World-Class In-Car Speech Recognition System for Navigation in …

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the road, since no typing on touch screens or manual dialing is required. … natural-sounding text-to-speech, the Honda Odyssey, the Acura RL and the Acura …

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World-Class In-Car Speech Recognition
System for Navigation in 2005 Honda Cars
IBM?, the world leader in information technology innovation, today announced that it has jointly
developed with Honda Motor Company a unique, hands-free and natural-sounding in-vehicle
speech-recognition system - the industry’s leading-edge navigation application. Honda will offer the system
as standard equipment on the 2005 Acura RL and as options on both the 2005 Acura MDX and 2005 Honda
Odyssey in the United States and Canada beginning this month.
Using IBM Embedded ViaVoice software, Honda is the first car manufacturer to equip automobiles with
in-car navigation systems using advanced speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities that can
identify spoken street and city names that exist across the entire continental United States. This allows
drivers to speak all street addresses represented in the US navigation system database and receive
turn-by-turn voice guidance to their destinations. The breakthrough voice-recognition system can also
enable enhanced ease-of-use by eliminating the need for drivers to take their hands off the wheel or eyes off
the road, since no typing on touch screens or manual dialing is required.
To create…