VoiceBox, Toyota tie up to deliver in-car voice technology innovations

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VoiceBox Technologies Inc, the award winning innovator of Personal Assistant Voice technology has entered into a strategic agreement with Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc to develop innovative in-car voice products and capabilities.

Toyota is an industry-pioneering adopter of voice technology and began to deploy VoiceBox for advanced voice capabilities in the 2009 Lexus RX and more recently in Toyota’s award winning Entune TM multimedia system.

Under the terms of this multi-year agreement, Toyota and VoiceBox will deliver in-car voice innovations exclusive to Toyota and Lexus brands. In addition, VoiceBox is opening an office in Japan to catalyze these initiatives, and expanding its engineering effort dedicated to research, prototyping, as well as market validation and user studies.

VoiceBox’s patented technology determines context and intent from free form speech to dynamically accommodate a request. These capabilities allow VoiceBox to develop compelling Personal Assistant applications for its customers in automotive, personal navigation, computer/tablets and smart TV markets.

“We are excited to work with Toyota to develop innovative in-car voice products and capabilities. Our new presence in Japan will allow us to more effectively serve these efforts,” said Mike Kennewick, VoiceBox Technologies CEO.

“At Toyota we feel advanced voice technology, that uses not just words but context, is key to helping our customers enjoy their vehicles in fun and intuitive ways,” said Jim Pisz, Corporate Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.