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Voice Assistants in the Car
Volker Springer
Senior Project Manager, U.S., Elektrobit
November 8, 2018
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Voice Assistants in the Car
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▪ Fully voice controlled
▪ Natural Language Understanding Technologies
▪ A somewhat autonomous driving vehicle
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Attendant and medical dictation systems
Very limited vocabulary
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Personalization of assistants
Mostly speaker dependent – “voice tags”
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Command and Control – Scripted Commands
Handcrafted “dialogs” – resembling haptic UI
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Voice systems became humanized
Vocabulary not limited to control of device
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
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C&C now in use for many car functions
Many direct speech actions (intents)
But still deeply synced with rest of UI
Embedded systems NLU, cloud supporting
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Cloud based software platforms
B2B-service “eco system” -music, weather, anything …
Centralized aggregation of speech data
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Source: Forbes
Natural Language
Generation
Voice Assistants in the Car
Top Five Technologies for AI
Speech Recognition
Virtual Assistants Biometrics Text Analytics and NLP
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Audio processing improved
Microphone arrays
Source separation, Noise suppression
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Text to Speech also Evolved Dramatically
Natural and Intelligible:
Emotions, Hesitations…
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Future of Assistants…
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Future of the car? Fleet or owned?
Increased connectivity (IoT device)
Offline assistance required?
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Bring Your Own Device Embedded into car SW
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Existing HMIs – how to test (remote) AI
Localization: >30 languages with assistants
Non-native dialects & voice-disabled people
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EB's UX Product Portfolio
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EB GUIDE Studio &
Target Framework
EB GUIDE Speech Extension & Target
Framework
EB arware EB Cockpit Software Platform
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Leveraging Technology to Drive the Future
Haptic input: knobs & touch
Haptic input: gesture
Augmented reality:keep your eyes on the road
Biometry: emotion & sentiment detection; situation awareness
Other New Technologies
ASR & TTS
NLU
Cloud Systems
Voice Assistants
Personal Assistants
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Voice Assistants in the Car
Volker Springer
Senior Project Manager, U.S., Elektrobit
© Elektrobit (EB) 2018