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Nuance's Dragon Drive Powers the Voice Interface of SAIC's Connected Car Roewe RX5Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Dragon Drive connected car voice and content platform powers China's Roewe RX5 connected infotainment system, developed by a joint venture of SAIC Motor Corp., one of China's leading car manufacturers and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China's e-commerce giant. The conversational voice interface supporting Mandarin Chinese in the new Roewe RX5 integrates Dragon Drive's hybrid embedded-cloud voice recognition and natural language understanding (NLU) built on Deep Neural Networks to drive an incredibly accurate and fast voice experience. Dragon Drive also brings speech signal enhancement an text-to-speech, delivering a system that listens, understands and responds in a more intuitive and intelligent manner, ultimately minimizing driver distractions. The Roewe RX5 offers a number of infotainment and in-car service enhancements including:
"We've worked closely with SAIC (News - Alert) to deeply integrate our Dragon Drive platform to deliver an intuitive experience for the Roewe RX5, with incredibly high accuracy, speed and ease of use that exceeds China's consumer expectations of the connected car. It will undoubtedly change the landscape of the automotive ecosystem in the region," said Arnd Weil, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance (News - Alert) Automotive. Dragon Drive offers a level of user experience unmatched by aftermarket third party mobile phone solutions or solutions relying on cloud-based speech technology alone. Nuance's unique hybrid voice capabilities provide drivers with a safer, smarter way to access apps and services, across more than 40 different languages.
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