The magic word for this is “natural language input”: When voice control made its debut 25 years ago, it might have had 20 words. Ten years later it was 50,000 to 70,000 and today it is several million. If you consider that the average German gets through the day with an active vocabulary of 4000 words, you can probably speak of fluent speech. Therefore, with such systems, nobody has to navigate through command lines and command chains, but speaks a comparatively normal monologue and the car picks out the appropriate keywords. “Not the human, but the technology has to learn vocabulary if the system is to be successful,” says one developer. However, the intelligence for this is no longer in the car but on the servers, and a stable online connection is required for intelligent conversation.
Omnipresent – If the car is listening: With the car on you and you
