![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, on September 22, Nuance Communications let it be known that the voice rendering of navigational advice in the Waze applications for both Android and iOS-based devices was using a cloud-based instantiation of its flagship text-to-speech rendering software called Vocalizer Network as invoked from Nuance Vocalizer Studio. As noted in this post in the company’s “By the Waze” blog, TTS-based driving instructions have been a feature of the “Commuting Widget” available for download from the Android Marketplace. True to their word, the engineers at Waze have steadily added to the app’s voice-based features and functions. At the time, we noted that speech input and output would be a necessity for a truly “hands-free/eyes forward” navigational app for smartphones. In February (2011) we posted this note about speech enabling Waze, the crowdsourced traffic reporting app for smartphones.
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