U-STAR Releases VoiceTra4U-M App

The Universal Speech Translation Advanced Research Consortium (U-STAR) has released an app that lets up to five users communicate in different languages in real time, either face to face or remotely.

U-STAR, made up of researchers from 23 countries, developed two applications for the network-based S2ST system, VoiceTra4U-M (for multiple devices), which are implemented with ITU-T standardization protocols F.745 and H.625.

The application contributes to break barriers of modalities other than language as well, the company said. For instance, it helps users to communicate with the visually impaired via spoken word, or with the hearing-impaired via text input. This application mainly targets the field of travel-related conversations in airports, hotels, shops, or restaurants and covers 23 Asian and European languages.

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