MapmyIndia to offer voiced-based GPS navigators
The devices, which are expected to be available in 2011, will support English and Hindi languages initially, with more Indian regional languages to follow.
By ET Online | Updated:
New Delhi: MapmyIndia, a leading player in maps, GPS navigation and location-based services, has announced a seven-year strategic partnership with Nuance Communications to offer street level turn-by-turn voice navigation on its next-generation navigation devices. For the first time in India, MapmyIndia will offer GPS navigators that give voice guidance with accurate pronunciation of Indian street and road names. Under the alliance, MapmyIndia’s new navigation devices will be equipped with Nuance Communications’ Vocalizer for Automotive - the industry leading text-to-speech engine for more accurate voice guidance.
Nuance’s Vocalizer for Automotive will be fine-tuned and enhanced by MapmyIndia to offer, for the first time in India, accurate pronunciations of Indian street names and points of interests across 1200 cities in India. The devices, which are expected to be available within 2011, will support English and Hindi languages initially, with more Indian regional languages to follow.
“MapmyIndia is very proud to partner with Nuance Communications text-to-speech (TTS) engine for our privileged consumers in India. MapmyIndia with its regional team is using Nuance tools to create phonetic database with localized accents of street names, landmarks for different parts of India,” said Rakesh Verma, managing director, CE Info Systems (P) Ltd.
“Nuance Communications is the global leader in voice based navigation systems for map providers and automobile manufacturers and we are extremely happy to partner with MapmyIndia in bringing Nuance’s expertise and technology to India,” said Sunny Rao, managing director, India and South East Asia, Nuance Communications. “Together with MapmyIndia, we hope to take navigation systems in India to the next level and bring ease-of-use and convenience through accurate voice guidance for Indian vehicle owners,” he said.
Nuance’s automotive solutions power the speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities of more than 30 million automobiles and 30 million personal navigation devices from the world’s leading brands. Vocalizer for Automotive is a total speech output solution for a wide range of automotive applications. Vocalizer combines a state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) engine, tools and services for enabling applications to handle speech output tasks in an automotive environment.
Nuance’s Vocalizer for Automotive will be fine-tuned and enhanced by MapmyIndia to offer, for the first time in India, accurate pronunciations of Indian street names and points of interests across 1200 cities in India. The devices, which are expected to be available within 2011, will support English and Hindi languages initially, with more Indian regional languages to follow.
“MapmyIndia is very proud to partner with Nuance Communications text-to-speech (TTS) engine for our privileged consumers in India. MapmyIndia with its regional team is using Nuance tools to create phonetic database with localized accents of street names, landmarks for different parts of India,” said Rakesh Verma, managing director, CE Info Systems (P) Ltd.
“Nuance Communications is the global leader in voice based navigation systems for map providers and automobile manufacturers and we are extremely happy to partner with MapmyIndia in bringing Nuance’s expertise and technology to India,” said Sunny Rao, managing director, India and South East Asia, Nuance Communications. “Together with MapmyIndia, we hope to take navigation systems in India to the next level and bring ease-of-use and convenience through accurate voice guidance for Indian vehicle owners,” he said.
Nuance’s automotive solutions power the speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities of more than 30 million automobiles and 30 million personal navigation devices from the world’s leading brands. Vocalizer for Automotive is a total speech output solution for a wide range of automotive applications. Vocalizer combines a state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) engine, tools and services for enabling applications to handle speech output tasks in an automotive environment.
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