Viavo for press

Viavo is a tap-to-talk AI voice assistant for drivers on iPhone and CarPlay. Press one button on the car screen, say what you need in your own words, and Viavo does it and answers out loud, with a native voice, in 28 languages.

Why it exists

Siri on CarPlay still doesn’t speak Polish, Czech, Romanian, Greek, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian or Ukrainian. Drivers there either talk to their car in English or don’t talk to it at all. The chatbot apps that came to CarPlay mostly talk: in ZDNET’s test, ChatGPT and Perplexity couldn’t place a call, send a message or play music. Viavo speaks all of these languages and twenty more, understands everyday speech rather than fixed commands, and does the task.

Viavo is made by a small team in Serbia.

App preview · 25 seconds, English, 886 × 1920 MP4

What drivers say to it

Take me home, with a stop for gasThe route opens in Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.
A good restaurant on the way, in about an hourPlaces with ratings, opening hours and reviews.
Will I make it by nine?Travel time with traffic.
Play something for the roadApple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music or Deezer; live radio by name.
What’s new in my chats?The gist of Telegram and Slack, read a message, dictate a reply; WhatsApp and SMS messages open ready to send.
Remind me to call the bank when I get to the officeReminders, calendar, alarms, notes.

And any question, with a web search for fresh facts.