Google's AI assistant to speak and understand Korean later this year

By Park Sae-jin Posted : May 18, 2017, 15:41 Updated : May 18, 2017, 15:41

[Courtesy of Google]


Google's new artificial intelligence-based voice assistant will understand and answer in Korean later this year as competition grows in South Korea to take the upper hand in the fledgling market for AI assistant software.

AI-based voice assistants detect the voice of users and provide appropriate information. Currently, Apple's Siri is the only foreign-made voice assistant software fully supporting the Korean language. Homemade AI assistant software has been developed by Samsung and Naver this year.

During a developer conference in California, Google Assistant vice president Scott Huffman said Google's AI assistant will work in more languages soon with languages like Korean, Italian and Spanish, to be added later this year.

So far, Google, Amazon and Intel have failed to win over South Korean consumers as their AI assistant software doses not fully understand and speak Korean

When Google's AI assistant officially supports Korean, South Korea could become a new test bed for the industry. South Korea has many data communications and O2O (online to offline) services, backed by the vast infrastructure of mobile and telecommunications networks.

The global AI assistant industry, which is expected to grow to 12.28 billion US dollars in 2024, is considered a key point of the Fourth Industrial Revolution along with autonomous driving and robotics.

Park Sae-jin = swatchsjp@ajunews.com





 
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