Ford Partnering With Spotify To Try The Music Service’s First In-Car Integration
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Oct 22, 2024
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Today at Hackathon running in San Francisco, Ford, an U.S based automaker and Spotify, a Sweden based music service provider teamed up to explore the opportunities for developers in the in-car application development for new voice-activated Ford SYNC system. This is not an official partnership for these two companies. They were making a try there by giving the developers enough details about the Ford's new API and SDK, and giving some insight about SYNC, to let the developers hack the in-car entertainment for some good app development.
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Ford SYNC applink is a downloadable software program, on the 2011 Fiesta, allowing owners to access and control Android<span style="font-size: small;"> and BlackBerry</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Smartphone apps with voice commands and vehicle controls. This will help the drivers to use their Smartphone apps without taking their hands off the steering. Already <span style="font-size: small;">Ford created the SYNC developer community with launch of new “#-Link-Snipped-#†</span><span style="font-size: small;">, giving developers a pathway to partner with Ford on SYNC-enabled applications.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">For Spotify, which is a growing music service provider which currently has service in 8 countries. It will be a big deal if this partership ends up as a sucess story. Spotify's role in this partnership today in Hackathon is giving a try for letting their music service on Ford's in-car entertainment applications through SYNC. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ford was in a real urge in developing voice user interface using SYNC’s in-vehicle speech recognition system, making using of text-to-speech engine and providing commands for their mobile applications, and vehicle data, like speed, GPS location, and fuel economy. Their urge has a solid reason of letting the SYNC AppLink availablity in Ford Fusion, the Fusion Hybrid, Mustang, Shelby, Fiesta, F-150 and four other models, planned to release in 2012. </span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/10/spotify-and-ford-team-together-to-showcase-the-music-services-first-in-car-integration/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Spotify And Ford Team Together To Showcase The Music Service's First In-Car Integration • TechCrunch</a>Â Image source: <a href="https://www.askmen.com/entertainment/guy_gear_150/171_in-car-entertainment-guy-gear.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">In-Car Entertainment: Guy Gear - AskMen</a></span>
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Ford SYNC applink is a downloadable software program, on the 2011 Fiesta, allowing owners to access and control Android<span style="font-size: small;"> and BlackBerry</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Smartphone apps with voice commands and vehicle controls. This will help the drivers to use their Smartphone apps without taking their hands off the steering. Already <span style="font-size: small;">Ford created the SYNC developer community with launch of new “#-Link-Snipped-#†</span><span style="font-size: small;">, giving developers a pathway to partner with Ford on SYNC-enabled applications.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">For Spotify, which is a growing music service provider which currently has service in 8 countries. It will be a big deal if this partership ends up as a sucess story. Spotify's role in this partnership today in Hackathon is giving a try for letting their music service on Ford's in-car entertainment applications through SYNC. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ford was in a real urge in developing voice user interface using SYNC’s in-vehicle speech recognition system, making using of text-to-speech engine and providing commands for their mobile applications, and vehicle data, like speed, GPS location, and fuel economy. Their urge has a solid reason of letting the SYNC AppLink availablity in Ford Fusion, the Fusion Hybrid, Mustang, Shelby, Fiesta, F-150 and four other models, planned to release in 2012. </span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/10/spotify-and-ford-team-together-to-showcase-the-music-services-first-in-car-integration/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Spotify And Ford Team Together To Showcase The Music Service's First In-Car Integration • TechCrunch</a>Â Image source: <a href="https://www.askmen.com/entertainment/guy_gear_150/171_in-car-entertainment-guy-gear.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">In-Car Entertainment: Guy Gear - AskMen</a></span>