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.

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Verizon has its own Connected Home offering and is also working on its LTE-enabled automotive and telematic ecosystem with BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Toyota and others.

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Current research in audio processing includes noise suppression and continuous speech recognition, which can be applied as much to cell phones as to voice-controlled telematic devices in vehicles.

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