description the principles of the present invention and their advantages are best understood by referring to the illustrated embodiment depicted in fig1 5 of the drawings in which like numbers designate like parts fig1 a is a diagram of an exemplary off board voice automated navigation system embodying the principles of the present invention fig1 b is a flow chart of a procedure 100 illustrating representative operations of system 100 also embodying the principles of the present invention referring to fig1 a and 1 b when the vehicle operator 10 wishes to enter a target destination in order to receive route guidance a wireless communications link is initiated to the remote data center 19 at block 101 of procedure 100 the process could be initiated in a number of ways such as speaking a command in the vehicle or preferably by pressing a button communication is established and the vehicle operator 10 speaks commands into the hands free microphone 11 located in proximity to the vehicle operator 10 at block 102 the vehicle operator 39 s spoken commands pass over the wireless link 25 through the vehicle mounted wireless communication module 14 through the vehicle mounted wireless antenna 1 5 through the wireless network 39 s antenna 16 and wireless network base station 17 through one of many telecommunications networks 18 and into the data center 19 from the data center the voice recognition unit 20 interprets the spoken command s the commands include information regarding an address poi or street intersection for an address entry the city and state may be spoken first the voice recognition unit 20 attempts at block 103 of procedure 100 of fig1 b to recognize.