"Finding Voices of the Hearing Impaired with AI" KT, Recruiting Until the 30th

[Asia Economy Reporter Koo Chae-eun] KT is recruiting participants for the ‘Voice Finder’ project, which creates voices using artificial intelligence (AI) technology, from the 9th to the 30th.

Voice Finder is the first project of KT’s corporate campaign ‘Sharing the Heart.’ This project began with the aim of alleviating everyday inconveniences through technology that helps improve life. Eligible participants are those who have lost their hearing from birth or have lost their voice for various reasons. To create a natural voice, it is essential to have at least two same-gender family members within the second degree of kinship who can participate in the recording process. For female participants, this includes their mother, sister, or daughter.

Selected participants will receive a voice created through AI technology. KT plans to provide a mobile application that allows users to communicate with family and acquaintances in daily life using this voice. The app’s main features are ‘Play My Voice’ and ‘Real-Time Voice Call.’ Using ‘Play My Voice,’ users can have text messages entered into the app read aloud to the other party.

‘Real-Time Voice Call’ helps hearing-impaired users communicate in real time by sending messages, while the other party uses voice. When text is entered into the app during a call, the other party hears the synthesized voice, and the other party’s voice is converted into text and displayed. This project uses ‘Personalized Text-to-Speech (P-TTS)’ and ‘AI Deep Learning (repetitive learning)’ technologies researched by KT Convergence Technology Institute. The voice data is created from the voice of the same-gender family member with the highest voice similarity, and the participant’s individual characteristics such as gender, age, and oral structure are reflected to generate a voice that incorporates the beneficiary’s unique tone, pitch, and speech style.

Lee Seon-joo, Head of KT’s Sustainable Management Division (Senior Executive Director), said, “This Voice Finder project started with the heartfelt wish of people who want to say ‘I love you’ directly to their loved ones,” adding, “KT will continue to strive to improve the lives of the people by embracing each individual’s heart through warm technology.”

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