NAVTEQ Voice ^™

DESCRIPTION
■ NAVTEQ Voice enables the use of spoken words which are a more intuitive and natural way for consumers to interact with navigation systems
■ NAVTEQ Voice is the translation of names and named places into phonetic language
■ The usage of NAVTEQ Voice provides high quality pronunciation of names in text-to-speech and voice recognition engines

DATA FEATURES
■ Metafile available with phonetic transcriptions linked to NAVTEQ database attributes
- Street names
- Administrative areas
- Numbered streets (e.g., 104th St)
- POI chain IDs
- POI categories
- Local geoqualifiers (unique local pronunciations U.S.)
- Highway signs (exit signs, straight-on signs)
- State names and abbreviations (U.S. and Canada)

AVAILABILITY
■ Commercially available

COVERAGE
■ Americas:
- 2007: U.S. (English), Canada (English and Canadian French), Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese)
- 2008: U.S. Virgin Islands (English)
■ EMEA:
- 2007: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Great Britain
- 2008: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Spain (Basque) and South Africa
■ Asia Pacific:
- Australia

FORMAT
■ Available in RDF and NAVTEQ Voice (vif-vaf)
■ Available in GDF and SIF+ beginning 2008

Currently, NAVTEQ Voice phonetic transcriptions include:

* Local dialects of supported languages