In a technology agreement between IBM & Pioneer Europe, Inc, the ViaVoice software has been licensed to Pioneer Europe by IBM. The voice recognition software will be used in hands-free GPS navigation systems, which let drivers keep their hands on their steering wheels. The Embedded ViaVoice software, designed in IBM Research Labs, is capable enough to be aware of a totality of 14 languages, and has beforehand been made use in personal digital assistants, smart phones and additional automobile systems.
Pioneer will keep on making use of the technology in its latest AVIC-HD1BT console, which was launched on Wednesday and is able to be deployed on the dashboard of the majority of cars. Different models of the AVIC, which means”Audio, Video, Information and Communication” have been brought forth for Europe and North America.
GPS navigation is speedily going up, getting into an assortment of latest niches, a few of them, services like that finds out whereabouts of kids, contentious. IBM expects that the Embedded ViaVoice software in Pioneer’s AVIC-HD1BT is going to bring about hands-free, voice-activated GPS increasingly extensive in the mainstream automobile market instead of exclusively the domain of luxury cars.
