Nuance Communications technology is making its natural language command platform available to automotive manufacturers with Dragon Drive. Vehicles with Dragon Drive will allow drivers to use commands to get the system to perform a range of tasks, including conversational text messaging, getting directions to restaurants, or finding traffic information.
The benefit of Dragon Drive's natural language technology is the elimination gateway commands and command trees. With natural spoken queries, you no longer need to say different keywords to get directions to the airport and you won't struggle to remember the exact word combination to change the radio station. Just tell it what you want it to do, and the system will figure it out. Dragon Drive will function similarly to what's offered with Siri and Nuance's Dragon Go app, but perhaps even better.
Dragon Drive learns the speaker's voice patterns and its language models take into account car noises, such as driving on rough pavement and windshield wipers in the background to provide greater accuracy. And each time the user calls the system, Dragon Drive adds that historical data to the vehicle's audio profile to help it adapt to speech under different driving conditions. That continuous learning will make easier for it to understand what you're saying the next time you call the system with the windows rolled down.
Nuance Communications is speaking on The Human TV Remote: Gesture and Voice Recognition panel on Tuesday, June 5 at 2:30 p.m. during the CONNECTIONS digital living conference.
