Nuance Announces One-Shot Command Automotive Voice Capabilities in Toyota Entune Multimedia System
Nuance Drives Conversational Voice Interface with New Toyota Entune™
Toyota’s New Multimedia System Application Lets Customers Stay Connected with Nuance’s Innovative One-Shot Voice Technology
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN – News) today announced that its innovative one-shot command automotive voice capabilities power the voice recognition in the new Toyota Entune™ multimedia system announced today at CES. Toyota Entune combines the power of mobile phone applications and Bluetooth to create a richer in-vehicle experience, while helping provide consumers with the ability to stay more safely connected. Customers just download the Entune mobile application and pair a Bluetooth-capable phone with an equipped Toyota vehicle, where they can begin to search, retrieve, play and navigate a variety of personalized content and services, simply by using their voice.
Toyota Entune features Nuance’s intuitive conversational voice capabilities that enable flexible, one-shot voice commands for dialing, navigation destination entry and other features. By integrating Nuance’s natural and intuitive voice technology, Toyota consumers can interact with Entune while keeping their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.
“Today’s mobile consumer always wants to be connected, no matter where they are or what they are doing. With Entune, we are enabling our customers to safely engage a robust multimedia system with industry-leading natural and intuitive voice recognition from Nuance,” said Jon Bucci, vice president of the Advanced Technology Department at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A, Inc.
“The Toyota Entune multimedia system combines Toyota’s automotive innovation with Nuance’s proven and trusted voice technology to deliver a smarter, safer in-car experience for consumers,” said Arnd Weil, vice president and general manager, Nuance Automotive. “Our advancements in conversational voice recognition and one-shot commands make it possible for today’s mobile consumer to quickly and easily find music, get directions and make phone calls, while minimizing dangerous visual and manual distractions.”
Availability
Toyota Entune will be available as an option on select models later in 2011. To learn more, visit Toyota at www.toyota.com or www.toyotanewsroom.com/entune.
Nuance’s automotive solutions, which power the speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities of more than 30 million automobiles and 30 million personal navigation devices from the world’s leading brands, provide a compelling integrated platform for today’s leading auto manufacturers – empowering them to deliver smarter, safer interfaces for engaging today’s embedded and connected in-car systems and content.
About Nuance Automotive
As a leading supplier of speech components to automotive OEMs and vendors, Nuance Communications offers an integrated suite of technologies and services to enable voice-activated dialing, voice destination entry for navigation systems, vehicle command and control, in-vehicle entertainment systems and connected services. The company’s speech recognition and text-to-speech software deliver state-of-the-art performance and a rich set of features and tools tailored for the highly demanding automotive environment.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging 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 information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit: nuance.com.
About Toyota
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. is the marketing, sales, distribution and customer service arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion. Established in 1957, TMS markets products and services through a network of nearly 1,500 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers which sold more than 1.77 million vehicles in 2009. Toyota directly employs nearly 30,000 people in the U.S. and its investment here is currently valued at more than $18 billion.
For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyota.com or www.toyotanewsroom.com/entune
