestions?
I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that with that system, you have to add the voice recognition option, which is $250 on top of the Audio 20/Garmin Nav system for you to be able to push the steering wheel button and have it recognize your voice (regardless of language).
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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 01:11 AM
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Thanks rbrylaw for the reply
It would have been better if the salesman had told me what won't work rather than what will, I'll see if I can get this retrofitted
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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 06:06 AM
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What is the code for Voice recognition, can't seem to find it in the price list (Swedish)?
I have the same problem and would like to get it working, could the voice control be a software "add-on"?
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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 09:10 AM
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Thanks rbrylaw for the reply
It would have been better if the salesman had told me what won't work rather than what will, I'll see if I can get this retrofitted
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What is the code for Voice recognition, can't seem to find it in the price list (Swedish)?
I have the same problem and would like to get it working, could the voice control be a software "add-on"?
You'll both likely need to speak with your dealer to get the right answer on this. But at least for the 2015 model year, voice activation for that system was a separate option for about $250.
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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 11:12 AM
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2015 here, same issue...wasn't informed that it was extra feature. With that said, even if I was I wouldn't have payed extra for it. Had it in my old car and used it maybe twice :p
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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 03:37 PM
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Hi i have a 250 4matic estate delivered may 2015 french spec built in bremen. It is the executive line with audio 20 and garmin sat nav. The voice activation works but not for all functions. So i can search recent locations and poi but i cannot search specific towns roads etc........the reason being the language is not supported. So it can search english instructions but cannot cope with french place names. I suspect voice recognition only supports english.......it was not an optional extra to have voice activation on the french spec.
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Old Sep 22, 2015 | 06:39 AM
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Have a cell phone? If you're too busy to type in an address, just use google maps. Their voice recognition is 10000000x better than the crap in my C400
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I changed the system language to English and than the voice control started to work. It is not enough to just change the Language on the NAV. But I guess I prefer to have the car in Swedish and be without voice control. Maybe a future update will give me both, or enable to just have the NAV in English. Will report back to the dealer to see what they say.
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