Ford Fiesta beats Mercedes CLS
By David Bomphrey
Voice recognition systems have been around in cars for a while now and systems vary in quality and usefulness. Recently Fifth Gear, with the comedic help of a movie voice over man, tested the £1200 Mercedes option in the CLS, a £40,000 car against the £150 option in the Fiesta. The result was a surprise.
The Fiesta won as it was much faster and still covered all the options the Mercedes version had. The message here is that the user experience of a product is a critical part of its appeal. If it works quickly and accurately what else do you need sometimes?
You can see the video below. The review summary begins at about 2 mins.
Comments
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Joe CallaghanWhy pick this guy for a speech recognition test. ?
use an ordinary guy from Lancashire. For me, speech recognition is useless.
Joe. From lancashire.
