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Nuance’s Dragon Drive Voice-Enables Hyundai’s Next-Generation
Connected Car
Hyundai Showcases its Connected Car Prototype at CES, Bringing Intelligent,
Conversational In-Car Connectivity to the Mass Consumer Market
Burlington, Mass. and Las Vegas, CES 2013 – January 8, 2013 – Nuance Communications
Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) and Hyundai announced today the development of a new voice-enabled
infotainment system with Nuance’s automotive-grade Dragon Drive platform. Hyundai’s vision
for its next-generation connected cars is on display at the 2013 International Consumer
Electronics Show in in the North Hall, Booth 315.
Hyundai’s new infotainment system deeply integrates Nuance’s Dragon Drive natural language
understanding automotive voice platform to showcase the power of conversational interfaces as
part of a safer, smarter in-car experience. Hyundai’s next-generation of cars will include natural
language voice-enabled phone dialing, message dictation, destination entry – by address or point
of interest – and searching for music both in the car or streaming from online music services. For
example, people can say:
“Call my brother on his mobile”;
“Send a text message to my wife: I’ll grab the milk on the way home”;
“Get directions to Legal Harborside on the Waterfront in Boston;”
“Play a song by Taylor Swift”.
Hyundai is also among the first automakers to introduce “Welcome Mode,” leveraging Nuance’s
personal assistant capabilities designed for the connected car. Drivers are greeted with a personal
message when they enter the car, along with personalized greeting using Nuance’s text-tospeech. This greeting includes updated weather forecast at the user’s location, a personal playlist,
or even directions based on a user profile supplied by Hyundai.
“Consumers expect to be connected to people and content no matter where they are. And when
they are behind the wheel, it’s our responsibility to balance that demand with features that
minimize the potential for driver distraction,” said Michael O’Brien, vice president of Product
and Corporate Planning at Hyundai Motor America. “Hyundai is committed to stay at the
forefront of innovation, and by leveraging Nuance’s Dragon Drive platform for our nextgeneration infotainment systems, we’ll be able to bring the broad consumer market smart,
innovative and intuitive experiences powered by voice.”
“People have deep and personal connections to their devices and the content they offer – their incar experiences shouldn’t be any different,” said Arnd Weil, vice president and general manager,
automotive, Nuance Mobile. “Hyundai’s connected car prototype demonstrates the flexibility
and broad capabilities of our Dragon Drive platform, where Nuance’s voice technologies deliver
an intelligent, conversational exchange between people and their cars to keep them connected no
matter where life’s journey brings them.”
Dragon Drive is Nuance’s automotive-grade platform that fully harnesses Nuance’s deep
expertise and research in natural language understanding voice technologies to deliver connected
and embedded capabilities such as voice dialing, message dictation, navigation, local business
search and music search. The result is a smarter, safer in-car experience that lets drivers keep
their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.
Dragon Drive is a part of Nuance’s broad Dragon portfolio, including Dragon
NaturallySpeaking, Dragon Dictate for Mac, Dragon Voice Assistant, Dragon Mobile Assistant,
Dragon Dictation, Dragon Go!, Dragon TV and Dragon ID, all humanizing the way people
engage their phones, tablets, TVs, cars and computers – just by using their voice. To learn more
about all that Nuance’s Dragon portfolio has to offer, visit www.nuance.comand
www.nuancemobilelife.com.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language
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
devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience
Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
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The statements in this press release relating to future plans or future events or service, are
forward-looking statements which are subject to specific risks and uncertainties. These could
involve particular market trends, competition factors and other risks described in the documents
submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual results, events and
services may vary significantly from the forecasts. The reader is warned not to rely on these
forward- looking statements without reservation, since these are simply reflections of the current
situation.
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