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Volkswagen AG has implemented ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking to automate the vehicle inspection process at their manufacturing plant in Wolfsburg, Germany.
The speech-enabled solution was implemented by ASKA Corporation, a ScanSoft partner and German solution integrator that specializes in speech recognition and productivity solutions.
Historically, Volkswagen quality assurance inspectors of prototype vehicles have recorded inspection information using an extensive form process, with the resulting data manually transferred into the online quality control and reporting system. This approach was cumbersome and exposed the inspection process to the possibility of lost reports and data transfer errors. Further, the manual data entry process added expense and slowed the creation of reports and data analysis.
The new automated inspection process eliminates the...