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Spansion offers speech recognition tech for cars

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Carmakers can now introduce new speech package for the cars. The new speech recognition technology is jointly offered by Spansion and Nuance Communications.

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The improved speech recognition technology is based on their software and semiconductors.

Spansion has fine tuned its NOR flash memory chips to make Nuance's software respond faster and better to any command, reports Noel Randewich of Reuters.

Nuance Communications, whose technology powers the Siri voice recognition feature in Apple Inc's iPhone 4S, has already been selling software for car entertainment and navigation systems.

"We take our basic technology, we package it differently, we add microcontroller technology and we add algorithms to it so we can interface quickly with all the Nuance software," says chief executive John Kispert.

He also added that, ''the two companies are shopping their package to manufacturers now. He expects sales of chips through the partnership with Nuance to reach a run rate of between $10 million and $100 million by early 2013.''

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