"Omotenashi Guide" is the system to provide multilingual guide services for usual Japanese audio announcements to the smartphone for foreigners, senior citizens or people with hearing difficulties.
Recently the Tokyo Olympic / Paralympic Games 2020 change the domestic tourism market and it needs improvement for barrior-free policy.
The three main feature of "Omotenashi Guide" is as following.
1) There is no limit to the number of supported languages.
2) It is possible to use existing equipments.
3) It is not as essential the Internet and Wifi connection because of sending information by audio signal.
It means that the service cover any languages with less investment. The transportation companies, commercial facilities and tourism companies are interested in the "Omotenashi Guide" and some of them have trial experiment.
In addition, we started joint research and development with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT), and we aim to strengthen the ability to automatically multilingual translation for announcement and narration in real voice.
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【Exhibition content】
The main exhibision contents are the following.
1) Introduction of the showcase for trial experiments with various partners.
2) Introduction for the technology to convert announcement to text data without internet connection.
3) Introduction for the technology to add English announcement automatically following Japanese real voice announcement.
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