November 12, 2008
Ford introduces 'speech' engine
This automotive innovation from Ford has no wheels and no doors, but it has a very powerful engine, AOL Autos notes in a review today. Don't bother looking under the hood, the engine behind Ford Motor Company's Sync system is a microchip located in the dash of 21 new cars, trucks, and crossovers. While tiny, the power of this chip is immense. It is what technophiles call a "speech" engine. Running Microsoft software, Sync's speech engine is the key to delivering a fully integrated, voice-activated in-car communications and entertainment system. This means that now when you talk to your car it will really hear you, and then do something constructive. We at AOL Autos have now driven hundreds of miles in Sync-equipped Fords and have found the system easy to set up and use, thus allaying our fears of having to deal with yet another complex and marginally useful road-going infotainment gadget. If you're not an automotive technology guru, you might be thinking, "Cars are already too complicated, the last thing I need is something else to learn how to use that will distract me."
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