Cerence Inc. announced that NIO will deploy Cerence conversational AI in its ES8 full-size SUV as the carmaker expands to Norway. NIO is renowned for its role in helping advance the electric car genre, and through this collaboration adds cutting-edge voice and AI to its already futuristic vehicles. The Cerence Automotive Platform delivers Cerence's automotive voice innovations in a turnkey, flexible architecture with minimal development and deployment time.

NIO turned to Cerence for an intuitive, conversational automotive assistant that resides in its infotainment system and delivers a personalized in-car experience. The automaker takes of advantage of both on-board and cloud-based conversational AI and natural language understanding, along with text-to-speech and speech signal enhancement, to deliver fast, accurate interactions with the voice assistant, even in limited connectivity.