“Using conversational AI, we’ve built a platform that’s optimized for the Concept-i experience, providing an assistant that can listen, understand, anticipate, respond and proactively engage with drivers to meet their needs.”ĭragon Drive will interact with Concept-i drivers through a combination of its automotive-grade signal enhancement and acoustics innovation with ambient wake-up, hybrid embedded-cloud speech recognition, and text-to-speech.
That’s why we’re well-poised to support Toyota’s Concept-i, an amazing representation of what the future of automotive will look like,” said Arnd Weil, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Automotive. “We’re laser focused on Dragon Drive innovation that will meet the needs of the connected, automated car of the future. Working with Toyota’s emotion estimation engine, Dragon Drive’s conversational AI can also take a user’s emotional reaction and attention into account to deliver an intelligent conversation with optimal results. Features include voice-controlled restaurant and point of interest search, navigation, Q&A, sports information, and integration with content providers like HERE and Yelp.ĭragon Drive’s conversational AI is powered by contextual reasoning, using knowledge, context of current and past conversations, and awareness of personal preferences to understand and complete complex requests and tasks. Concept-i is being showcased at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and features the latest automotive innovations, including automated technology, emotion detection, and more.ĭragon Drive leverages conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to power Concept-i’s fully customized automotive assistant. (NASDAQ:NUAN) today announced that its Dragon Drive connected car platform powers the automotive assistant in Toyota’s user experience concept vehicle, Toyota Concept-i. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - CES 2018 - Nuance Communications, Inc.