Japanese language launched on world-leading Speechmatics ASR platform

Speechmatics today released it’s Japanese language pack to our cloud-based and on-premise Speech Recognition platform.

Proving again the power and flexibility of the Auto-Auto language creation framework, releasing Japanese underlines our commitment to deliver broad language coverage to our rapidly expanding new and existing customer base.

Misquoting Orwell: “All languages are equal, but some languages are more equal than others.” 

Benoît Brard from our Languages team here in Cambridge, “For Auto-Auto, some languages are indeed more challenging than others. And Japanese, at first sight, looked scary: our first language without spaces, with a logographic writing system (where the characters represent concept rather than sounds), and no native speakers to hand. It was… all Greek to us. Nonetheless, in a matter of days and a few nudges in places, Auto-Auto has proved to be generic and powerful enough to deliver our first Japanese model without further human intervention.”

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