Toyota and Google Cloud have announced an expanded partnership that brings together Toyota and Lexus next-generation audio multimedia systems and Google Cloud's AI-based speech services.
Expanding the collaboration between Toyota and Google Cloud, the partnership will drive future innovation with the addition of Speech On-Device. This is a new Google Cloud AI product that equips embedded devices with the same AI-based speech recognition and synthesis available in the cloud, regardless of internet connectivity.
A benefit of having voice interactions served locally is allowing drivers to be able to continue using voice commands without obstruction The future vehicle-native Speech On-Device will also enable voice requests to be served directly by vehicles' multimedia system processors, without the need for internet connectivity, to power voice queries in select vehicles. With voice interactions served locally instead of by the cloud, drivers will not have to worry about a tunnel or dead zone affecting voice commands.
With Toyota's next-generation multimedia system in development upon the brand's native platform, vehicle-embedded Speech On-Device will be used as a component of the next-gen Toyota Voice Assistant.
These technologies combined allow voice requests to be served directly by vehicles' multimedia system processors, without the need for internet connectivity, to power voice queries in select vehicles.
Expanding the collaboration between Toyota and Google Cloud, the partnership will drive future innovation with the addition of Speech On-Device. This is a new Google Cloud AI product that equips embedded devices with the same AI-based speech recognition and synthesis available in the cloud, regardless of internet connectivity.
With Toyota's next-generation multimedia system in development upon the brand's native platform, vehicle-embedded Speech On-Device will be used as a component of the next-gen Toyota Voice Assistant.
These technologies combined allow voice requests to be served directly by vehicles' multimedia system processors, without the need for internet connectivity, to power voice queries in select vehicles.
