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Zoom continues to improve their features, one of which is to make communication easier. Photo: ist
CALIFORNIA – Zoom announced that it has acquired Kites (Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), an artificial intelligence (AI) company engaged in real-time language translation and transcription.
Zoom says the acquisition is a move to help users communicate with people who speak different languages more easily.
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The company also wants to add translation capabilities to its video conferencing app.
Kites itself comes from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the technology was originally developed as an in-class translation for students who need help understanding English or German taught by their professors, as quoted from The Verge, Wednesday (30/6/2021).
Currently Zoom itself already has a real-time language translation feature. But unfortunately, it only supports English.
Even Zoom admits that the real-time translation feature is not very accurate.
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After the Kites acquisition, Zoom is rumored to be opening a research center in Germany so that the Kites team can continue to work on developing real-time translation software in multiple languages.
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