The cars of the future will have powerful panoptic systems to project telematic imagery across the windshield, audiophile sound systems and speech and gesture recognition.
The game, called Fast ForWord, is meant to improve phoneme recognition by stretching out and accentuating each sound, much as mothers do when they talk baby-talk, until the child's ear becomes more attuned to the different phonemes.
In fact, sound quality can be even more valuable for video chat and voice recognition because users tend to hold their devices far from their faces when using these services, enabling more local noise to seep in.