Gone are the days when you feared getting distracted from looking at your mobile screen and hoping you would not get into an accident as you searched for a location. With the help of in-car speech recognition, you can now make your journey safer and more efficient with the help of voice technology.
Much of the automotive industry has realized the piles of stress linked to on-road mobile phones as more and more features get incorporated in the technology by the day. To make it easier to manage on the road, voice recognition in vehicles has become a much integral part of a great part of the population living in metropolitan areas.
Now texting on the road or using Google Maps to find out a location is no longer an obstacle to a safer and smoother drive, all thanks to in-car speech recognition technology – keep your eyes on the road and let technology handle your tasks.
In-Car Speech Recognition trends – two tech giants in the market
A lot of tech industries are taking the auto voice recognition game to the next level and making innovative ways to provide a more user-friendly experience than their competitors. Although the number is radically increasing of such competitors, our favorites have to be Apple and Android for many reasons.
- CarPlay By Apple
Apple has come up with its in-car speech recognition service known as the CarPlay that focuses on building a touch-screen display for your car using iOS software. Currently, the news on the front line has been revolving about Apple launching Apple and Siri Maps to its developers.
Due to this technology, the users of Apple CarPlay will be able to send texts through WhatsApp, make phone calls using Skype, or place a hotel reservation using the Apple Map, all by using voice recognition technology.
- Android Auto
Android, with its huge capacity and uphold in the tech market, is the talk of the town for all the good reasons: it’s beyond impressive innovations – even in the in-car speech recognition field. Now, Android users can get a hold of their phone screens while driving without touching it.
You can connect your Android smartphone using a USB cable and then pair it with Bluetooth to operate different functions like making phone calls.
Auto Voice Recognition: what has improved?
Discoveries and improving voice-activated technology has changed the way voice-enabled smart assistants work, especially in the auto world.
- User-Friendliness is the prime focus: Not only you get to see a lot of leverage revolving around the data, location, and navigation routes, but now there comes more user-friendliness considering the needs of the user.
For example, with the help of this technology, you can make the voice assistant help you find any fuel stations around you through navigating your car using the map – all without even entering the address of your current location.
- Improved wireless Voice Technology: The innovations in the voice recognition sector in the vehicles have changed the way you travel from point A to B, thanks to the increasing improvement in the wireless communications integrated into the cars and more powerful microphone and computing system than before. It is especially true for unseen and long routes that have become less strange and hectic than before as you use different features of the technology.
For example, Amazon has come up with devices having advanced characteristics for voice recognition like vibration and harshness. This lets the communication occur in a perfectly smooth way with minimum disruptions. The microphones come with the ability to discriminate on who is speaking on the mic and determine what is to be prioritized.
- Better connectivity: Although connectivity is a crucial factor, especially in driving long routes where weak signals can be a big problem for many drivers out there, the companies are looking for more ways to improve the signal quality caught by the smartphones.
Local voice processing, cloud computing, and back-ups have played their roles in increasing user-friendliness in voice recognition in vehicles for some time.
Automotive industry and Speech Recognition
With more and more cell towers present and working in recent times, all vehicles on the roads can exceedingly leverage them. For instance, General Motors has developed hardware in virtually all of the company cars for more than nine years. It has currently introduced a 4G LTE modem in its upcoming vehicles for better user experience.
Ford also did not sit back and was able to install LTE tech into all of its new products by the end of the year 2019 in all of North America. We can say that almost all of the premium names in the automotive industry have successfully penetrated better technologies relating to connectivity and user-friendliness in all of their new vehicles, and mainstream producers are following their footsteps.
According to a study by Navigant, around 90 percent of all automotive sectors will integrate built-in data connections in the vehicles that will allow better in-car speech recognition in the coming four to five years. We can expect 5G cars with increased voice recognition potential by the end of the year 2022.
Future of Voice Recognition
By the end of 2028, it is projected that almost all automobiles across the globe will come up with in-built voice assistants. Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Nuance, along with other names in the tech world, are trying their best to make it to the top in the automotive industry and users for the default choice as a voice assistant.
Currently, Google and Amazon are projecting their capacities to introduce more user-friendly tech in the sector; however, the penetration rate is still slow. The brand that comes the fastest will win, but we can definitely say one thing for sure, and that's speech recognition being the future of the auto industry.
