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With the rapid development of science and technology, whether it is mobile travel or smart home, voice assistant is quietly entering our daily life. Recently, a cooperation was reached with sound hound, a voice recognition start-up company. The two sides jointly developed an artificial intelligence (AI) car voice assistant, which supports users to operate instructions in the car through voice and obtain a comfortable mobile experience. By using the custom wake-up word "OK Honda" developed by SoundHound, Honda voice assistant can connect users with mobile products and control various functions through voice, such as playing music, sending and receiving SMS, map navigation, etc. SoundHound's houndify AI voice platform has the ability to understand the user's conversation context, and can provide more accurate speech recognition function and rapid feedback. Honda and SoundHound have started to develop voice assistant since 2018, but this time they have not released too much information, nor compared with assistant, Siri and other products. You can see the true face of Honda AI car voice assistant at the upcoming 2020 North American Consumer Electronics Show (CES). "Honda Civic" during this CES exhibition, Honda will also launch a "smart phone brain" project. It is hoped that when driving or driving a motorcycle, users can use voice or physical controls of the vehicle to operate the mobile phone through Bluetooth connection, such as answering and calling, so as to improve the driving safety of users. On the issue of safe driving, automakers are trying different ways to stop drivers from distracting. At present, many car companies and parts manufacturers have developed camera technology, hoping to deal with the problem of driving distraction through the driver fatigue monitoring system. Honda's way is not to prevent users from using mobile phones, but to make users use mobile phones more safely.