NAV - Voice Navigation

here's the text cut and pasted from babelfish.altavista.com (it ain't perfect, but you can get the idea from it):

- TV & NAVI jumper
14,700 Yen (consumer tax pulling out 14,000 Yen) - 15,750 Yen (consumer tax pulling out 15,000 Yen)

While travelling TV enjoys by installing in the genuine TV&NAVI system equipped car, the epoch-making electronic device where the setting of NAVI becomes possible. エンタテイメントパーツ which does not make the occupant be bored * for the occupant it is the エ ン shield イ men ト part.

- Specification/coupler on type and selector switch attachment
* At the Toyota store we have not handled.
* When the security system other than the Toyota genuine it is jointly used, the operation malfunction occurs
There is a possibility
 
Same as Lexus GX?

I noticed the Lexus GX has Voice assisted Navigation. Would this be the same at the 2003 4-Runner Nav system? Could we try getting the mic part thru Lexus?

stu
 
Steve Ganz from Carson Toyota sells the microphone for $50. He does not have any in stock but he said once he gets 10 people, he will order it again. (3-4 weeks) I asked him to add me to the waiting list.

His email is [email protected]
 
I thought the 4Runners with NAV already had this? I assumed they did because the pictures in the brochure and website all have the voice button on the steering wheel. If you look close enough, you'll see "VOICE NAVIGATION" at the top of the NAV screen as well. Did Toyota make a marketing mistake?

Link to Picture :confused:
 
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lojeff: coolness. I just sent him an email...

tkr: I sure don't see the voice button on the steering wheel. unless it's the button on the lower right part of the center section (opposite the radio control keys)...is that what you're talking about?

Kev
 
Kev,

Yeah, it's the button opposite the audio controls on the wheel. I know the GX has them there too.
 
my repair parts list (not the OEM repair manual) for the 2003 4runner shows the part number for the left hand side (the audio buttons as) part number 84247-35010...show's a rough replacement value of $85.17. it shows a part number for the right side, but I'm betting it's the plastic we've already got. part number 84244-35010...replacement value $0.00 (which is odd, 'cause plastic costs too...) Then there's a description called 'harness, switch' part number 84204-58010 value $32.58, must be the wiring up from the radio to the steering wheel.

ok, so that's just for the statement of those facts. looking in my 2003 oem repair manual...in vol 2, page 67-23 it says this for step 5:
Remove steering pad switch LH (W/O steering pad switch RH)
(a) disconnect the connector.
(b) disconnect the connector of cruise control main switch
(c) remove screw
(d) disengage the meshing of 2 pins and remove the steering pad switch LH

the thing that caught my eye was the "w/o steering pad switch rh" I would have thought they would have called what we have on the standard 4Rs that came w/o the nav, the "steering pad blank RH" or "steering pad cover RH"

Anyone got any lists for the 04? I went by the dealer about a week ago to look at mounts for the backup camera on the 4R, but our local dealer here didn't have any 4Rs w/ the nav system left, I ended up looking at the Land Cruiser. Maybe I'll go back and look again and see if I can track one down...

Kev
 
Reply from Steve at Carson Toyota

Steve Ganz from Carson Toyota emailed me and added me to the list. He does't have any in stock but he said once he gets 10 people, he will order it again. He won't charge until it arrives. So email him and get on the list so he will order them.


His email is [email protected]

stu

Just added the TRD exhaust today. Sweet!
 
lojeff said:
Steve Ganz from Carson Toyota sells the microphone for $50. He does not have any in stock but he said once he gets 10 people, he will order it again. (3-4 weeks) I asked him to add me to the waiting list.

His email is [email protected]

after contacting steve, he says this:

Originally from email from Steve Ganz, [email protected]

I think we have some people from other sites as well......
Let's do this if you don't mind, please have each individual use the secure link listed below and place an actual order, that way each one is reserved for that person. I will keep the information on file (not charge yet) and let you know when we have 10 people.

Use this link https://shuksan-secured.com/l-tunedparts.com/html/partsordering-trd-secure.html fill out the info and comment section, all orders come directly to me. This is our Lexus site but it's secure.

-Regards,
-Steve Ganz

Just fyi, choose a year of lexus and stick stuff in the fields for 'type', 'engine', and 'transmission'...I found NA was good. and put what you want in the parts description...

Kev
 
Re: Reply from Steve at Carson Toyota

smintz said:
Steve Ganz from Carson Toyota emailed me and added me to the list. He does't have any in stock but he said once he gets 10 people, he will order it again. He won't charge until it arrives. So email him and get on the list so he will order them.


His email is [email protected]

stu

Just added the TRD exhaust today. Sweet!


Are talking about the MIC or the Steering wheel switch?
 
2 thumbs down on the mic. It was kinda funny how bad it was.

Audio on ...turned radio on (so far so good)
fm1.......location marked
louder1.......resturants added to POI
CD...........Audio Off

$50 down the drain.
 
Surely there must be a way of "training" the Nav System to recognize your voice. For example the training session would go something like this: Enter the voice training mode. You would say the voice command, then press the appropriate key then say the command again, do this until you have completed all the comands you want to function properly then you would exit the training mode.

This is not the actual sequence, just a hypothetical example.

Other voice activated software has some sort of training session so the system will recognize your particular regional accent or dialect.

Comments??
 
I would hope/think it would have such a feature but a quick run through the menus and I didn't see it. If anyone locates it please let me know.
 
Sorry it took so long but here are the pics of the wiring..

NavVoice1.JPG

Test Mode

NavVoice2.JPG

Microphone Check

NavVoice3.JPG

The Harness which the mic plugs into

NavVoice4.JPG

What plugs into the Headunit (Camry Nav)

NavVoice5.JPG

Wiring

NavVoice6.JPG

This is when you cut open the heat shrink around the nav, I see they use common ground for mic, and also it uses the same ground to trigger the button to activate.

NavVoice7.JPG

Different angle

NavVoice8.JPG

NavVoice9.JPG

NavVoice10.JPG


Yellow and Red go to the mic, and seems to be the input part, and the other colors are the ground, also right undernieth the red, that wire goes to the switch which is a momentary trigger to ground, which it gets from all the other wires tied together.


ttt
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8

1 (red) to mic
2 (yellow) to mic
3 blank
4 (green) to common
5 (black) to switch (The other side of switch goes to the common bunch of wires)
6 (blue) to common
7 (brown) to common
8 (white) to common


Hope this helps!

j0.
 
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j0-

you rock, thanks!

one clarification, tho. the common wires (pins 4, 6-8)...those are just tied together, or are they tied to an external ground (external to the radio, that is)?

Kevin
 

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