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Monday, July 16th 2012 - 09:45 CEST - Comments: 0

D ragon Drive! Messaging for BMW navigation - Nuance Communications Inc. announced that BMW will be making Dragon Drive! Messaging for BMW navigation available in the new 2012 BMW 7 Series, BMW 3 Series Touring and BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid vehicles, with additional models to follow. Dragon Drive! Messaging is a new BMW ConnectedDrive feature as part of the latest generation of BMW Navigation system Professional. Unveiled in May, Dragon Drive! Messaging for BMW navigation is Nuance’s new automotive grade connected car service that lets people speak emails and text messages.

 

Dragon Drive! Messaging

The new BMW 7 Series 2012 will be the first car ever to feature Dragon Drive! Messaging, hitting the market in July 2012, with the BMW 3 Series Touring and BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid following later this year. Dragon Drive! Messaging for BMW navigation delivers a fully-integrated mobile assistant messaging experience that lets drivers speak, listen, edit and respond to text messages and emails - keeping their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. Drivers can speak simple commands to format e-mails by adding new lines, paragraphs, and speaking punctuation and other format commands.

 

 

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"People want to connect with family, friends, and colleagues while they're on the road, but without the dangerous distractions posed by manually engaging handheld devices," said Arnd Weil, vice president and general manager, automotive, Nuance. "By integrating Dragon Drive! Messaging into the BMW navigation itself, BMW and Nuance are delivering a smarter, safer way to communicate." Dragon Drive! Messaging for BMW navigation is available as part of Nuance's Dragon Drive! highly-specialized hybrid automotive-grade platform that fully harnesses Nuance's deep experience and research in connected and embedded natural language understanding voice technologies. Drivers can interact naturally with their car, minimizing manual and visual distractions.

 

 

Dragon Drive messaging for BMW navigation systems

In addition to the dictation functionality, the new BMW Navigation system Professional also features natural command and control for almost all functions, powered by Nuance. Drivers can quickly and easily speak one-shot commands for phone calls and navigation, such as "Call John Miller on Mobile" or "Navigate to 100 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts." Dragon Drive! Messaging will be available in BMW vehicles starting in July 2012 in six different languages, including US and UK English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. BMW buyers can test Dragon Drive Messaging for BMW navigation free for 60 days. Once the trial period expires, Dragon Drive! Messaging for BMW navigation will be available as a Nuance service with annual renewal option.

 

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