Nuance Communications, Inc. and Chrysler Group announced that Nuance's Dragon Drive automotive-grade voice platform for the connected car is part of Chrysler Group's new Uconnect Access services. Uconnect Access provides 2013 Ram 1500 and SRT Viper owners a range of new services, including voice texting, and live and local connected search capabilities. Uconnect Access takes advantage of Nuance's embedded and connected natural language understanding voice technology to give drivers smarter and faster connectivity to people, information and content -- in the car and in the cloud.

Uconnect Access leverages Nuance's cloud-based Dragon Drive Messaging service to let people send, receive and respond to text messages to all contacts in their phonebook. All incoming text messages can be read aloud with Nuance's text-to-speech capabilities, and from there drivers can simply dictate a response back if needed. In fact, Uconnect Access from Chrysler Group is the first from a U.S. auto maker that introduces cloud-based, hands-free, voice-activated texting.