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Article: Novauris Brings Guidance to iPhone-Toting Tokyo Commuters.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 21, 2009
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Novauris Technologies of Cheltenham, England and Sunnyvale, Calif. and Traffic Gate of Tokyo, Japan announced an iPhone app incorporating speech recognition to provide route guidance on the Tokyo public transportation system (see also Novauris Technologies).
With over 660 stations in its railway and underground network, negotiating the Tokyo public transport system is no easy matter, even for seasoned commuters. Now, speech technology developer Novauris Technologies is bringing route guidance to Japanese travelers equipped with an iPhone. Working with the dominant Japanese Internet advertising company, Traffic Gate (owned by Rakuten, Inc., the largest online ...