Volkswagen-owned Skoda is set to roll out a proprietary voice assistant, named Laura. The natural language-backed system will support Czech, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and will navigate and take dictation for SMS. In addition to the new vehicles, Volkswagen has also announced plans to expand its self-driving car research center in Silicon Valley.
Volkswagen-owned Skoda is set to roll out a proprietary voice assistant, named Laura. The natural language-backed system will support Czech, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and will navigate and take dictation for SMS. Analysts suggested cost was behind Skoda's decision to shun Volkswagen's agreement with Microsoft, which will connect Azure to five million new vehicles from next year.