Oriental-COCOSDA 2016: Japan country report
Satoshi Nakamura · 2016
▪ U-STAR (Universal Speech Translation Advanced Research Consortium) ▪ Realizing a worldwide S2ST network ▪ Developing the foundation of network-based S2ST □ Current Members : 33 institutes (26 regions) □ U-STAR Website: http://www.ustar-consortium.com/ ▪ Global Communication Plan □ Realization of High Quality Speech-to-Speech Translation ▪ 5 year project funded by MIC (1.38 billion yen in 2015 and 1.28 billion yen in 2016) □ In 2020, our technologies will be implemented as a “commonly-used” ICT device in shops, stations, hospitals, hotels, and etc. □ In 2020, 10 languages (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Burmese) will be strongly supported. □ Our speech translation technology has been applied to several commercial services.