Systems and Methods for Off-Board Voice-Automated Vehicle Navigation

A system for providing navigational information to a vehicle driver, comprising:

• an on-board system disposed on a vehicle and processing and transmitting via a wireless link spoken requests from a vehicle driver requesting navigational information to a desired destination;
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• a data center processing the spoken requests received via the wireless link, wherein the data center:
• performs automated voice recognition processing on the spoken requests to attempt recognition of destination components of the spoken requests;
• generates and stores a list of possible destination components corresponding to the spoken requests and confidence scores calculated for each possible destination component;
• confirms an accuracy of the possible destination components via fully automated interactive voice exchanges between the vehicle driver and the data center when the confidence scores calculated for all of the possible destination components are above a selected threshold;
• determines a destination from confirmed destination components;
• generates navigational information to the determined destination;
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• transmits the navigational information to the on-board system via the wireless link.