The engineers at Waze have steadily added to the app’s voice-based features and functions. As noted in the company’s “By the Waze” blog, TTS-based driving instructions have been a feature of the “Commuting Widget” available for download from the Android Marketplace.
Nuance is making it easier for mobile application developers to add voice input and output to personal navigation applications by offering Vocon Navigation as a pre-packaged “App Module” to support “one-shot destination entry.”
In a blog post, Microsoft’s Justin Jed highlights two new features that ship with the latest version of the Bing App for Mobile.