BMW is the First Auto Producer to Include Monster Drive! Texting, Allowing a More intelligent, More User-friendly Way to Send and Obtain E-mails and Written text Information behind the Wheel
Nuance Marketing and sales communications Inc. NUAN -0.79% today declared that BMW will be making Monster Drive! Texting available in the new 2012 BMW 7 Sequence, BMW 3 Sequence Traveling and BMW 3 Sequence ActiveHybrid automobiles, with additional designs to follow. Monster Drive! Texting is a new BMW ConnectedDrive function as aspect of the newest creation of BMW Routing program Expert. Revealed in May, Monster Drive! Texting is Nuance's new automotive-grade linked car service that allows individuals talk electronic emails and text messages.
The 2012 BMW 7 Sequence will be the first car ever to function Monster Drive! Texting, reaching the market in September 2012, with the BMW 3 Sequence Traveling and BMW 3 Sequence ActiveHybrid following later this year. Monster Drive! Texting provides a fully-integrated cellular associate messaging encounter that allows individuals talk, pay attention, modify and react to text messages and electronic emails - keeping their hands on the rim and eyes on the road. Drivers can talk simple orders to structure e-mails by including new lines, sentences, and discussing punctuation and other structure orders.
"People want to hook up with family, friends, and co-workers while they're on the road, but without the risky disruptions presented by personally interesting portable gadgets," said Arnd Weil, v. p. and gm, automobile, Nuance. "By developing Monster Drive! Texting into the car itself, BMW and Nuance are providing a smarter, more secure way to hook up."
Dragon Drive! Texting is available as aspect of Nuance's Monster Drive! highly-specialized multiple automotive-grade foundation that completely uses Nuance's deep encounter and research in linked and included organic language understanding speech systems. Drivers can communicate normally with their car, reducing guide and visible disruptions.
In addition to the dictation performance, the new BMW Routing program Expert also features organic control and control for almost all features, operated by Nuance. Drivers can quickly talk one-shot orders for telephone calling and navigation, such as "Call Bob Burns on Mobile" or "Navigate to 100 Boylston Street in Birkenstock boston, Birkenstock boston."
Availability
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 free for 60 days. Once the trial period expires, Dragon Drive! Messaging will be available as a Nuance service with annual renewal option. To learn more about Dragon Drive! Messaging for BMW, visit www.nuance.com/bmw . To find a list of compatible devices for BMW ConnectedDrive supporting Dragon Drive! Messaging, visit www.bmw.com/bluetooth .Dragon Drive! is a part of Nuance's broad Dragon portfolio, including Dragon NaturallySpeaking, 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.com and www.nuancemobilelife.com .