Ahead of Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona, Ford has announced it’s working on making voice recognition in cars equally attuned to drivers’ emotions. Nuance supplies the voice recognition (VR) technology for Ford’s Sync infotainment system as well as most other automakers. Ford’s Sync 3 system is already on the way to allowing drivers to connect to Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa. “The next step for the cars of tomorrow could be to pick up on tiny changes in our facial expression as well as modulations and inflections in our speaking voice,” Ford added. In the movie Her, the lead character falls for his voice assistant at the risk of ruining human relationships.

Source: Forbes February 23, 2017 19:00 UTC