News Release from: ScanSoft United Kingdom
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 March 2004
Navigation software embeds speech recognition
Navigon has selected VoCon 3200 Embedded Development System 2.0 to speech-enable MobileNavigator 4, the latest release of its award winning navigation software.
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Navigon has selected VoCon 3200 Embedded Development System 2.0 to speech-enable MobileNavigator 4, the latest release of its award winning navigation software. VoCon 3200 Embedded Development System 2.0 is a complete development suite for adding speech recognition to a variety of automotive, mobile and other embedded or PC-based applications. MobileNavigator software for PDA devices will be available as a modular package system consisting of software and map data for over 21 countries in Europe and commercialised with the PDA brand Medion.
"Integrating speech recognition into MobileNavigator was a logical next step for our product.
We will enable users to get comfortable and safe mobility and hands-free access to standard directions such as home, work or airport by entering the destination by voice", said Andreas Westhoff, Head of Products at Navigon.
"ScanSoft has delivered a solution of outstanding quality and their engineering team has shown thorough commitment for our project and deadlines".
With more than 100,000 units sold, Navigon's MobileNavigator products are recognised for their innovative features and exceptional performance.
The new program is available as a Bluetooth variant with or without automatic traffic jam avoidance and provides Navtech map data for over 21 European countries.
A completely revised user interface equipped with many new features is at the heart of the MobileNavigator 4 and makes the system easier, more intuitive and faster to use.
ScanSoft's speech recognition will enable fast and easy access to navigation data and delivers the benefits of hands-free, eyes-free interaction.
"We are delighted to be selected by Navigon to speech-enable its popular MobileNavigator.
Using voice commands instead of a stylus when retrieving information from a PDA vastly increases convenience, efficiency and safety", said Peter Hauser, Senior Vice President and General Manager for ScanSoft International.
"MobileNavigator with speech recognition proves that major accuracy improvements in ASR lead to broader acceptance of speech technology and accelerate the drive for consumer and corporate applications".
The VoCon 3200 speech recognition engine has been designed to further streamline the interface between people and technology.
This latest version features extensive improvements in overall accuracy, significant memory and CPU savings and new tools to accelerate the development of highly accurate and effective speech applications.
VoCon 3200 has been tuned to provide superior functionality, accuracy and performance for mobile and automotive applications, including voice activated dialling (VAD) and voice destination entry (VDE).
VoCon 3200 Embedded Development System 2.0 includes libraries for WinCE v4.2 and PocketPC 2003 to allow an easy integration into PDA-based applications and comes with an extensive API description, sample program code and demo applications.
Navigon's MobileNavigator makes use of an optimised speaker-dependent recognition algorithm implemented in VoCon 3200 2.0.
Users are now able to add a speaker dependent-voice tag to a destination.
VoCon 3200 fully supports training the voice tags in a quiet environment or in a stopped car and entering a voice destination in a noisy environment, ie while driving.
Rather than pure pattern recognition VoCon 3200 uses the existing noise-robust acoustic models even for the speaker-dependent user words and makes use of ScanSoft's huge automotive speech databases recorded in car environments covering a wide range of different car models and driving conditions.
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