Criteria-Based Audio Messaging in Vehicles

A method for delivering a criteria-based message to a vehicle occupant, the method comprising:

• determining a set of audio service demonstrations;
• associating at least one prerequisite with each of the audio service demonstrations;
• transmitting a user initiated telematics request, an identifier of a vehicle, and at least one criteria from a telematics unit integral with the vehicle to a data center remote from the vehicle;
• comparing at the remote data center at least one of the user initiated telematics request, the identifier of the vehicle, and the at least one criteria with the at least one prerequisite;
• determining at the remote data center a response to the telematics request including both:
• a descriptive response;
• and
• one of the audio service demonstrations dependent upon the comparison;
• and
• communicating the response to the telematics request and the one of the descriptive response and the one audio service demonstration from the remote data center to the telematics unit;
• and
• outputting the one of the descriptive response and the one audio service demonstration to a user in the vehicle through a speaker within the vehicle.