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we think give you a couple of couple of examples of things that I can do this just tell me what what car this is and what the systems this is a 2011 ford edge and the system we're looking at here is called myford touch and it's the newest system from ford based on sync technology which is a forged platform that's built on microsoft's embedded technology some of this some of the things that we have done with sink in the past we can do with the system as well friend of mine giving me a text message I read them automatically I could read it I don't know what it says did Ken man sent us invite by the way we have brunch at pranna Sean 20th so this was my girlfriend actually just asking me a friend of mine send it invite up for dinner when the Dean came in you press the ok button them so let me give you just a quick introduction so the MyFord Touch system includes the information in the center stack here including this touch screen but also there are two displays in the instrument cluster which two displays in the instrument cluster which are also coordinated with the center system and so when I got that message i basically selected a menu item that was already up in the instrument cluster with this okay i see and it in a read the message so that's that's why i press that ok button one of the interesting things about but beyond obviously the coordination of the displays here one of the interesting things about it is the sync services which this connects to so i can actually with voice commands connect to a tell me based set of services and actually program the navigation system which is what I'll do for you right now please say a command services connecting so it's connecting to the internet so right now it's connecting over my phone which is a sancha so Samsung go focus what do you want what a styling the phone number directions to home the lectures to hug if that's not right that's the voice button and say go Bannock that's exactly right so in the US a relatively small percentage it's about a quarter of phones actually have data tethering enabled and so because we're not doing a lot of data we actually just make a voice call and we use old dial-up modem kind of technology to actually send data back and forth to the car and that works with every every phone with bluetooth anything yeah anything with bluetooth so it downloaded download complete you may now use your phone the download of the destination to to the car i can i can speak set his destination but i can also hit that button and the navigation systems program so i don't have to enter addresses and things on the screen here so you could have done that from the steering wheel too i could have done that from well i do basically did it with with voice i could also program the navigation system through the the display here as well and i can also speak an address if i wanted to speak the address to to enter as the destination but that's kind of that's one of the new things that this does some of the other stuff if you've seen sink before making phone calls or controlling media controlling my zune that's in the must you can you control media on your Samsung Focus no well so I can pause and play Bluetooth media through a 2d exactly through a2dp ah but i can't select so like I can say please say a command USB USB say a command play artist no doubt playing artists no doubt so I can do that over a wired of over a wire media devices plugged a to the story to you but I can't do that over the a tooth that's on the zune HD exactly I can also control serious so this has this has sirius XM in it so i can tune too serious stations please say a command sirius XM chill sorry please say a command Oh serious serious say a station name or number Sirius XM chill chillin to Sirius XM chill so i can i can i can say the names of the stations i don't have to necessarily know the number of the station and two into it i can do the same i can tuned to radio stations with voice using the same speaking the frequency as well is this your number of text messages that phone the seven is the number of text messages that I've received since I've been in the car basically yeah and that's your battery level battery level signal strength the little symbol here means that 911 assist is enabled so if I get in accident over my bluetooth phone emergency call will be made and the position of the vehicle is automatically sent to the emergency services I can control you know the so the full kind of heating and air conditioning system is controlled through the system as well I can please say a command climate temperature 68 degrees did you say 68 degrees yes setting temperature to 68 degrees so I can kind of control everything through the system and almost everything through voice commands to kind of help people focus on I'm driving what else can do with the phone side phone sites i can call please say a command call Manuela Papa Doble on mobile calling Manuela papadopoulou on cell saw one actually complete the call but I can dial digits so it but it's reading your essay a command yeah so it's basically OOP cancel canceling its downloaded my contacts from my phone built a voice grammar out of all of all of the names so that then I can kind of just speak the name and which phone number I want to call them on I can also just speak the name and it'll say do you want to call them on home work hour or so and and I can can you send a text message to them from voice without taking hands off the wheel I can please say a command fun phone say a command send message 3 over 25 I don't have the text message commands off the top of my head because I never do it if you got a text message could you reply to it using voice yeah so this did penman sent us invite by the way we have brunch at pranna shown 20th that's the message we heard earlier right here please say a command Oh reply message replying to 14 2564 do you want to send message 15 to 14 cancel can sling I don't know the commands to do it actually this is an element system but your year so you should be able to reply using using voice I but can you only choose these options when you're rip when you're replying by voice you can only choose one of the pre-configured options but these are customizable so you can so there's 15 here that are sort of yeah come to fault in the system but I can actually customize them on a website and bring a USB key in the car or i can edit them here yeah i can actually edit them here when the car is not moving so this is all disabled when the car is moving and i can i can put in the text that's what ever is mine yeah text that I want to be selecting critical a custom set basically okay one of the things that for did with this system is they've started a concept of four corners of the screen and actually because it's easy to feel it's easy to feel and they're actually color-coded both with so media are you know the media stuff here and here are the same color okay climate navigation are the same color and so kind of part of it is to associate colors with specific functions but also as you say it's it's a little bit easier to kind of when you're using a touchscreen in the car to kind of go for a corner of the screen and then a more precise button and so you don't have to look at the screen you can just feel this corner exactly right off route exactly you hit the repeat that repeat navigation instruction but yes exactly yeah that's good yeah so it helps that helps with that a little bit obviously one of the issues with touchscreens is there's no kind of real tactile feedback of the input and and so that's one of the ways we're trying to address the direction alright sounds good that's our what do we call this again myford touch is there a version or something no just the latest myford touch on built on scene thousand eleven yet built on sync all right thank you very much yeah