Lancia THESIS CONNECT Owner's Manual page 104

VOICE COMMANDS
Voice commands are extremely im-
portant to improve safety when trav-
elling since they enable to control cer-
tain secondary (but frequently used)
functions such as changing the audio
source (e.g from a CD to a tape) or
making a call - without using your
hands or taking your eyes off the
road.
The functions that can be controlled
through voice commands are those
that can be completely controlled by
a "dialog" between user and CON-
NECT. The CONNECT will actually
communicate any information via au-
dio and so the driver is not distracted
from driving to watch the display.
Furthermore, the voice commands
adopted are just those standing a good
chance to be recognised by the system
without having to be repeated by the
user several times.
VOICE COMMANDS AND MESSAGES
CONNECT voice control system is
based on an algorithm not related to
the user's voice tone and inflexion
therefore, it does not require to be
"trained" to recognise the user's voice.
The user may store with his/her voice
whatever word (e.g. names for the
phone book), which will be then
recognised by the system only if re-
peated by the person who stored
them.
The system can also recognise, in
addition to single words, sequences of
words since it is provided with a glos-
sary consisting of 45 sentences. The
system glossary is divided into organ-
ised sections each one referred to a
particular voice-controlled function.
In this way the glossary section active
will be restricted to the terms required
by the specific function, thus reduc-
ing to a minimum the margin of error
in understanding the voice command.
IMPORTANT Voice commands
have always priority on the manual
controls of the CONNECT.
ACTIVATING/DEACTIVATING
VOICE COMMANDS
To turn on/off the voice control sys-
tem, press briefly (less than 2 sec-
onds) the VOICE button A (fig. 2) lo-
cated on the steering wheel. After
turning on, the system identifies the
current audio function and will set to
dialog; a beep tells the user that the
system is ready to receive commands.
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