1. Febrary 21st 2007 Don’t touch! Just talk! Voice Input & Output for Automotive Environment

2. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 2 Speech Input / Output & connectivity Future related topics: - Future Acoustic Challenges - Applications with Multilingual Speech Input - Live Demos

3. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 3 The hybrid microphone offers both, directionality and robustness against wind noise. In a compact arrangement two capsules are integrated in one single housing for minimum space requirement. Hybrid microphone specific signal processing removes wind noise while keeping directionality. Hybrid microphone signal processing Hybrid Mic for Windblocking Standard Microphone Signal Spectrograms Hybrid Microphone Signal Microphone Technologies

4. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 4 Speech Input / Output & connectivity Multilingual Speech Input - Mobile Phone, Names of the Phone Book - Fuzzy Search - Navigation - Music Player

5. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 5 Speech Input Call Martin Rivoir at Office Speech Dialog System for calling names of the Phone Book

6. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 6 Speech Destination Input Navigate to Saint Bernard Avenue in New Orleans

7. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 7 Frankfurt Franzburg Frankenburg Brandenburg …... Frankfurt Franzburg Frankenburg Brandenburg …... City, Street, POI Frankfurt  Navigation apps. are characterized by unlimited vocabularies.  Native and foreign languages are mixed. (mainly for street names and POI)  requires phonetic data integrated into the navigation database  Interdisciplinary program a fast access to data base entries. Example of a Navigation Database Number Street Names: California 170,566 Florida 128,189 Texas 115,517 Michigans 55,371 Unlimited / Dynamic Vocabulary, G2P

8. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 8 Multilingual Speech Driven Music Player Music Player, play Artist “Herbert Grönemeyer” track “Zum Meer” + Pleas select an - Artist - Track - Album or Genre

9. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 9 Multilingual Speech Driven Music Player Wer ist das? + Artist: Michael Jackson Album: Thriller Track: Beat It

10. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 10 Future Challenges of Speech Input Future Fuzzy search: “Give me information about a Hotel nearby the Oktoberfest?” Future Fuzzy search: “The next Service Station?”

11. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 11 Speech Input / Output & connectivity Live Demonstration: - Song selection by Voice (StarRec™ MP)

12. © Harman/Becker Automotive Systems Th. Krippgans Confidential 3 June 2015 Page 12 Home Many thanks for your attention