Nuance Dragon Drive Expands Multi-Passenger Automotive Assistant with AI and Interoperability
June 06 2017 - 8:00AM
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) today announced that its
Dragon Drive artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the
connected car now features expanded conversational and cognitive
capabilities for its Automotive Assistant to provide everyone in
the car – drivers and passengers – with the ability to ask for
navigation, music, content and other in-car features just by
speaking – no wake-up phrase or button press required. Dragon
Drive is also expanding car-to-home and home-to-car
interoperability for automakers with the ability to create their
own customized in-car infotainment features that can talk to and
control smart home systems and applications.
A recently published survey conducted by Nuance among the
world’s leading automakers has shown that more than 90% of
participants confirmed that AI is important or very important to
their company’s human machine interface (HMI) strategy, with 85% of
respondents adding that personalization of that experience is
important or very important. Additionally, 43% of respondents
noted that AI will have the greatest impact on increasing overall
user satisfaction with their in-car systems.
Empowering automakers to make the AI-driven connected car a
reality, Nuance has expanded the conversational and cognitive AI
capabilities of Dragon Drive with even more features and
functionality for everyone in the car. Drivers and passengers will
have a personalized experience all the way from music preferences,
to navigation, points of interest, news feeds and in-car features
such as heating and air conditioning – all a result of the
Automotive Assistant understanding and learning needs and
preferences over time.
Dragon Drive can interact with passengers in each seat through a
combination of its automotive-grade signal enhancement and
acoustics innovation with voice-biometrics, ambient wake-up, hybrid
embedded-cloud speech recognition and natural language
understanding, and text-to-speech. Dragon Drive’s entire stack is
powered by Nuance’s innovative machine learning and contextual
reasoning to create an AI platform optimized for the connected car
– and ultimately an assistant that is able to listen, understand,
anticipate, respond and proactively engage with both drivers and
passengers. So even a passenger in the back seat can say
“play my favorites” and Dragon Drive’s Automotive Assistant
delivers a personalized streaming radio station or play list.
Dragon Drive is also advancing the vision for car-to-home and
home-to-car interoperability with a flexible platform that
allows the automotive assistant to easily integrate with
third-party apps and services such as lighting, security and other
smart home hub services, giving drivers and passengers the ability
to stay connected to the car and the home no matter where they
are.
“Giving automakers the ability to integrate a central,
customized automotive assistant is essential for two reasons.
First, today’s connected cars have so many rich content apps and
services that everyone should have seamless access to as part of
the in-car experience. Second, an intelligent automotive
assistant is critical for the driver’s trust in a (semi-)
autonomous vehicle – and that trust will be essential for the
adoption of autonomous driving,” said Arnd Weil, senior vice
president and general manager, Nuance Automotive. “These
industry trends combined with consumer demand for access to the
services and apps as part of their everyday life are what make
Dragon Drive an incredibly unique solution for automakers, giving
them the ability to deliver an intuitive and intelligent automotive
assistant.”
Nuance’s vision for the future of the connected car is fueled by
the passion of its customers and partners to make people’s
connected lives even more productive and fulfilling. Watch
the Nuance Automotive vision video for a glimpse into the future of
AI-driven automotive and IoT experiences.
Dragon Drive powers more than 160 million cars on the road today
across more than 40 languages, creating conversational experiences
for Audi, BMW, Ford, GM and many others. To learn more about the
ways in which Dragon Drive is amplifying the intelligence of the
connected car, visit Dragon Drive on nuance.com.
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About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) 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.
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