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Article: Honda to sell speech-recognition navigation system in North America.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2004
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Sep. 17--NEW YORK -- Honda Motor Co. will start marketing in North America from next month new vehicles equipped with a speech-recognition navigation system developed jointly with International Business Machines Corp., the two companies have said.
Honda will be the first automaker to standard-equip automobiles sold in North America with a navigation system that can identify spoken street and city names, according to IBM. In Japan, Honda cars are already equipped with the voice-recognition navigation system.
Honda will offer the new system as standard equipment on the 2005 Acura RL set for launch in October.
The system will recognize more than ...