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Nuance Communications Inc. and TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) announced about the development of the speech-enabled mobile navigation system for mobile phones at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The Nuance Mobile Navigation Service Package will enhance the TCS navigator with any speaker-independent voice destination entry application. The platform filers ‘um’ and ‘ah’ type utterances and gives accurate recognition and responses. It allows users to experience hands-free with easy, fast and safe way to enter address information. The Nuance Mobile Speech Platform offers J2ME, BREW, Symbian and Windows Mobile application developers. It automatically improves the usability of mobile search applications like content download, directory services and navigation through its natural text-to-speech capability. According to senior vice president and chief technology officer, TCS, Drew Morin, the voice destination provides a hands-free user experience and it offers subscribers to easily access information.


 
 
 

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has partnered with Nuance Communications, speech software vendor to create a speech-enabled mobile navigation system for mobile phones. TCS’s "Navigator" is the first mobile phone navigation system, which will enable users to enter destinations by voice. Nuance’s Mobile Navigation Service Package will offer TCS navigator speaker-independent voice destination entry application. Navigator automatically generates an optimal route based on real traffic conditions and suggests alternative routes. It will automatically update the travel time and time of arrival based on current conditions. It will run on Windows Mobile, J2ME, BREW, and Symbian platforms. According to Michael Thompson, vice president of telco, search and communications at Nuance, TCS Navigators users can take benefit from Nuance’s unique technology, which will enable extremely large address to use with accurate rates.