Ford B-Max Owner's Manual page 225

Issue
The SYNC voice Foreign names are
control system spoken using the
is having trouble currently selected
recognising language for SYNC.
foreign tracks,
artists, albums,
genres and
playlist names
from my USB
media player or
USB flash drive.
Voice prompts The SYNC system uses
are electronic- text-to-speech voice
ally generated, prompt technology.
and the pronun-
ciation of some
words may not
be accurate for
my language.
My previous The focus of SYNC is
bluetooth voice controlling your mobile
control system devices and the content
allowed me to stored on your devices.
control the
radio, CD, and
climate control
systems. Why
can I not control
these systems
with SYNC?
SYNC
Voice Command Issues
Possible Cause
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Possible Solution
The SYNC system applies the phonetic
pronunciation rules of the selected
language to the names stored on your USB
media player or USB flash drive. The system
is able to make some exceptions for very
popular artist names (e.g. U2) such that
you can always use the English pronunci-
ation for these artists.
The system uses a synthetically-generated
voice rather than pre-recorded human
voice.
SYNC offers several new voice control
features for a wide range of languages.
Dialling a contact name directly from the
phonebook without pre-recording (e.g. "call
John Smith") or selecting a track, artist,
album, genre or playlist directly from your
USB media player (e.g." play artist
Madonna).
SYNC offers significant capability above
and beyond the previous system such as.
Dialling a contact name directly from the
phonebook without pre-recording (e.g. "call
John Smith") or selecting a track, artist,
album, genre or playlist directly from your
USB media player (e.g." play artist
Madonna).