With a driver's attention already stretched thin by telephones and navigation systems, future in-car services like e-mail and stock market reports are likely to elevate the spoken word to the status of a control device, as necessary as the gearshift lever or turn-signal stalk.
Programs for recognizing a few isolated words, such as telephone voice navigation systems, work for almost every user.
This screen is exactly like the one found in the A6 and A8, and can control most media, telephone and navigation functions.
The fisherman's prayer, a paean to the loneliness of being at sea, felt, in its own way, like a beacon to him, and Telephone was his navigation through an ever-expanding network.
The top screen handles infotainment, navigation, telephone, and vehicle settings while the bottom is for climate control and entering text for navigation.
The "luxury touring model," to be debuted this week at the 74th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, is decked out with modern features like anti-lock brakes, keyless ignition, electronic cruise control, a tire pressure monitoring system, and a state of the art "infotainment" system for music, navigation, telephone, and more.
In most well-known commercial applications for speech technology – railway announcements, screen readers, automated telephone services, satellite navigation, and so on – expressiveness (especially when conceived of narrowly as emotional speech) can feel contrived.
You do not learn on your first spin, or even on the second, how to manipulate the "Comand" system -- the screen and buttons that control the stereo, navigation computer, telephone and probably many other things.
Hand-held satellite navigation devices and telephones provide a welcome sense of connectedness.
Of the 55 patients who were offered navigation, the patient navigators were unable to contact 14 (25%) after between eight and eleven attempted telephone calls.
