Nuance’s Dragon Drive Powers Automotive Assistant in Toyota Concept-i User Experience Concept Vehicle
January 09 2018 - 12:30PM
CES 2018 -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) today
announced that its Dragon Drive connected car platform powers the
automotive assistant in Toyota’s user experience concept vehicle,
Toyota Concept-i. Concept-i is being showcased at the 2018 Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and features the latest
automotive innovations, including automated technology, emotion
detection, and more.
Dragon Drive leverages conversational artificial intelligence
(AI) to power Concept-i’s fully customized automotive assistant.
Features include voice-controlled restaurant and point of interest
search, navigation, Q&A, sports information, and integration
with content providers like HERE and Yelp.
Dragon Drive’s conversational AI is powered by contextual
reasoning, using knowledge, context of current and past
conversations, and awareness of personal preferences to understand
and complete complex requests and tasks. Working with Toyota’s
emotion estimation engine, Dragon Drive’s conversational AI can
also take a user’s emotional reaction and attention into account to
deliver an intelligent conversation with optimal results.
“We’re laser focused on Dragon Drive innovation that will meet
the needs of the connected, automated car of the future. That’s why
we’re well-poised to support Toyota’s Concept-i, an amazing
representation of what the future of automotive will look like,”
said Arnd Weil, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance
Automotive. “Using conversational AI, we’ve built a platform that’s
optimized for the Concept-i experience, providing an assistant that
can listen, understand, anticipate, respond and proactively engage
with drivers to meet their needs.”
Dragon Drive will interact with Concept-i drivers through a
combination of its automotive-grade signal enhancement and
acoustics innovation with ambient wake-up, hybrid embedded-cloud
speech recognition, and text-to-speech. In addition, Dragon Drive
utilizes natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language
generation (NLG) to enable users to have an intelligent and
intuitive conversation with the automotive assistant, using their
own words and with responses that mimic natural human speech. NLG
will be showcased for the first time in the Concept-i at CES
2018.
Dragon Drive powers more than 200 million cars on the road today
across more than 40 languages, creating conversational experiences
for Toyota, Audi, BMW, Daimler, Fiat, Ford, GM, Hyundai, SAIC, and
more. To learn more about the ways in which Dragon Drive is
amplifying the intelligence of the connected car, visit Dragon
Drive on nuance.com. To learn more about Concept-i, visit the
Toyota press room. CES attendees can also check our Concept-i in
person at the 2018 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas from
January 9-12, 2018.
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. For more information, please visit
www.nuance.com.
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PressKate HickmanNuance Communications, Inc.Tel:
781-565-4627Email: kathryn.hickman@nuance.com
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