In Car and Motorcycle Recognition

Expect the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) coming up to feature many announcements that relate to speech recognition - Parrot who make several innovative products in the wireless world have come out with two new ones for the show

One for drivers of cars (Parrot RK8200) and the other for motorcyclists (Parrot SK4000)

See the Car unit video at CNET videos here and Engadgets review here
Motorcycle unit can be seen here and

Apart from listening to music it integrates with Blue Tooth mobile phones providing hands-free function including automatic phone book synchronization and hands-free call functionality through voice recognition and voice synthesis (Text-to-Speech) that reads contact names directly to the user.

The software is multi-user eliminating the need to record names and train the system and dials numbers automatically reading the contact names from the user’s phone book through the earpiece and also identifies radio stations to help the rider/driver select a station without taking his or her hands of the handlebar/wheel.

As the video review said.... who needs wants in car stereo with CD's anymore