Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that its Dragon Drive connected car platform powers the automotive assistant in Toyota’s user experience concept vehicle, Toyota Concept-i. Concept-i is being showcased at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and features the latest automotive innovations, including automated technology, emotion detection, and more. Dragon Drive leverages conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to power Concept-i’s fully customized automotive assistant. Features include voice-controlled restaurant and point of interest search, navigation, Q&A, sports information, and integration with content providers like HERE and Yelp. Dragon Drive’s conversational AI is powered by contextual reasoning, using knowledge, context of current and past conversations, and awareness of personal preferences to understand and complete complex requests and tasks. Working with Toyota’s emotion estimation engine, Dragon Drive’s conversational AI can also take a user’s emotional reaction and attention into account to deliver an intelligent conversation with optimal results. Dragon Drive will interact with Concept-i drivers through a combination of its automotive-grade signal enhancement and acoustics innovation with ambient wake-up, hybrid embedded-cloud speech recognition, and text-to-speech. In addition, Dragon Drive utilizes natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG) to enable users to have an intelligent and intuitive conversation with the automotive assistant, using their own words and with responses that mimic natural human speech.