HERE and Nuance are collaborating to enhance integrated location and voice services in the connected car platform. Both the companies will work together to advance voice-activated point-of-interest (POI) experiences for connected cars.
Nuance will work with HERE to create innovative voice and natural language solutions. The company is using HERE’s map and POI data to optimize on a global basis its Dragon Drive connected car voice technologies. It will leverage the data to further enhance the Nuance Automotive Assistant with the aim of providing a system that allows the user to issue simpler instructions, with a more effective response.
Arnd Weil, senior vice president and general manager of Nuance Automotive said
There are two layers in a voice recognition solution: the layer that recognizes human voice and the actual words issuing driver commands, and the other layer that validates the command against what the system expects, which is the grammar, language or terminology. With so many street names, towns, countries, cities, places in the world – it’s incredibly important to ensure that voice recognition system can truly understand and recognize these words. As such, we need a strong dataset of map and POI data to train and advance our voice recognition. Otherwise the quality and accuracy of the content delivered to the driver will be severely impacted. By leveraging HERE data, we are able to further ensure that the driver receives the most accurate, relevant content available.
Bruno Bourguet, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development at HERE said
Drivers want innovative and cool services in their cars. As cars get increasingly connected, voice plays a key role in accessing those services. We are pleased that Nuance has elected to leverage HERE data to enhance that experience.”
HERE was acquired by consortium of automakers including Audi, BMW, and Daimler for $3.07 billion in August last year. The company has been working towards self-driving car and announced last month that it plans to use real-time data to build maps for autonomous driving.