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Time is right for voice recognition
Mar. 24, 2010
Diane Jermyn
Read More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...s-right-for-voice-recognition/article1509407/
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Voice on the Go has great market timing but it wasn't by chance. The founding employees of the Toronto-based company saw the need coming for their product – an in-car system that enables a driver to e-mail, text, Facebook, Tweet and more while driving, hands-free and by voice on any mobile phone – and pounced on it as a killer idea. “We foresaw that driving legislation would become more pervasive,†says John McLeod, chief executive officer of Voice on the Go, noting that laws prohibiting texting with handheld devices while driving have passed in several provinces.
- “Like drinking and driving, texting and driving was going to become a larger issue in legislative minds as well as people's minds. The only way around it was by using your voice. We all thought the voice space would explode and that the time would be right where interacting by voice hands-free while driving would be the way of the future. “Now that it's in the market, the time is right because there's a lot of interest in distracted driving and the laws are coming into place. People are aware about texting and driving so our growth has just been explosive.â€
Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and most recently Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island have legislation banning texting with handheld devices while driving.
As well, many states in the United States and most European Union member countries have similar bans. Exceptions are generally made for hands-free devices, however some groups, such as the Canadian Automobile Association, want to expand the ban to include hands-free devices which they consider just as distracting to drivers as hand-held cellphones. The use of either hand-held or hands-free devices while driving is already illegal in Japan, Israel, Portugal and Singapore. Currently, no U.S. state completely bans both hand-held and hands-free cellphones.
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Mar. 24, 2010
Diane Jermyn
Read More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...s-right-for-voice-recognition/article1509407/
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Voice on the Go has great market timing but it wasn't by chance. The founding employees of the Toronto-based company saw the need coming for their product – an in-car system that enables a driver to e-mail, text, Facebook, Tweet and more while driving, hands-free and by voice on any mobile phone – and pounced on it as a killer idea. “We foresaw that driving legislation would become more pervasive,†says John McLeod, chief executive officer of Voice on the Go, noting that laws prohibiting texting with handheld devices while driving have passed in several provinces.
- “Like drinking and driving, texting and driving was going to become a larger issue in legislative minds as well as people's minds. The only way around it was by using your voice. We all thought the voice space would explode and that the time would be right where interacting by voice hands-free while driving would be the way of the future. “Now that it's in the market, the time is right because there's a lot of interest in distracted driving and the laws are coming into place. People are aware about texting and driving so our growth has just been explosive.â€
Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and most recently Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island have legislation banning texting with handheld devices while driving.
As well, many states in the United States and most European Union member countries have similar bans. Exceptions are generally made for hands-free devices, however some groups, such as the Canadian Automobile Association, want to expand the ban to include hands-free devices which they consider just as distracting to drivers as hand-held cellphones. The use of either hand-held or hands-free devices while driving is already illegal in Japan, Israel, Portugal and Singapore. Currently, no U.S. state completely bans both hand-held and hands-free cellphones.
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