The leading provider of digital mapping, TomTom, announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up with Microsoft to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) driven conversational assistant for cars.
According to the company, the assistant will let users “converse naturally with their vehicles” and provide voice interaction for infotainment, location search, and car command systems.
The voice assistant was developed by TomTom using a variety of Microsoft services, including its Azure OpenAI Service. TomTom is a competitor of Google Maps and the largest mapping platform globally.
The Dutch map company stated that the voice assistant is integrated into TomTom’s Digital Cockpit, an open, modular in-vehicle infotainment platform, as well as other automotive infotainment systems.
In July, TomTom released an LLM plug-in for ChatGPT, enabling users of the chatbot to utilize its maps to schedule travel and discover new locations.
When Azure Maps location services were initially powered by Microsoft in 2016, the firm started collaborating with them.
