Sorry to bring up such an old thread, but I'm having this problem again.
Last time this thread was active I was having the problem with the 2.x firmware. I've since switched cars and firmware. I'm now running the 3.0201 firmware. My voice recognition worked fine after upgrading to 3.0, 3.01, and the latest 3.0201. I'm not sure exactly when it stopped working, because I don't use the feature all the time. I did have the update vr dictionary option turned off for a while because I wasn't changing music much. Then one day I went to use the voice command (or whatever its called), and it didn'