Talk and give instructions to your car, Strictly speaking

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just order your ride to play your favorite ballads, or simply give directions to your destination? This could be made possible without lifting a finger, or taking your eyes off the road. Unveiled at the CeBIT 2007 exhibition, is a BMW fitted with a futuristic multilingual human-computer dialogue system.
This is an exceptional dialogue interface, specially designed to exhibit conversational, intuitive traits as well as adapt to different user situations. The revolutionary technology has been developed by a team of researchers in part of a wider operation dubbed EU Project TALK. The team adopts the Information State Update (ISU) system. The approach is to develop versatile dialogue systems which are compatible with different languages, diverse application domains, and have the ability to implement most favorable system behavior based on human dialogue.
Project TALK kicked off operations in 2004, and has recorded significant progress to date. A great deal has been achieved in developing annotation, multimodality and multilingual capabilities, as well integrating them. BMW has already teamed up with the developers to produce in-car facilities that can respond to human speech. The project is still under development, though it has been successfully deployed in various systems and devices. This is the stuff of sci-fi flicks. We can’t say for sure when this technology will hit the mass market.