Abstract: A voice control system for a motor vehicle includes a microphone producing a microphone signal dependent upon a voiced utterance by a human user disposed outside of the motor vehicle. An electronic control unit is communicatively coupled to the microphone and recognizes a command in the microphone signal. An application is communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and receives a signal from the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit implements the command in the microphone signal and thereby modifies a parameter of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A voice biometric system for a motor vehicle includes a microphone producing a microphone signal dependent upon a voiced utterance by a human user. A low power, fast booting electronic control unit is communicatively coupled to the microphone and performs voice biometric processing on the microphone signal to authenticate the human user. An application is communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and receives a signal from the electronic control unit. The application modifies a parameter of the motor vehicle dependent upon the authentication of the human user by the electronic control unit.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for selective control of charging a power source (122). The method can include the steps of charging (212) the power source of an electronic device (136) in which the electronic device also includes a global positioning system unit (118) and conducting (216) a session for the global positioning system unit. The method can also include the step of—in response to the session—selectively throttling (218) the flow of current to the power source of the electronic device to reduce the effect of thermal variation on the operation of the global positioning system unit.