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To: Stan V. who wrote (9229)	12/3/2000 8:49:52 AM
From: hcirteg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

Hi Stan- Thanks for your excellent contribution. I find the following excerpt most interesting: <But automakers say they can't bring eyes-on-the-road, hands-on-the-wheel techniques to vehicles unless they have good speech recognition systems. That's why General Motors has forged partnerships with General Magic Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nuance Communications (Menlo Park, Calif.) to work on voice recognition systems. It's also why Ford Motor Co. has allied itself with speech recognition developer Lernout & Hauspie (Leper, Belgium), which filed for Chapter 11 protection this past week following management missteps.> Now if LHSP is kaput (and I truly beleive it is), what is Ford gonig to do? If you believe the article that we are still 12-18 months away from mobile telematics, then that, perhaps, gives Ford enough time to develop plan B. BUT....I can't keep the conversation I had with the SAAB PR director last month out of my mind. He was VERY clear that all SAABS are shiipping with the hardware as standard and they will go live in February/March nationwide...."when the Onstar system has been deployed nationwide, then SAAB will start...we exxpect that in February." That's February 2001, not 2002 or 2003. That's 3 months! So WHAT IS FORD GOING TO DO? HOW CAN THEY NOT GO TO ONSTAR? As far as the article's mention of the Clarion "Auto-PC"....it's not selling because the ONSTAR/GMGC telematics approach eliminates its need. No more "PC" on the car...your "brains" of your mobile telematics systems will reside in the GMGC NOC. That way, the hardware price goes WAY DOWN, thus making it affordable to put in ALL cars. So the mobile PC is DEAD because it was out maneuvered, not because it has bad speech recognition. Thanks again for your input and please keep posting. HC