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National Speech Corpus
Chatbot demo integrating ASR and TTS software on show at IMDA SG:D Industry Day
The chatbot, SG Restaurant, is able to accurately take spoken orders and read back orders in a Singaporean accent.
NSC was used by Sentient.io's AI and Data Platform to make building applications easier for developers
The NSC dataset has been used by Sentient.io to train the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) microservices, enabling it to recognise and transcribe Singapore accented speech.
NSC enabled Sentient.io's AI speech microservices to understand Singapore accents and speech more accurately than Siri and Alexa
Sentient.io's founder shares about how their natural language processing (NLP) draws on NSC to understand and transcribe Singapore speech more accurately than Siri, Google Home and Alexa.
DSL's project collaborations with Sentient.io was featured in ST
DSL collaborated with Sentient.io to develop their defining products: chatbots recognising local lingo for banks, and subtitling services for media companies.
NSC enhanced with 1,000 hours of natural voice recording
Straits Times' report on NSC V2.0 which added 1,000 hours of Conversational Speech, an update of NSC V1.0 which comprised of 2,000 Read Speech.
The National Speech Corpus was presented at INTERSPEECH 2019
IMDA DSL’s “Building the Singapore English National Speech Corpus” paper was accepted and presented at the INTERSPEECH 2019 conference held in Austria.
OCBC’s collaboration with IMDA
Head of E-Business of OCBC Bank, Mr. Pranav Seth shared how OCBC was working with IMDA to provide a uniquely Singaporean voice for their chat-bot, “EMMA”.
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Artificial intelligence library with voice sample in Singapore English to launch in 2018
Straits Times’ coverage on the launch of IMDA’s AI library with voice samples in Singapore.
Singapore embraces AI with open source libraries and talent development
IMDA’s announcement on initiatives in Artificial Intelligence (AI), consisting of the National Speech Corpus V1.0, Intelligent Sensing Toolbox and the AI Talent Development programme.
NSC is used by AISG in the development of SCDF Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR995) engine
The NSC has been used by AISG to develop the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Automatic Speech Recognition engine (ASR995) to understand locally accented English.
5G
PSA makes waves in the future of maritime operations
Port Of Singapore Authority embarked on 5G trials to automate parts of its operations to drive future-ready port solutions.
Levelling up the game play experience with the first 5G mmWave cloud gaming trial in Singapore
Razer, the world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers, levels up the game play experience with the first 5G mmWave cloud gaming trial in Singapore.
Airbus and M1 launch first 5G aerial standalone trial in Singapore
To experiment and explore the possibilities that 5G can bring for autonomous vehicles, CapitaLand partnered with NavInfo to conduct 5G cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) trials at Singapore’s largest 5G estate.
Securing a greener future with 5G-enabled autonomous vehicles
This is the thought behind the 5G trial project with IMDA undertaken by CapitaLand in partnership with NavInfo, which explores the autonomous vehicle space that’s paving the future of mobility.
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