IBM and VoiceBox Technologies Extend Hands-Free Technology to Allow Drivers to Talk to Their XM Satellite Radios and Mobile Phones

IBM and VoiceBox Technologies Extend Hands-Free Technology to Allow Drivers to Talk to Their XM Satellite Radios and Mobile Phones

XM Satellite Radio is going hands-free thanks to IBM and VoiceBox Technologies, Inc., allowing drivers to talk to their radio – and it will respond. IBM and VoiceBox today announced that VoiceBox will integrate IBM’s speech recognition engine, IBM Embedded ViaVoice into its VoiceBox Navigator(TM), the world’s first conversational voice search platform.

VoiceBox enables users to search and navigate information using conversational free form speech. VoiceBox then creates and executes intelligent searches by determining the intent of the user based on the context of the request. Whether users are searching for music and entertainment, asking for driving directions or making a phone call, VoiceBox and IBM’s combined technology will enable users to navigate and control information from mobile devices, accurately and intuitively with conversational dialogue.

The first user of the VoiceBox platform with IBM Embedded ViaVoice is XM Satellite Radio, which offers 160 digital entertainment channels of commercial-free music and premier sports, news, talk and entertainment. The new application allows drivers to search and control XM channels, raise and lower the volume or ask for traffic reports, stock quotes, sports and weather by simply talking to their XM radio.

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