OK, I know very little about the voice control on the IS, and i know you can't really change the nav destination while moving.

Let's say I have my home address saved in the system can I while driving:

1: Use voice commands to set the nave to take me home
2: Use any buttons on nav to navigate me home

 

Just press the voice command button and then say "home". Easy as pie.

 

You can even use the voice command to enter an address that isn't saved in memory while driving. Do it like this:

<push voice button> "Address"
<push voice button> "Illinois"
<push voice button> "Chicago"
<push voice button> "Wacker Drive"
<push voice button> "two three three"
<push voice button> "Enter destination"

 

That's great. Another point for the IS.

 

there is a hack for changing the destination while driving, its been posted on here........... if you dont want to search here it is:

first you go to the menu screen
then select volume
then touch the left upper corner, then left bottom corner, then left upper corner, then left bottom corner again
then a hack screen will pop up
hold the override button till u hear a beep
then press back

this will reset when you turn off the car

 

Thats fine if and I mean a big IF it understands your voice command. Very unlikely. But voice command recognition stinks in all vehicles.

 

and it is easy to push one button at the bottom of the destination screen vs. going through the voice command but that is still an option you should practice. Go through the voice command list by saying "help" after the beep and try a few at a time until they are second nature. About a dozen will be enough to start with. It is funny when the system seemingly refuses to correctly interpret what your request was and does something else. You should definitely practice the commands before you try to impress your friends....

Rock

 

It gets my enter-random-address voice commands right about 95% of the time (unless someone else in the car is talking when I hit the voice command button -- but that's not the software's fault). The other 5% tend to be cases where there are two streets with phonetically-similar names or just two streets with the same name in the same town. In that case, you can hit the voice button and go "next candidate" until it gives you the specific street you want.

 

Can you choose pre-determined destinations in the nav using buttons whilst moving? I understand you cannot enter an aaddress this way.

 

Well obviously, that can be done if you do the volume hack trick. But I'm pretty sure you can select any one of the 5 presets you have on the bottom of the destination page just by pressing the flag.

 

You can't find your way home? JK. When I read that you needed your nav to get home I thought it was kinda funny, but now I can think of times when I would need it too. (there's no beer guy smilie. what's up with that?)

 

I don't really have any problems with the nav recognizing my voice when I enter in an address. Only once did it get the city name wrong. Other than that, i use the voice recognition all the time including speaking a phone number, all with great results. I'm actually very impressed with the voice recognition vs. the range rover which is my only other voice recognition experience. Just my opinion.

 

"70 degrees" seems to be the only problem I and others have encountered.

 

I've found that saying "7 degrees" gets you "70 degrees" every time.

 

good idea....