Recent Posts by Fatima
BMW Drivers Move Ahead with Dragon Drive! Messaging
Posted July 9, 2012 at 9:21 am, by Fatima Vital, Director, Automotive Marketing, Nuance
Picture this – you’re driving home on a beautiful, warm summer evening and you suddenly decide it would be a great night for a spontaneous get together. You can simply dictate: “Hi! Fancy a picnic by the river today at 6:30? I’ll bring the salad. Who can bring the wine?” Send it to your best friends and you’re ready to enjoy the evening! Or, it’s the end of the sales quarter, you just closed a fantastic deal that you’ve been working on for months and are driving home. Dictate a quick email to share the good news with your boss and your colleagues even before you get to the office. BMW drivers can now get things done on the road,… read more
Nuance Unveils Dragon Drive!
Posted May 22, 2012 at 7:51 am, by Fatima Vital, Director, Automotive Marketing, Nuance
Consumers crave constant connectivity – anytime, anywhere – including behind the wheel. But engaging that content in an intelligent, intuitive way is critical. Enter Dragon Drive! Dragon Drive! is Nuance’s new automotive-grade natural-language voice platform created and designed for the connected car, providing automakers and suppliers the ability to bring eyes-free, hands-free message dictation and direct access to content, music and navigation just by speaking and all powered by Dragon. Among the most exciting services made possible by Dragon Drive! is messaging, and is the first in a variety of capabilities to hit the market. Featuring the same technology found in Dragon Dictation, drivers can have a conversational mobile assistant messaging experience that lets them speak, listen and respond to text messages… read more
Quo vadis? The Need for Multilingual Navigation
Posted March 1, 2012 at 8:20 pm, by Fatima Vital, Director, Automotive Marketing, Nuance
Did you know that in 2010 Germans made almost 29 million trips to foreign countries by car? Approximately 7.7 million of these trips were to Austria and 4.8 million to Italy but only about 600 thousand to Spain. You might ask yourself ‘Who cares?’ Well, Nuance cares. In order to develop voice solutions that really meet car drivers’ needs, Nuance continuously conducts studies and surveys analyzing car drivers’ behavior, expectations and preferences. One of our recent studies looks into drivers’ needs for multilingual navigation. It’s based on interviews with 40.000 car drivers from 33 European countries. If you’re interested in learning more about the study and multilingual navigation solutions, join us at the Nuance Automotive Forum Europe 2012, taking place… read more
