Nuance App Reads News Articles Out Loud While You Drive
Reading the news and driving don't mix for obvious safety reasons, but a new app now makes it possible by reading articles out loud while you drive. Called Dragon Drive, the app was designed by voice-recognition software company Nuance for Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Its original goal was to help drivers compose and listen to texts and emails while behind the wheel. Now, it has a useful new feature: When media outlets publish an article, drivers can request it, and the text-to-speech software streams an audio recording of the article through Mercedes-Benz's COMAND system. While the news-reading technology was first available last June, a new update ensures that the app's pronunciation will get better with practice. "Nuance text-to-speech learns about new words as they appear in articles," Fatima Vital, Nuance's director of marketing for automobiles, told Mashable in an email. "The pronunciation of these new words is verified and corrected if n...