[istirfryuinmywok]

Hey everyone,

I'm new here- just picked up a 2012 silver manual tranny a couple weeks ago and I love it. I have the stock Pioneer head unit and have figured out most of its functionality, except for one thing. I have searched the boards on this and other scion xb sites to no avail. I have even "chatted" with someone on the Scion website about it, which was also no help.

I am having trouble getting the voice command function to work and am a bit confused as to what all I can control with it as well. I have an iPhone 4 paired to it and have been able to stream my music fine both over the bluetooth connection or with it physically connected via the usb jack, as well as make and receive phone calls using the phonebook/speed dial functions. I have also been using an iPod classic 160gb when I want to have all my music available.

Anyway, with the iPod classic connected, pushing/holding the "call/voice command" button does nothing, which I attribute to the iPod classic not being capable of voice command...? However, with my iPhone connected (either via bluetooth or usb), when I hold the "call/voice command" button until it beeps, I speak and nothing happens. I can tell by looking at my iPhone that it is behaving as though I have held the "home" button on the iPhone itself, which turns on its voice command function and awaits speech input.

Sorry for the longwinded first post and hopefully what I'm trying to figure out isn't too confusing.

I guess in short, can someone with an iPhone paired to the the same head unit walk me through utilizing the voice command function? Thank you in advance!

 

[phobic]

welcome to the site man. And I didnt know the stock pioneer even had voice commands. thats kinda neat though.

 

[RKK]

Any more word on this?

I see where I can adjust the voice levels but Have no idea what voice commands can even be used.

 

[psycho_meatball]

i know with my iphone 4s, siri is activated but with you having the iphone 4 i dunno what it would control. maybe find out what the regular voice commands for the iphone are and try some of those.

 

[RKK]

Voice commands start on page 66 of the Audio System Owners manual and are activated by holding the phone icon for 0.8 seconds

 

[hotwls13]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm having the same issue. I just bought my new 2012 xB on Saturday. My bluetooth connection to my iphone 4s works fine. All the calling using buttons on Pioneer (call, phonebook, speed dial etc) works.

If I hit the home button on my phone, Siri comes up (through stereo speakers) and I say "call, Bob, Work" and it works fine. BUT if I initiate the voice command by holding the TALK button on the Pioneer, NOTHING comes thru my speakers. I can see on my phone that Siri is initiated, and I can say "Call, Bob, Work" and at that point the car speakers initiate and it starts dialing. It's like Siri or the Voice command part isn't activated on the car speakers until the actual call starts dialing. This makes it pretty hard if Siri doesn't understand and I can't read/see the iphone screen to know Siri didn't understand.

Does all that make sense??