Voice control enables you to control many functions in the car. Here you will find help in using voice control and tips for improving its use. These articles do not apply to cars with Android Automotive.

If your car is equipped with Sensus Navigation you can use voice control to give spoken commands in order to control parts of your navigation system.

Getting started with voice control of Sensus Navigation

Voice control allows you to control functions in the car, for example, the climate control in the passenger compartment. Using voice control to control the climate control system means that you can change temperature, activate seat heating or change the fan speed for example.

Voice control of the car's climate

Volvo is working constantly on improving voice control in your car. You can download files yourself for updating your car's voice control. Updating occurs in two stages using an empty USB memory.

Updating voice control

Voice control allows you to control functions in the car, e.g. radio and media or a connected mobile phone. In cars equipped with Sensus Navigation you can also interact with the navigation system. A few tips that might be useful to bear in mind when using voice control are listed below.

Improve your use of voice control

The following commands may be useful when you want to control your navigation system using voice commands.

Voice control of Sensus Navigation: Useful commands

There are various language settings for the voice control system in your Volvo. This article describes the languages available and the language settings possible for these.

Voice control language settings

Voice control allows you to control functions in the car, e.g. radio or a connected mobile phone using spoken commands. In cars equipped with Sensus Navigation you can also interact with the navigation system.

Getting started with voice control

If you have connected a phone to the car then you can use voice control to activate commands for the phone and its functions.

Voice control of the phone

Voice control allows you to control functions in the car, e.g. reading out text messages from a connected mobile phone.

Voice control of text messages

You can control the media player in your car using voice control. You can start playback from various devices, start playback of music, select radio station, etc.

Voice control of media

Voice control allows you to voice-activate certain functions in the multimedia system, in the radio, in a Bluetooth&reg;-connected mobile phone or in Volvo's navigation system.

Voice control

Use voice recognition