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Panasonic Smart TVs Coming With Voice Capabilities This Spring

By TechTaffy Desk

Panasonic_Nuance

Talk to your television, and let it talk back to you. Panasonic’s latest lineup of Smart Viera HDTVs are coming with voice capabilities powered by Nuance’s Dragon TV.

You can use voice to control and interact with the Viera TVs, and speak to find content, search the Web, or control the volume.  Dragon TV’s text-to-speech also lets television content and options on the screen to be read out loud.     

Panasonic Smart Viera TVs featuring Dragon TV will be available worldwide beginning in the Spring of 2013. Dragon TV is a part of Nuance’s portfolio of voice, touch and natural language understanding products.

[Image courtesy: Panasonic]

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