Toshiba to Introduce Voice Synthetic Cloud Service: RECAIUS
Toshiba is about to embark on an all-synthetic, cloud-type guiding service to easily pass on human "intentions" with sounds and images. How does that sound? It's called "RECAIUS" and no joke, folks.
The core of the innovation is service - simple as that. Take for instance a business conference. You expect views and ideas fly across the table leading to debates, arguments, and what not. What if RECAIUS steps in taking notes and translating them into graphs and charts right off? What if in a shop RECAIUS volunteers to guide customers communicating with them like a human?
Well, that's the kind of utility Toshiba expects RECAIUS to have after years of ICT and plan to explore an entirely new market based on it.
You feed in advance the voice a human into RECAIUS; it will process patterns into data and reproduce them as the human does: "Well, the weather in Tokyo is fine today". When tested, RECAIUS talks like human - somewhat awkward when expressing anger but otherwise quite natural. In Japanese, RECAIUS is mounted with a package service with 13 different hypothetical speakers to choose from.
RECAIUS' voice synthetic service is a cloud system that presupposes uses as the navigation system, vocal guidance, etc. The voices of public entertainers can be employed if the rights are cleared; contents industries can readily make use of the device.
RECAIUS' vocal viewer can translate vocal data picked up by smartphone straight into sentences. Keywords may be automatically picked out of the sentences and translated into graphs and charts. Taking the minutes of a meeting can be done in a jiffy.
RECAIUS is being developed with distribution businesses in mind. On-the-spot interpretation service is one key area where this device can perform miracles: foreign guests at a hotel have not trouble "conversing" with hotel attendants almost simultaneously with a smartphone between.
