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SYNC Question: How is SYNC different in the new MyFord Touch system?

Question: How is SYNC different in the new MyFord Touch system?

Answer: The original SYNC system provided voice access to the phone and media player by recognizing around 100 simple commands for making calls and playing music.  With MyFord Touch, SYNC offers these improvements.

Improved voice recognition will recognize over 10,000 voice commands, making it easier to simply press the Voice button and ask for what you want at any time.

More voice control over virtually everything in the system, including all media sources as well as climate functions.

Come back to the Beechmont Ford blog in upcoming weeks and months for even more details on SYNC improvements in MyFord Touch.

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Ford Sync Training: Dial a Phone Number

Dialing a phone number is the easiest and most simple function of Sync.  Learn this action in the video below.  Training also includes how to set your phone to privacy mode.

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Ford Sync Training: Update your Phone with Current Sync Software

There will times when you need to update the Sync software between your mobile phone and your Ford vehicle. This video walks you through the process to do so.

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Ford Sync Training: Obtaining Sports Information

Sync captures a multitude of additional services, sports scores being one of them. Watch and learn how you can keep up-to-date with your favorite sports teams while you are on the go. Pretty cool!

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Ford Sync Training: GPS Equivalent

Sync is not OnStar and OnStar is not Sync.  Sync is the next generation in global positioning and emergency assistance technology.  Watch and learn how you can utilize this technology without spending hundreds of dollars on a GPS system.

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Ford Sync Training: Add a Phone

Adding a new phone to your new Ford vehicle is easy with Sync.  New Ford owners can add multiple phone numbers to the vehicle so all riders can be hands free and the sound from both ends is crisp and clear.

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Ford Sync Training: Online Registration

Beechmont Ford sales consultants, Zach Kushner and Jim Weiss learn how to assist their customers creating a profile for their Sync programs in new Ford vehicles.  Before leaving the dealership customers will have a profile created on syncmyride.com and will be knowledgable of every feature Sync has to offer.  The online registration process is very intuitive and stress free.

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The future of SYNC

There will come a day when an avatar – a virtual representation of a human being – will adorn your vehicle’s instrument panel and act as an electronic personal assistant, Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally predicts.

Mulally, during his keynote address Thursday evening at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, demonstrates what the technology could look like in a video clip featuring an Avatar named Eva, who “lives” on the IP of a futuristic Lincoln.

Eva is able to understand conversational speech and acts as the liaison to the vehicle’s connectivity and infotainment features.

While several auto makers are working on perfecting conversational speech for their in-vehicle multimedia systems, the technology is still a ways off, says Doug VanDagens, director of Ford’s Connected Services Organization.

“There are a number of things that go into natural voice, and nobody now has very high accuracy,” he tells Ward’s. “It will probably become available in a couple years or maybe even 18 months.”

The IP on which Eva is displayed also is fully configurable, allowing drivers to reposition controls such as the fuel gauge and speedometer.

Although Ford says such technology is several years away, it provides a glimpse of the capabilities of Sync, the auto maker’s in-vehicle trademark multi-media system. It also demonstrates the status of Ford’s human-machine interface development.

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New Features to Sync will be released in 2009

Ford Motor Co., which scored a consumer hit with its Sync voice-activated, in-car entertainment and communications system, said it is boosting the system’s features as it looks to develop the technology and stay ahead of the competition.

The majority of our vehicles now have the Sync system built directly into them–no longer worrying about which trim does or does not have Sync.  Our Beechmont Ford customers constantly rave at how Sync has made their driving much more worry-free and permits them to stay focused on the road.

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SYNC is once again in the Consumer Electronic Show

SYNC With 911 Assist and VHR has once again been named a 2009 Best of the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) finalist.

Voting began (1/7) on the website below.

GO VOTE!

Click the big “Users’ Choice” icon at the top of the home page. Please cast your vote and spread the word! http://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth/

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