Talk to your Jaguar Land Rover with InControl JustDrive App

Jaguar Land Rover’s new InControl infotainment is getting JustDrive, an App that lets drivers talk naturally to the system and control Smartphone Apps.

Jaguar Land Rover’s new InControl Infotainment is a big leap forward for JLR (and much needed) and offers full Smartphone integration with bespoke Apps and even a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Now, JLR is aiming to make the InControl infotainment system much easier to use by launching a new App – JustDrive – that claims to let users interact with their Apps using natural language rather than the stilted set of ‘voice commands’ we all abhor.

Developed by CloudCar for JLR, JustDrive integrates Apps like Spotify, Twitter, Yelp and more to offer a huge level of connectivity for Nav, Social and information services with commands issued with natural speech.

JLR claim the new JustDrive uses “one of the most advanced plain speech recognition packages in the world” so you can chat away to the InControl infotainment and get it to do just what you want.

For example, you can ask JustDrive to play a song and it’ll find it, or if you’re running late you can tell those expecting you that you’re stuck in traffic, and JustDrive will send a text after reading it back to you to check it’s right.

Dr Wolfgang Epple, Research & Technology Director at JLR, said:

Today, we are advancing our InControl system a stage further and to the forefront of the industry with the launch of justDrive. This moves the driver from the task-oriented, app-specific touch-based use of individual apps, to full control of all chosen app content through plain natural speech or touch interface.

If JLR are right about JustDrive’s ability to understand instructions, it’s a great step forward. You’ll be able to find out for yourself when it’s available for download in early 2015 – as long as you have a JLR vehicle running InControl – for Apple and Android.