Mitsubishi Electric develops multilingual translation system for conferences

Mitsubishi Electric stated Tuesday that it has developed a prototype for a multilingual system that reveals phrases on a display in several languages.

The Japanese firm hopes that the system shall be used on events reminiscent of morning meeting conferences at factories the place info must be associated precisely to numerous staff, together with non-Japanese ones.

Mitsubishi Electric goals to place the system into industrial use as early as fiscal 2025, which begins in April subsequent 12 months. The firm additionally expects the system for use for tourism functions.

The system interprets a ready script written in Japanese into 17 different languages, with the display exhibiting sentences in 4 languages, together with authentic Japanese sentences, without delay.

In order to forestall translation errors, the system incorporates a perform for translating the non-Japanese sentences again into Japanese, making it simpler for folks to tweak their scripts.

Mitsubishi Electric has been conducting a take a look at run of the system at its plant in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, since December final 12 months. Around 20% to 30% of the plant’s staff are overseas nationals.

Over 90% of overseas staff there stated that the multilingual system helped them perceive morning meeting conferences higher, based on the corporate.