Speak To Your Car With Microsoft SYNC
February 28, 2008 by krisdhingra
Filed under Tech
Remember the amazing 1980’s television show Knight Rider which starred David Hasselhoff and an Super Intelligent In Car Computer called KITT. Well, the 1980’s was surely the decade that produced some of the most amazing television programs many of which are watched even today.
Well, it seems like the engineers at Microsoft got really inspired from KITT and decided to create something of their own so that they can turn every car into a Knight.
Microsoft SYNC is a fully-integrated, voice activated in-car communication and entertainment system for your mobile phone and digital music player. Microsoft SYNC technology is a fully-integrated, flash memory-based system that enables drivers to call hands-free and to control a range of digital audio via voice commands and buttons mounted on the steering wheel. The system is based on an a Microsoft Auto operating system comprising an ARM 11 processor, 64MB of DRAM and 256MB of flash memory.
Microsoft SYNC works on the new Microsoft SYNC Framework which in the words of Microsoft is “a comprehensive synchronization platform enabling collaboration and offline for applications, services and devices with support for any data type, any data store, any transfer protocol, and network topology“. Now, that sure seems to be a bold statement and it would be interesting to see if any other in-car entertainment player uses the SYNC technology.
Microsoft SYNC enabled cars are now in sale in North America in 2008 models of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury. This sure is a very new field for Microsoft and it’s nice to see that they are trying to venture out into new areas. If you haven’t seen the ad spots for SYNC then you can probably check one out below:
Tags: microsoft, sync, framework, cars, usa, entertainment, ford, mercury
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