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Microsoft/Ford create Wireless Voice Activated Car Entertain/Communication Center (VIDEO)
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They call it “Sync” and it’s supposed to work with most Bluetooth-enabled media players and phones. Sync will be rolling out this fall on 12 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury model cars. Syc is capable of reading announcing and reading incoming text messages out loud and the $395 option won’t break your budget.  I've never been a big fan of electronic entertainment gadgets. It's probably because my learning curve peaks at an eight-track tape player. So when I was invited to a presentation of Ford's new Sync, I thought to myself: “The things I do for my readers.” What I should have said was: “Man … where have I been all my life?!!”
Sync is a Ford-exclusive technology based on Microsoft Auto software. It's an on-board computer platform loaded with software that provides consumers the ability to bring digital media players such as iPods, Microsoft Zunes and other MP3 players, along with Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones into their vehicles and operate all of them via voice commands or with the vehicle's steering wheel or radio controls.
Names and numbers from your mobile phone book are automatically synchronized, so to place a call to anyone in your book, you simply say “Call” followed by the person's name. Similarly you can use your voice to select an artist, genre, album or even a specific song from your music library. In case you develop laryngitis, you can use the steering wheel buttons.
(searchchicago.suntimes)Source: inventorspot Via: searchchicago.suntimes |
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