To all shareholders and investors

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our shareholders for their continued support.

During this consolidated fiscal year, sales of AI voice recognition AmiVoice and related products and services progressed steadily, driven by the growing need for AI to improve productivity in businesses. As a result, BSR^#1Both BSR2 and our company achieved increased revenue, marking five consecutive years of revenue growth for our entire group. We have also achieved record-high sales, operating profit, and net profit attributable to parent company shareholders. In light of these results and current market trends, we believe the time has finally come to leverage the strengths we have cultivated through our previous market development in speech recognition—namely, Japanese language, speech recognition, and industry specialization—to take on the challenge of developing the AI ​​market.

With the remarkable advancements in generative AI and AI agents in recent years, the reality of AI taking over human jobs is becoming apparent. However, it is also true that it is not AI that will take jobs, but rather other people who have acquired the skills to utilize it. Therefore, AISH should view this not as a threat, but as an opportunity, and for people to actively utilize AI to ensure the continuity and development of their businesses and their own work.^#2This should be seen as the dawn of a new era.

To ride the wave of this era, our company will spread the AISH platform to the world, which provides an environment where each individual can improve their work efficiency and effectiveness and work comfortably. This is a voice AI that can also be linked with generative AI and AI agents.^#3It is a collection of various AIs developed in-house, and personalization.^#4Our technology ensures safe use. Furthermore, we aim to be a company that promotes the creation of a society where the utilization of AI, which is needed by society, is commonplace, through voice AI.

Going forward, our company will set a profit target for the fiscal year ending March 2027, the final year of the BSR expansion phase, at the same level as the previous year. By achieving our sales and profit plans, we will create a business structure that will significantly increase sales and profits during the three-year AISH implementation and deployment phase from the fiscal year ending March 2028 onward.

We will continue to work together as a group to improve our corporate value by increasing business value, and we ask for the continued support and encouragement of our shareholders.

*1 BSR (Beyond Speech Recognition) is the idea that a large market can be developed by shifting the market development of speech recognition from being centered on the sale of speech recognition products to an approach that follows the "needs of customer companies".
*2 AISH (AI Super Humanization) refers to using AI to improve work efficiency and effectiveness, and to making work more enjoyable by having AI as a partner.
*3 Voice AI refers to AI that operates through voice communication with humans. This assumes that the AI ​​is "voice-activated" (Voice AI Enable).
*4 Personalization refers to learning and customization using proprietary, non-public data for the specific purposes of the client company or individual user. This ensures the quality and accuracy of the output in a secure manner.