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  <Title>Linguatronic Product-Level Speech System for Mercedes-Benz Cars</Title>
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8. OUTLOOK
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The scientific community is well aware that speech in cars is the enabling technology to interactively and selectively bring news and information to mobile environments without causing a safety hazard (cf., e.g. ElBoghdady 2000). Yet, we all have seen tides of enthusiasm and reluctance towards the real-life viability of speech technology. With telephony applications now firmly established, any discussion as to whether speech technology is a commercially viable option also for use in vehicles can be abbreviated by pointing at the Linguatronic example. Speech technology is there, and it will grow. More auto makers, but also system-providers like Bosch will soon be out with more complex applications, navigation address entry being the point in question, more cars will have speech control as an option, and, in our area of research, we are pushing the limits of what can be done in research projects both internal and co-operative, e.g. in the DARPA Communicator.</Paragraph>
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