Alfa Romeo Blue&Me User manual

The innovating Windows Mobile™-based Telematic
Solution for the car
CONTENTS
OVERVIEW ............................................................... 3
The hands-free kit...................................................... 3
Message reader......................................................... 5
Media player ............................................................ 6
Road safety ............................................................. 7
DISPLAY AND BUTTONS ON THE STEERING WHEEL .......... 8
HANDS-FREE KIT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE .................... 10
Prepare your mobile phone phonebook ......................... 10
Try out the voice commands ....................................... 11
Pair your mobile phone .............................................. 11
Make a phone call .................................................... 12
MESSAGE READER QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE ................... 13
MEDIA PLAYER QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE ...................... 13
HOW TO USE Blue&Me™........................................ 14
Steering wheel controls .............................................. 14
Voice commands ...................................................... 14
Display .................................................................... 17
Audio ...................................................................... 17
Blue&Me™ function menu ...................................... 18
HANDS-FREE KIT FUNCTIONS....................................... 19
Making a phone call .................................................. 19
Incoming calls .......................................................... 23
Managing phone calls ................................................ 23
Conference call function ............................................. 24
MESSAGE READER FUNCTIONS .................................... 25
How to read the last SMS text received......................... 25
Inbox....................................................................... 26
Managing messages................................................... 26
Deleting all messages................................................. 27
Signal types.............................................................. 27
MEDIA PLAYER FUNCTIONS ......................................... 28
How to connect the USB device to Blue&Me™............ 28
How to manage the media library ............................... 29
- Selection by folder .................................................. 29
- Selection by artist ................................................... 30
- Selection by genre .................................................. 30
- Selection by album .................................................. 31
- Selection by playlist ................................................. 31
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Playing audio tracks .................................................. 32
- Shuffle playback of the whole media library .................. 32
- Now playing (track data) ......................................... 32
- Audio play ............................................................. 32
- Pause .................................................................... 32
- Play ...................................................................... 32
- Stop ..................................................................... 33
- Next track .............................................................. 33
- Previous track ......................................................... 33
- Changing audio source ............................................. 33
Practical hints for using the media player ....................... 34
- Scrolling ................................................................ 34
- Organizing media files ............................................. 34
- Building the media library on Blue&Me™ ................ 34
- Building playlists for Blue&Me™ ............................ 34
SETTINGS FUNCTIONS................................................ 35
Pairing a mobile phone .............................................. 35
Managing user data .................................................. 38
Media player settings ................................................ 41
- Autoplay ................................................................ 41
- Shuffle .................................................................. 41
- Loop ..................................................................... 42
Advanced options ...................................................... 42
- Accessing the device ID............................................. 42
- Changing the GPRS code .......................................... 43
Exit the settings menu ............................................... 43
Blue&Me™ SUPPORTED MOBILE PHONES ................. 44
Mobile phones with Bluetooth
®
wireless technology ....... 44
- “Pull” phones
(phonebook automatically downloaded) ..................... 44
- “Push” phones
(phonebook not automatically downloaded) ................ 44
- Mobile phones with message reader ........................... 44
Supported USB memory devices .................................. 45
- Management of audio files from iPod devices .............. 45
- USB memory devices ............................................... 45
- Supported digital audio files ...................................... 46
- Supported playlist formats......................................... 47
VOICE COMMANDS (KEYWORDS) - SUMMARY .............. 48
Always available voice commands ................................ 48
Hands-free phone kit voice commands........................... 49
Message reader voice commands (keywords) ................ 51
Media player voice commands..................................... 52
Settings function voice commands................................ 55
TROUBLESHOOTING ................................................... 56
Hands-free kit ........................................................... 56
- General - display screen ............................................ 56
Message reader......................................................... 64
Media player............................................................. 66
iPod ....................................................................... 70
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ..................................... 72
SYSTEM SOFTWARE USE NOTICE ................................ 73
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The Blue&Me™ system, fully integral
with voice commands, buttons on the steer-
ing wheel and multifunction display mes-
sages, gives you the possibility of interact-
ing with your Bluetooth®wireless tech-
nology mobile phone (even if you keep it in
your pocket or bag) without having to take
your eyes off the road or removing your
hands from the steering wheel. To use voice
commands you are not required to train the
voice recognition system to recognize your
voice. This implies that the system is near-
ly equally performing with different persons,
i.e.: the voice recognition system is of the
“speaker independent” type.
With this system you can also play your
favourite music stored on USB device and
select tracks and playback modes with both
voice commands or buttons on the steering
wheel.
THE HANDS-FREE KIT
The basic characteristic of this hands-free kit
is voice recognition with Bluetooth®wire-
less technology. With this system you can
make and receive calls safely and securely
using either voice commands or buttons on
the steering wheel under whatever driving
condition without having to take your eyes
off the road or removing your hands from
the steering wheel, as required by current
law regulations.
Bluetooth®wireless technology enables
wireless connection between your mobile
phone and the hands-free kit installed on
your car.
Hands-free kit with Bluetooth®wireless technology,
message reader and media player
Windows Mobile™-based Alfa Romeo
Blue&Me™ is a personal telematic system
enabling to use communication and enter-
tainment applications expressly designed for
use in the car.
The Blue&Me™ system installed on your
car is equipped with hands-free kit, message
reader and media player, and it is preset for
future installation of additional services.
Note
Not all mobiles support the voice reading of
SMS or the automatic transfer of the directory
through Bluetooth®. For further information,
surf the web site www.alfaromeo.com to find
out the list of compatible mobiles.
OVERVIEW
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To use the hands-free kit, you need a Blue-
tooth®wireless technology enabled mo-
bile phone. This hands-free kit gives you the
possibility of interacting vocally with your
mobile phone while driving, even if your mo-
bile device does not feature this capability.
You can also interact with your mobile phone
manually and visually using the steering
wheel controls and the instrument panel
multifunction display.
For further details on the mobile phones sup-
ported by Blue&Me™, refer to section
Blue&Me™ SUPPORTED MOBILE
PHONES.
To get started with Blue&Me™ hands-free
kit with voice recognition, you have to sim-
ply pair your Bluetooth
®
wireless tech-
nology enabled mobile phone with the sys-
tem.
Pairing is an operation that has to be made
only once.
Note
During the mobile phone pairing procedure,
Blue&Me™ attempts to detect a phone
equipped with Bluetooth
®
wireless tech-
nology within range and then establishes
the connection using a Personal Identifica-
tion Number (PIN).
Once your phone is paired, you have the op-
tion to transfer your mobile phone contacts
to the hands-free kit, to make a phone call
either by using the contacts list or directly
pronouncing the phone number, to answer
a call and also to answer another incoming
phone call.
To interact with Blue&Me
™ you can use
either buttons on the steering wheel and
voice commands. With voice recognition,
you can perform system function by speak-
ing voice commands, also identified as “key-
words”. When the system recognizes a key-
word, it will respond with the appropriate
action. Voice recognition is an easy and con-
venient way to use Blue&Me ™ .
All the system functions are available with-
in the Blue&Me
™ Main Menu. When the
car is not moving, you can surf through the
menu using either buttons on the steering
wheel and voice commands. When you are
travelling, you can interact with
Blue&Me ™ using buttons on the steering
wheel or voice commands relevant only to
phone functions (LAST CALLS and
PHONEBOOK) and media player. To ac-
tivate settings when travelling you can on-
ly use voice commands.
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The hands-free kit enables the following op-
erations:
❒ Contact calling by voice - you can call
a contact in your mobile phone phonebook
using your voice. You can also call a con-
tact in your phonebook by scanning
through the entries on the multifunction
display.
(To use this option you have to transfer your
mobile phone contacts to the hands-free kit
phonebook).
❒ Digit-dialling by voice - you can dial
a phone number by speaking the digits
to be dialled.
❒ To call the SMS text sender - call di-
rectly the last SMS text sender or the
sender of a message received and stored
yet in the Blue&Me ™ inbox.
❒ To answer a call - you can answer an
incoming call by pressing the key
˜
on the
steering wheel.
❒ Conference Call - you can call another
contact while you are engaged in a phone
conversation (with Bluetooth
®
phones
supporting this option)
❒ Call waiting - while engaged in a phone
conversation, you can receive notification
of another incoming phone call, answer
the other incoming phone call, and switch
between two ongoing phone conversa-
tions. (Call waiting is only supported by
a subset of compatible mobile phones).
After you place your mobile phone in the car
environment and create a pairing relationship
with Blue&Me™, you can make phone
calls by speaking keywords or pressing but-
tons on the steering wheel. When using the
hands-free phone, the audio output of a
phone conversation is heard through your car
sound speakers.
MESSAGE READER
(with compatible mobile
phones only)
The Blue&Me™ message reader enables
automatic reading, through the car sound
system, of the SMS texts you receive on
your Bluetooth
®
wireless technology mo-
bile phone. The message reader will also in-
terpret any abbreviation and emoticon con-
tained in the SMS text.
Message reader functions are managed by
the control buttons on the steering wheel or
by the Blue&Me™ voice commands.
The Blue&Me™ message reader enables
the following operations:
❒ To display on the instrument panel mul-
tifunction display a visual notification
signal indicating that you have received
a new SMS text on your Bluetooth
®
wireless technology mobile phone, with
sender’s number/name; Blue&Me™
will also propose you to read the mes-
sage received
❒ To manage the list of SMS texts received
on your Blue&Me™ paired mobile
phone
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❒ To read again the messages received and
stored
❒ To call the SMS text sender using the
buttons on the steering wheel or voice
commands
❒ To delete individual messages or the en-
tire inbox using the buttons on the steer-
ing wheel or voice commands.
The Blue&Me™ system can also recognize
and read abbreviations, if any (e.g. “ILUVU”
will be read like “I love you”) and interpret
the most usual emoticons (e.g. :-) will be read
like “Smile”), adopted nowadays to write
SMS texts.
MEDIA PLAYER
With the Blue&Me™ media player you can
play, via the car sound system, the digital au-
dio files stored on a USB device by simply
connecting it to the USB port located in the
car.
In this way, while you are driving you can
play your favourite personal music collec-
tions.
❒ iPod player - see dedicated paragraph.
The media player enables the following op-
erations:
❒ Digital audio playback - you can
play all your digital audio files ( .mp3 ,
.wma , .wav, .aac ) or play a customized
playlist ( .m3u or .wpl format).
❒ Audio file selection by category -
you can play all audio files of a certain cat-
egory, e.g.: album, artist or genre.
❒ Playback options - while playing tracks
you can select the following options: Play,
Stop, Next track, Previous track, Shuffle
and Loop track .
Note
The media player does not support audio
files compressed with other formats and
DRM (Digital Right Management) protected
audio files. Non-supported audio files that
may be present on the USB device will be
ignored.
To use the media player, you have to sim-
ply connect (directly or by an extension
lead) your USB device to the car USB port.
Fitting the electronic key into the ignition de-
vice, Blue&Me™ will start building your
media library. At the end of this operation
you can surf the whole library and scroll its
categories as required using the buttons on
the steering wheel or voice commands.
Blue&Me™ will then play your selection
via the car sound system.
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ROAD SAFETY
Read and Follow Instructions: before using your system, read and follow all instructions and safety information provided in this end
user manual (“User’s Guide”). Not following precautions found in this User’s Guide can lead to an accident or other serious consequences.
Keep User’s Guide in the car: when kept in the car, the User’s Guide will be a ready reference for you and other users unfamiliar with the sys-
tem. Please make certain that before using the system for the first time, all persons have access to the User’s Guide and read its instructions and safe-
ty information carefully.
WARNING: Operating certain parts of this system while driving can distract your attention away from the road, and
possibly cause an accident or other serious consequences. Do not change system settings or enter data non-verbally
(using your hands) while driving. Stop the car in a safe and legal manner before attempting these operations. This is
important since while setting up or changing some functions you might be required to distract your attention away
from the road and remove your hands from the wheel.
GENERAL OPERATION
Voice Command Control: functions within the system may be accomplished using only voice commands. Using voice commands while driving al-
lows you to operate the system without removing your hands from the wheel.
Prolonged Views of Screen: do not access any function requiring a prolonged view of the screen while you are driving. Pull over in a safe and
legal manner before attempting to access a function of the system requiring prolonged attention. Even occasional short scans to the screen may be
hazardous if your attention has been diverted away from your driving task at a critical time.
Volume Setting: do not raise the volume excessively. Keep the volume at a level where you can still hear outside traffic and emergency signals while
driving. Driving while unable to hear these sounds could cause an accident.
Use of Speech Recognition Functions: speech recognition software is inherently a statistical process which is subject to errors. It is your re-
sponsibility to monitor any speech recognition functions included in the system and address any errors.
Distraction Hazard: any features may require manual (non-verbal) setup. Attempting to perform such set-up or insert data while driving can seri-
ously distract your attention and could cause an accident or other serious consequences. Stop the vehicle in a safe and legal manner before attempt-
ing these operations.
WARNING
Operating certain parts of this system while driving can distract your attention away from the
road, and possibly cause an accident or other serious consequences; for this reason certain func-
tions shall only be used when driving conditions are secure and, if required, only when the car is stopped.
WARNING
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DISPLAY AND BUTTONS ON THE STEERING WHEEL
fig. 1
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USB port
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Button
˜
^
ô
+/ –
N / O
÷/˜
SRC
Notes
❒ For many tasks, the steering wheel buttons SRC and
˜
can be used interchangeably, and you can use the key that is more convenient for you to press.
❒ For both operating modes of steering wheel buttons (short or long press), the function chosen will be activated when you release the button.
Short press function
(less than 1 second)
– Launch Blue&Me™ Main Menu
– Confirm selected menu option
– Accept an incoming phone call
– Switch between two ongoing phone conversations (call waiting)
– Select displayed message
– Cancel voice recognition
– Cancel a voice announcement
– Interrupt message reading
– Exit Blue&Me™ Main Menu
– Exit the sub-menu and return to the previous menu option
– Exit current menu option without storing settings
– Turn the microphone on/off during a phone conversation
– Mute the ring tone of an incoming call
– Media player Pause on/off
– Activate voice recognition
– Interrupt voice announcement to provide a new voice command
– Adjust the volume of Blue&Me™ functions: hands-free kit, message reader
and media player, voice announcements
– Scroll Blue&Me™ menu items
– Scroll inbox messages
– Select media player tracks
– Confirm manually selected menu option
– Switch phone conversation from the hands-free phone to your mobile phone and
vice versa
– Select audio sources (Radio, CD, CD Changer, Media Player)
– Select displayed message
Long press function
(more than 1 second)
– Reject an incoming phone call
– End a phone call (hang up)
–
– Repeat the last utterance
in a voice interaction
–
–
–
–
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