Nuance’s Dragon Drive Powers the Voice Interface of SAIC’s Connected Car Roewe RX5
July 07 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Dragon Drive Gives Drivers Smarter, Safer Access to In-Car
and Connected Services and Content
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that
its Dragon Drive connected car voice and content platform powers
China’s Roewe RX5 connected infotainment system, developed by a
joint venture of SAIC Motor Corp., one of China’s leading car
manufacturers and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China’s e-commerce
giant.
The conversational voice interface supporting Mandarin Chinese
in the new Roewe RX5 integrates Dragon Drive’s hybrid
embedded-cloud voice recognition and natural language understanding
(NLU) built on Deep Neural Networks to drive an incredibly accurate
and fast voice experience. Dragon Drive also brings speech signal
enhancement and text-to-speech, delivering a system that listens,
understands and responds in a more intuitive and intelligent
manner, ultimately minimizing driver distractions.
The Roewe RX5 offers a number of infotainment and in-car service
enhancements including:
- Wake-up word and barge-in: Drivers can
simply engage the in-car system just by using their voice, waking
up the system by saying “Hello Banma.” And just like in the course
of natural conversation, users can interrupt the system at any time
with a voice command.
- Natural and flexible control of the
navigation system by voice: The user can search for
points-of-interest (POI) using natural language or enter a
destination by providing the POI category, the name of a place or
by speaking the address or crossroads, for example, “Navigate to
the crossroads of Nanjing road and Xizang road.”
- A more human conversation: Drivers can
quickly and easily make calls, search for music available from
streaming services or local media, find weather, and more.
“We’ve worked closely with SAIC to deeply integrate our Dragon
Drive platform to deliver an intuitive experience for the Roewe
RX5, with incredibly high accuracy, speed and ease of use that
exceeds China’s consumer expectations of the connected car. It will
undoubtedly change the landscape of the automotive ecosystem in the
region,” said Arnd Weil, senior vice president and general manager,
Nuance Automotive.
Dragon Drive offers a level of user experience unmatched by
aftermarket third party mobile phone solutions or solutions relying
on cloud-based speech technology alone. Nuance’s unique hybrid
voice capabilities provide drivers with a safer, smarter way to
access apps and services, across more than 40 different
languages.
AvailabilityThe Roewe RX5 featuring Nuance’s Dragon Drive
technology will ship in China in August 2016. The system supports
Mandarin Chinese speech recognition and NLU, as well as Mandarin
Chinese, Mandarin Taiwanese and Cantonese text-to-speech.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.Nuance Communications,
Inc. is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for
businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies,
applications and services make the user experience more compelling
by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems.
Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience
Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit
www.nuance.com.
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