Message from the President

The world is excited about the future that generative AI such as Chat GPT will pave the way for. This is nothing less than a desire for a future where AI will provide what we need and what we want in response to prompts (commands) from humans. It is now easy to imagine a future where prompts to AI will be done by voice rather than by keyboard or tap, and where voice communication will become extremely important.

This can be seen as a major achievement of our efforts in developing the voice recognition market in both Japan and the United States, based on our vision of "realizing natural communication between people and machines and creating a prosperous future."

Starting with the development of speech recognition technology that can respond to natural speech with high accuracy that no other company can imitate, we have established hybrid AI speech recognition technology that incorporates deep learning, which triggered the third AI boom, in addition to adapting acoustic models using data accumulated for each purpose, training large-scale language models (LLMs), and evolving AI speech recognition technology that incorporates knowledge representation from the second wave of AI. We have always considered how to use speech recognition to create what customers need, and by developing and providing these, we have achieved the No. 2 share in the speech recognition software and cloud service market. ^{※ 1}We have established a position as a

From now on, we would like to further evolve the AI ​​voice recognition "AmiVoice" that we have pioneered in Japan and have been deploying, and respond to the needs of society. First of all, we will introduce voice AI apps/services that are based on voice processing.^{※ 2}and the introduction of apps/services that improve the media value of corporate owned media.^{※ 3}By utilizing these technologies, AISH aims to contribute to the promotion of digital transformation (DX), an urgent issue in Japan, and to create a society where people and AI can coexist and enhance each other's excellent capabilities.^{※ 4}We invite you to join us on this revolutionary journey.

• *1 Source: ecarlate LLC "Speech Recognition Market Trends 2024" Software/Cloud Services Market
• *2 Voice AI such as the virtual agent AI avatar AOI (AmiVoice Ontology Integrated) and the automatic AI response service ISR (Interactive Speech Responder) Studio in the call center field, as well as work companions and AI partners such as the "voice keyboard" "AmiVoice VK," the "voice mouse" "AmiVoice VM," and the "speech board" "AmiVoice SB," which provide efficiency and comfort by replacing keyboard and mouse operations on a PC and flick input on a smartphone with voice.
• *3 A UPV (User Preference Viewer) service that enables companies to easily and inexpensively introduce an online interview acquisition function to their websites.
• *4 AISH (AI Super Humanization) is a concept that describes how AI helps people and how people use AI to enhance their capabilities. It also describes how people and AI can coexist by combining the best of each other, including human wisdom that surpasses AI.