Later this year, MyFord Touch will start selling on the 2011 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX. MyFord Touch is Ford’s second-generation Sync driver connectivity technology that has been designed to be more user-friendly.
Sync is the result of Ford’s first stab at a hands-free connectivity technology. But there were two major issues blocking its success: its multi-level commands and a limited vocabulary. Brigitte Richardson, lead engineer of Ford’s voice control and speech commands technology, said that for this latest generation of Sync, the system can be controlled without needing to learn that many commands or navigate as many menus.
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