Teletext for radio on display at CeBIT

Visitors to CeBIT can see a demonstration of a digital news service carrying menu-driven information of interest to drivers.

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Audi are presenting at CeBIT in Hall 9, booth B36, the first live in-car reception of News Service Journaline, a "teletext for radio" news service for drivers.

This demonstrates, for the first time, a complete real-time transmission chain of the service over digital radio DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting).

The real-time transmission chain consists of the new "Fraunhofer Multimedia DataServer for DAB R4" by Fraunhofer IIS and DAB receiver technology by Atmel.

The Fraunhofer Multimedia DataServer automatically aggregates content for NewsService Journaline and transmits it using DAB.

NewsService Journaline is Audi's news service.

This "teletext for radio" provides continuously updated information for immediate access.

The driver can simply choose text news sorted by topics from a hierarchically organised menu.

A text-to-speech system installed in the car then presents the text messages previously transmitted over DAB.

The service can be managed using the Audi MMI (multimedia interface).

It is also easy to personalise the system: based on individual preferences, the system chooses only the news topics that are of interest to the driver.

Topics of specific interest can also be bookmarked for an easy and direct access in future.

The range of information comprises, for example, latest news and news related to the radio program.

The system is able to offer long news texts as well as automatically updated short news.

For the CeBIT demo, content is provided by ARD-Text, CIO Magazin, Deutsche Welle, NDR, Opta Sportsdata, Suddeutsche Zeitung and Audi.

Transmission over Digital Radio DAB is carried out in collaboration with Digital Radio Nord.

After a test phase in Germany, Audi will decide about introducing the service based on customer reaction.

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