Navigation/XM Radio voice recognition?

smokeyy said:

Does anyone know if the navigation/radio has voice recognition? I read on the sister Acadia site that they were able to do that. I don't recall reading anything about this before the Acadia site. When I drove the Acura MDX, I remember it having that feature and it was very nice.

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yes, the enclave has voice activated navi.

Another nice surprise! I'm glad I DIDN'T know about this online community before I ordered my Enclave. You guys/gals have been great. I would not have been able to wait 8-11 weeks. I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas.

Do not confuse the MDX voice recognition with the Enclave. The MDX is more advance with more words and commands recognized.

The MDX must be more advanced b/c if the Enclave gave you as much control as MDX, it would be talked about more. When we test drove the MDX it seemed as if we could control everything with our voice. Oh well, I obviously preferred the entire package the Enclave brought to the party vs the Acura. However, if someone from Buick is reading this, advanced voice recognition (Navigation, radio and heating/cooling) is something you can add to the 2009 or 2010 model. IMO!!!

My understanding is that Acura has one of the best (if not the best) Navs & Voice recognition systems available.
I think even Honda (since they're the parent company) has a better Nav system than what we'll get from GM.

Check out the Navi manuals here:
http://www.acadiaforum.net/forum/index.php?topic=535.0

The Acadias Nav is going to be the same as what you'll be getting. The voice commands are listed towards the end. Much more limited I'm sure, but still cool. We ordered our Enclave with NAV.

The link above leads to a PDF file. Here is a link to the text from the manual on voice recognition commands for the Acadia Nav system (should be same for Enclave/Outlook).

http://www.acadiaforum.net/forum/index.php?topic=872.msg22212#msg22212

As I have posted before. IMHO the Voice Recognition is weak at best and the Nav unit is avg.