Hands-Free Palm System in Development for Your Car

Delphi Automotive Systems and Palm have announced an initiative to develop new multimedia products and services for vehicles. At a press conference, Delphi demonstrated a prototype of the Communiport Mobile Productivity Center, that will HotSynch with a Palm V, allowing drivers access to Palm content while in the vehicle. The system is designed to be used hands-free in the vehicle through voice recognition and a text-to-speech engine to retrieve information from and load information into the Palm handheld. Thanks also to Austin Burns for sending in this ZDNet article on the Palm Car system.

With the Delphi/Palm system, users will be able to ask their Palm handheld to:

• Download and read e-mail messages, scheduled appointments, memos and other stored information;
• Dictate and send electronic mail;
• Record new appointments and memos;
• Download and read simple Internet text, including directions, breaking
• news, stock quotes, and sports scores.
• Request that a phone number recorded in the Palm handheld be dialed through Delphi's hands-free phone, as part of Delphi's integrated Communiport(R) technologies.