BMW 1M Voice Commands: What are your favorites?

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I admit, I have not used the BMW Voice Command button (or features) to my advantage at all. And I'm sure there are some great uses. I have just been too focused on actually enjoying the car to go read the manual on available voice commands

Dear Pros, What are your favorite commands and voice shortcuts? (are there any?)

[l888apex]

I use the "enter address" function almost every time.

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Originally Posted by l888apex

I use the "enter address" function almost every time.

What are the exact steps? Push Voice Button and just say "Enter Address" followed by the actual address?

[gregthegr8]

While not 1M specific, a fun one is if you're listening to something in the media or an ipod, etc. etc. and want to switch over to Sirius, you can hit the button and say, "Satellite Radio Channel ____" with whatever channel you want and bam! Don't have to hit any idrive buttons or scroll through channels and is pretty quick. If you're already in satellite radio, you can just hit the button and say "channel ___" and it'll go to that channel, too.

[l888apex]

Originally Posted by DSCPLN

What are the exact steps? Push Voice Button and just say "Enter Address" followed by the actual address?

Yes, say that and then the House Number in Single Digits, followed by the Street, City and State.

[Dee Pee]

Gotta admit that I have never learned how to use this function on the car.

[DSCPLN]

Originally Posted by Ian///M

'Activate M mode' and 'Activate MDM' commands are the most used

You can use a Voice Command to activate those as well??

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Originally Posted by l888apex

Yes, say that and then the House Number in Single Digits, followed by the Street, City and State.

Amazing. Will start using the "Enter Address" more frequently

[yemski]

I use "phonebook" with my cell connected via BT to bring up my contacts and make calls.

[Osiris]

I use "stop guidance" a lot. It stops the navigation if you have an address put in, thereby silencing the nagging lady :-)

[Mahlzeit]

Originally Posted by yemski

I use "phonebook" with my cell connected via BT to bring up my contacts and make calls.

Whats the complete syntax to call a contact?

"Phonebook"
Name of your contact
"Call"

?

[l888apex]

The trick to the voice command is to simply say what you see. Call out the logical prompt for the name of the menu that you would normally access with the controller and the car will walk you through the rest.

Any doubts just look in the back of the manual for a full listing or press the voice command button and say "help".

[RimasRS]

I use mostly
-call- -name- to confirm -yes- 3 words and it is calling to someone from your phone book.

[pinmagic]

I've never quite understood what activating the "short commands" feature does for me. Anyone care to clue me in?

[yemski]

Originally Posted by Mahlzeit

Whats the complete syntax to call a contact?

"Phonebook"
Name of your contact
"Call"

?

yup it's basically
"Phonebook"
Then idrive will ask you to say a name e.g "Doe John"
Then confirm with "Yes"

Although Rimas' method seems more efficient:

Originally Posted by RimasRS

I use mostly
-call- -name- to confirm -yes- 3 words and it is calling to someone from your phone book.

[Artemis]

I rarely use the voice control system (http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/t...ol_system.html).

I programmed my most frequent commands in the programmable memory keys:
http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=652912

For speed toggling between split screen and full screen: just push the "OPTION" button on the iDrive and then click the iDrive controller to confirm ticking the "Split screen" box. As I always keep the iDrive scroller ready on the "Split screen" position in the "OPTION" menu, I don't need to scroll up through that menu. So it only takes two quick touches to toggle (and you don't need looking at the iDrive or the SATNAV).

Here's the list of voice commands:
(source: BMW 128i/135i Owner's Manual 2013 (USA) - see the Manuals sticky: http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showp...82&postcount=1)

[Jay-K]

Originally Posted by Ian///M

No, was joking mate.
I find this feature completely useless. Should have rather put the traction control button there instead

+11111

[Zuzu]

Originally Posted by Ian///M

I find this feature completely useless. Should have rather put the traction control button there instead

Completely agree..

[DSCPLN]

Best Discovery from this thread: The "Enter Address" command

[Mahlzeit]

Originally Posted by yemski

yup it's basically
"Phonebook"
Then idrive will ask you to say a name e.g "Doe John"
Then confirm with "Yes"

Although Rimas' method seems more efficient:

Thanks - but I don't have idrive. And, although I have voice commend, I think the commands are a bit different. Need to take a peek in to the manual, and mess around with some test.

Trouble is - I'm usually too impatient to start driving - and then once I'm going, to hell w/ the gizmos. Except spotify over my phone.

[ayao]

Originally Posted by Mahlzeit

Thanks - but I don't have idrive. And, although I have voice commend, I think the commands are a bit different. Need to take a peek in to the manual, and mess around with some test.

Trouble is - I'm usually too impatient to start driving - and then once I'm going, to hell w/ the gizmos. Except spotify over my phone.

The only two I've figured out how to use (no idrive) are:
-"dial name"
-"dial number"

The "dial name" required me to program the spoken name with a particular phone number.

[Mahlzeit]

I also used "call" and then "name" successfully for "wife's name, mobile" but "wife's name, home" doesn't work. Oh well. It's super simple to hit 3 buttons in rapid succession to reliably achieve the same result and talking at my car.