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News Release from: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 September 2006
Audi tries out mobile data service
Audi has demonstrated the first realisation of NewsService Journaline in a car environment at IFA, Berlin.
Audi has demonstrated the first realisation of NewsService Journaline in a car environment at IFA, Berlin This information service allows passengers to easily navigate through thematically organised textual news
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Constantly updated information is received via Digital Radio DAB and immediately made available.
Passenger can mark individual items as favourites for direct future access.
The provided information will span a wide range of topics: current news, regionally sorted traffic messages, or programme associated information like the station's contact address or programme schemes are just some examples.
The service is fully integrated into the Audi MMI (multimedia interface) user concept, and presented in the production-run MMI display.
In future, the user interaction while driving will be handled by speech output and voice command recognition.
This accommodates the important requirements of driving safety.
After a test phase, Audi will decide on the introduction of this service into series production.
Audi's participation is based on its knowledge drawn from the MACS research project, which led to the creation of a personalised information service.
Stefan Sellschopp, Audi Project Director CarIT, emphasises that personalisation will enable the user to quickly access all relevant information even while driving.
In addition, the user will be able to define the presented level of detail.
Alexander Zink, Project Director for NewsService Journaline at Fraunhofer IIS, is very pleased with this innovative form of implementing the service: "Already today NewsService Journaline is very popular among broadcast stations".
"The co-operation of Audi and Fraunhofer IIS to commonly create an extended user experience based on NewsService Journaline will provide mobile users with a convenient way of accessing all kinds of information - just like teletext does on your TV screen today".
The text based information service allows the user to easily navigate through text messages, which are hierarchically organised in menus.
NewsService Journaline is highly optimised for an efficient transmission in the digital radio systems DAB as well as DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale).
International broadcast stations have been providing this service to their listeners for years.
It can be accessed with almost any of today's PC based DRM receivers.
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