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Nuance connected services for Audi 8

Nuance Communications is supplying its cloud-based Dragon Drive speech recognition connected car platform to provide conversational and connected car services for the Audi 8. Dragon Drive uses natural language and text-to-speech to understand and respond to the driver’s commands.
December 21, 2017 Read time: 1 min
Nuance Communications is supplying its cloud-based Dragon Drive speech recognition connected car platform to provide conversational and connected car services for the Audi 8. Dragon Drive uses natural language and text-to-speech to understand and respond to the driver’s commands.


Connected services include weather and parking information, calendars and notes and is available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, Chinese and Korean with message dictation in Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish.

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