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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Mobile navigation software gains voice control

Navigon GmbH has added voice control to its mobile navigation software package for Pocket PCs. In addition, Mobile Navigator 5 boasts a completely revised user interface and many new features that make the system easier, more intuitive, and faster to use, according to the company.

The recognizer is an embedded speaker-dependent technology (VoCon 3200) from ScanSoft. Several mobile phone-based GPS navigation products have used speech recognition (via a POTS voice call to a network-based speech server) to enter the destination address, and others a human-in-the-loop call center. The fact that this solution uses embedded speech leads me to believe its multimodal, which would make for a clean UI. Anybody more familiar with the soon to be released Navigon app?

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