BYD Co., China’s largest electrified-vehicle maker, has signed a deal with Stingray, a Canadian music, media and technology company, to bring Karaoke into its vehicles.
Stingray’s Karaoke product will be embedded as an app in the infotainment system of its popular models to be sold in a dozen countries later this year, BYD said last week, without identifying the countries.
As the infotainment system will support dozens of languages and feature an intuitive user interface, vehicle owners can access and browse Stingray’s song library by title, artist, lyrics or genre.
To ensure driving safety, the system will automatically deactivate the karaoke lyrics scrolling function on the center console when the vehicle is in driving mode, BYD said.
The two companies have also developed a separate app allowing passengers to use mobile devices to view lyrics and control song selection when the audio plays through the vehicle sound system, it added.