2008 MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class voice

164 SystemSystem settings
Press

.
The System menu appears.
Selectable soft keys
Time
soft key

For setting the date and time.

Lang.
soft key

For setting the language
( page
166)
.

Tones
soft key

For switching confirmation beeps

and acoustic signals ON and OFF ( page
167)
.

Display
soft key

For changing the display settings ( page
167)
.

VC tips
soft key

To call up the Voice control settings* ( page
168)
.

Reset
soft key

For reversing COMAND to the factory
settings
( page
171)
.

In the System menu, press the
Time

soft key.
The Date/Time settings menu appears.
The following options are now available:
Setting the time

Setting the date

Setting the date/time format
Calling up the System menu
Setting the date/time

166 SystemSystem settings
Setting the format: 
Use

or

to select a format.

Press

.
The appropriate format is selected.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for the
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.
The language setting changes the display
language as well as the language used for
voice instructions in navigation announce
-
ments.
In the System menu
( page
164)
,
press the
Lang.
soft key.
The language list is displayed.
The following options are available:
Instr. cluster settings
:
The system switches to the lan
-
guage already set in the vehicle in
-
strument cluster (
 Vehicle
Operator’s manual).

All other options:

The system switches to the re
-
quested language.
iList entry 1-3: Date formatsList entry 4 and 5: Time formats

(Entry 5 is not visible on the display ex
-
ample below.)Solid circle
: format set

Empty circle
: format not set
Setting the language

168 SystemSystem settingsSwitching the display dimming

characteristics You can select from 3 display dimming
modes:
Day
mode

The display is constantly set to daytime
design.

Night
mode

The display is constantly set to night
-
time design.

Automatic

The display will change depending on
the illumination of the instrument clus
-
ter.

Use

or

to select an entry.

Press

.
Adjusting display brightness 
Press the
Bright.
soft key.
The Brightness display appears.

Press

or

.
The brightness changes accordingly.

Press the
Back
soft key or wait for
screen to change.
The new setting is stored.
Use this function to:
Start or delete voice control individual
-
ization
( page
169)

Activate/deactivate the voice control
help window
Activate/deactivate the help window
Open the System menu
( page
164)
.

Press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears. Voice control settings*

169 System
System settings

Press the

key to select the
Help
Window
menu item.
The status bar shows you whether the
help window is activated or deactivat
-
ed.

Press

.
The menu to activate or deactivate the
help window appears. The solid circle shows whether the help window is activated or deactivated.In the following display example, the
help window is activated.

Press

or

to select the menu
item with the empty circle
.

Press

.
This will activate or deactivate the help
window.
Voice control individualizationThe individualization function is used to
adapt the voice control to your own voice
and to therefore improve speech recogni
-
tion. This does not affect speech recogni
-
tion of other users.Individualization consists of two stages.
The first stage involves training digits,
whilst the second stage trains specific
commands.
From the System menu
( page
164)
,
press the
VC tips
soft key.
The Voice control menu appears.

Press

to select menu item
Individualization
.

Press

.
The Individualization menu appears.

170 SystemSystem settingsStarting individualization
Press

to select menu item
Start
new individualization
.

Press

.
The individualization process starts. The system now guides you through
the individualization process using a di
-
alog, all operations are voice inputs.
After completion of the first stage, the sys
-
tem prompts you to save the data from the
first stage.
If you don’t save the first stage:
Individualization is cancelled,

Data from an existing first stage re
-
mains unchanged.
If you save the first stage:
Data from an existing first stage is
over-written but is not saved until the
second stage is started.
If you don’t start the second stage:
Data from the first stage remains un
-
changed,

The individualization process is fin
-
ished.
After completion of the second stage, the
system prompts you to save the data of the
second stage.If you don’t save the second stage:
Individualization is cancelled,

Data from an existing second stage re
-
mains unchanged.
If you save the second stage:
Data from an existing second stage is
deleted and all new data is saved,

Individualization is finished.
iYou can only activate the individualiza
-
tion function when the car is station
-
ary. If the car is moving, the following
message appears:
Individualization
only possible when car is station
-
ary
.
iIf you later decide to start the second
stage, you must restart the individual
-
ization process from the beginning of
the first stage.

184 IndexTransmitting number sequences (tele-phone). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Travelling abroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31for navigation announcements . . . . 110Trip interruption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 UUniversal Time Coordinatedsee UTCUnlock code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88UTC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,
175
VVehicle transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106VOICE ANNOUNCEMENTS MUTED. 129Volumeautomatic volume control . . . . . . . . . 30setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30for navigation announcements . . 110
WWarning. . 37,
45,
51,
54,
61,
63,
82,
89,
104,
134
WB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,
38,
42,
175
WRONG PIN NUMBER . . . . . . . . . . . . 87