Ford Sync
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| Original author(s) | Ford Motor Company |
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| Developer(s) | Ford Motor Company |
| Initial release | September 2007 |
| Stable release |
Gen3-1.0.6
Gen2-3.8 Gen1-4.4.1 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system |
Windows Embedded Automotive QNX |
| Available in | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Type | Telematics |
| License | Proprietary commercial software |
| Website | www |
Ford Sync (stylized Ford SYNC) is a factory-installed, integrated in-vehicle communications and entertainment system that allows users to make hands-free telephone calls, control music and perform other functions with the use of voice commands. The system consists of applications and user interfaces developed by Ford and other third-party developers. The first two generations (Ford Sync and MyFord Touch) run on the Windows Embedded Automotive operating system designed by Microsoft, while the third generation (Sync 3) will run on the QNX software from BlackBerry Limited.
Ford first announced the release of SYNC in January 2007 at the Detroit International Auto Show. SYNC was released into the retail market in 2007 when Ford installed the technology in twelve Ford group vehicles (2008 model) in North America.
As of 2014, SYNC is offered in North America as a standard feature in most Ford and all Lincoln models.
Ford president and CEO Alan Mulally and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced the SYNC partnership between Ford and Microsoft at the annual North American International Auto Show in January 2007.
The Ford SYNC technology was promoted as a new product that provided drivers with the ability to operate Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones and digital media players in their vehicles using voice commands, the vehicle's steering wheel, and radio controls. Later, new technology was added to SYNC in which text messages received by the driver are "vocalized" by a digitized female voice device named "Samantha". SYNC's text message function also has the ability to interpret approximately one hundred shorthand messages, such as "LOL", and will read "swear words", but does not decipher acronyms that have been considered by the designers to be "obscene".
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