Mobile navigation applications offer a tremendous opportunity for the wireless industry with demonstrated consumer interest However, adoption of such services has been slow to date due to poor user experience. Requiring consumers to manually enter destination information via a mobile phone keypad is challenging and time consuming. The Nuance Mobile Search platform with the Mobile Navigation Service Package provides a power solution to overcome the obstacles of entering destination information.

Nuance Mobile Search Service Packages

Nuance Mobile Search Service Packages are customized to address the specific language and grammar needs of particular application categories. The way users interact with different types of applications will vary depending on the purpose of that application. By customizing the language and grammar to reflect the way that end-users interact with search functionality for specific types of applications the user interaction can be simplified and the accuracy of search results can be improved. Since the Service Package is a standard component of the Mobile Search Platform no extra effort is required for the application developer.

Nuance Mobile Navigation Service Package

The Nuance Mobile Navigation Service Package has been designed specifically to leverage the Nuance Mobile Search Service Package technology for the unique needs of navigation and location oriented applications. The Nuance Mobile Navigation Service Package includes packaged street and address grammars that allow mobile navigation application providers to add voice destination entry (including street addresses, businesses and points of interest) and natural spoken turn-by-turn directions to mobile navigation applications for mobile phones and PDAs.

Users can simply speak a destination, for example, “815 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts,” instead of entering the full address on tiny mobile keypads. By using speech recognition technology from Nuance, and the Nuance Mobile Navigation Service Package, destination entry has never been faster or easier.

Nuance Professional Services

The Nuance Mobile Navigation Service Package can be further customized to meet the needs of a specific application through Nuance’s Professional Services group. By leveraging the Nuance Professional Services group’s expertise in speech science, user interface design, and application development, Nuance can work with your organization to build the ideal multimodal search application.