NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, announced today the availability of voice phonemes for its NAVTEQ map for Mexico and NAVTEQ map for Puerto Rico. This content greatly enhances navigation system functionality for these countries by enabling navigation systems using NAVTEQ data to provide audible guidance using specific street names and administrative areas, as well as the ability to provide speech recognition.
For example, many navigation systems provide generic, audible directions such as "turn right" or "stay to the left". With the integration of voice phonemes into the NAVTEQ map, navigation systems can offer the correct pronunciation of specific spoken directions such as turn left onto Luis Moya Avenue. Additionally, end-users using a navigation system enabled with NAVTEQ Voice are now able to select their destination by speaking the name of that target into the navigation system, rather than entering it manually.
NAVTEQ employs a unique method of transcribing the voice data that includes manually checking all transcriptions. The end result is highly accurate data that can interpret abbreviations, alternate pronunciations and other variants.
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