BMW announced new features for its 2014 6-series model today, including an advanced voice-recognition system that can take dictation from the driver and send out an e-mail or text.

BMW will offer this special edition of the 2014 6-series, called the Frozen Brilliant White Convertible.

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The tech arms race between BMW and Audi is yielding some amazing cars, such as the Audi S7 we recently reviewed. BMW fights back with its newly announced 2014 6-series, featuring revised cabin electronics that will not only take dictation and send out e-mails for the driver, but also debuts a new digital instrument cluster.

In Comfort mode, the new digital instrument cluster assumes a traditional look.

(Credit: BMW)

The instrument cluster turns red in Sport mode.

(Credit: BMW)

BMW touted the new voice-recognition system for the 6-series in a press release today, noting its simplified voice commands and control over most cabin tech features. The new system will let drivers activate a dictation mode, having the car transcribe e-mails and text messages. The car reads out the resulting text and includes voice controls for making simple edits. The driver can send the text to anyone in her paired phone’s contact list through e-mail or text message.

The new 6-series also lets owners pair two phones at a time, a feature useful for couples. The system makes one shared contact list from the two phone accessible through voice command or with BMW’s iDrive system.

A special edition of the 6-series, the Frozen Brilliant White Convertible, comes out in early May, and will be the first BMW in the U.S. to feature the Dynamic Digital Instrument Cluster. This new instrument cluster from BMW is completely virtual, showing virtual gauges on an LCD. The type of gauges and the aesthetic design changes based on the car’s driving mode.

The 2014 6-series will be offered in coupe and convertible forms, and as the four door Gran Coupe. M6 versions will come out with a no-cost option for a six-speed manual transmission. BMW designed the manual transmission to automatically match engine speed for seamless shifts, although it turns off rev-matching in Sport Plus mode.

See more at the original blog: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57576173-48/new-bmw-6-series-takes-dictation-shows-virtual-gauges/

Well from our research, we found out that no U.S. President’s have ever been a doctor.  We believe this to be true for a good reason-they didn’t have Dragon Medical Practice Edition around to turn their spoken words into text.

Maybe if William Henry Harrison, the only U.S. President to study medicine had Dragon Medical Practice Edition back then he would of continued with medical school and escaped his legacy as the U.S. President with the shortest tenure in American history.  William Henry Harrison died on his 32nd day in office from complications with pneumonia.

At Voice Automated, we have you covered on Dragon Medical Practice Edition from presidents to physicians to physician assistants. Since 1995, Voice Automated has been delivering speech recognition solutions to physician offices nation wide.

Give us a call today, 800-597-6600.

Dragon ID is a voice print verification application that will allow you to use your voice as your password.  The software is also capable of recognizing input from Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean speakers.

DragonID is targeted towards Android and other platforms and could potentially find its way to PC’s.  Currently the product is being marketed to Consumer device OEM manufactures.

To use Dragon ID, you just say, “Hello Dragon” and your device is unlocked and ready to do your bidding.

Many have asked if this type of technology is ready for prime-time.  When Voice Automated started we had to train users for hours and hours on desktop speech recognition.  Now with programs such as NaturallySpeaking user can get started quickly and with great accuracy dictating directly to their computer.

Other companies, such as Speechpro, a wholly-owned US subsidiary of Russia’s Speech Technology Center (St. Petersburg) have implemented voice print technology on a very large scale.  In 2010, Speechpro delivered on the largest voice print solution to date for the Government of Mexico.

It will be interesting to see where Dragon ID shows up in the future and the continued development of this type of technology.

Now you can dictate to Dragon NaturallySpeaking using the Iphone as you microphone.

The free Dragon Remote Microphone application (available in the Apple app store) allows Dragon users can achieve the same great accurate transcription without being tethered to their computers.

The Dragon Remote Microphone application can be used with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 or higher with iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch 4th gen devices running iOS 4.2 or later and the new version of Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.

Dragon Remote Microphone Installation

Ensure your PC or Mac and your iPhone are on the same Wi-Fi

To make it easy to prepare your device to find your computer, the Dragon Remote Microphone Application supports Bonjour, a network protocol for Windows that allows your device to automatically find your computer. To determine if Bonjour is already installed on your computer, or to download it, visit http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/. If Bonjour isn’t available or functioning, you can manually enter information about your computer into the Dragon Remote Microphone application.

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If you can talk to a software application, you can bet that Nuance speech recognition is behind it. Nuance is the maker of Dragon Medical, Dragon Legal and the Dragon NaturallySpeaking line of dictation software.

Siri for the iPhone utilizes Nuance speech recognition technology and has helped sales of the iPhone 4s move back to the top spot with a slight lead over Android.

Evi, the new app from True Knowledge, also utilizes Nuance speech recognition along with its world-renowned Answer Engine (as opposed to just a ‘search engine’) to deliver quick intelligent answers to the user.

As a dealer for Nuance speech recognition products, Voice Automated has watched this technology grow in leaps and bounds.

What’s on the horizon for speech recognition?  Check back with the Voice Automated Blog to find out.   See Evi on YouTube