Do you use the voice recognition function on your smartphone a lot? However, as this voice recognition function becomes more ‘state-of-the-art’, there are some things it can never do. It expresses the ‘wrong pronunciation’ as it is. For example, even if you say “Let’s go by car” instead of “Let’s go by car,” the smartphone automatically recognizes this as “Let’s go by car.” It is a useful feature in everyday life where there is a lot of noise, but in situations where ‘pronunciation’ is important for reasons such as language development education, this type of ‘correction’ can be quite a cause for concern. However, a startup company called ‘Neopons’ has a different app. This app is mainly used by children for language development, and one of its main functions is to measure the accuracy of pronunciation and let you know whether it was wrong or right. While most devices judge incorrect pronunciation as ‘dummy data’, this function is possible because an algorithm is applied to determine pronunciation accuracy by analyzing the user’s speech by syllable. However, there is a domestic company that is spending quite a lot of money to support this startup. This is ‘Samsung Electronics’. Samsung Electronics provides hundreds of millions of dollars in support to companies that develop apps through a startup support program called ‘C Lab Outside’. Why on earth is Samsung investing so much money in this company? Find out why in the video!
Planning: Ha Hyun-jong / Filming: Jeong Hoon Kim Jun-yeon / Editing: Jeong Hye-su / Design CG: Kim Tae-hwa / Assistant director: Kim Da-som, intern Lee Myeong-cheol / Directing: Park Gyeong-heum / Assisting intern Kim Yun-jin
(SBS News)
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