CES Video: Voice-Controlled Radio and GPS

I got a break from the long lines for taxis and shuttle buses at this year's CES show by catching a ride with VoiceBox Technologies co-founder Tom Freeman, who demonstrated the company's voice-recognition technology for automobiles.

Watch and listen for yourself as Freeman asks an XM satellite radio to find a station by genre, and to tell him the score of a recent football game. Then he uses his voice to retrieve spoken driving directions and other navigation information from an in-car GPS device.

Note that for the demo, Freeman uses a Samsung Q1 UMPC, but he told me that, by next December, his company's voice technology will be incorporated in standard-size GPS products and car radios from manufacturers yet to be announced.

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