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Article: Boom predicted for voice recognition devices; Carmakers pushed to reduce drivers' in-car distractions.(News)
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- Automotive News Europe
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- October 18, 2004
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Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc
Motorists will not have to do as much with their hands by the end of the decade.
Telematics Research Group predicts that 30 million passenger cars - about half the global units - will have voice recognition capability by 2010.
About 8 percent of the world's cars - approximately 4.7 million units - have voice recognition devices now.
"We are on the verge of large scale numbers that will bring [voice recognition systems] down in price," says Phil Magney, president of the US-based telematics consultancy.
Says Arnd Weil, product manager for embedded speech at US-based software maker ScanSoft: "Our focus ...