Hyundai Motor Group Unveils Self-Developed AI Translation App 'H-Translator'

[Asia Economy Reporter Su-yeon Woo] Hyundai Motor Group has developed a proprietary translation mobile application (hereinafter referred to as the app) specialized for the automotive industry to enhance smooth collaboration through strengthened communication between domestic and overseas employees.

On the 18th, Hyundai Motor Group unveiled the machine translation app 'H-Translator,' based on an artificial neural network (a type of artificial intelligence algorithm that mimics the neural network form responsible for information processing in the brain), which allows free communication in Korean and English via mobile devices.

H-Translator enables sentence translation between Korean and English, document and screen photo translation, and real-time chatroom translation functions. It supports input not only by text but also by voice, and provides a feature to convert the input content into sound for verification. Notably, H-Translator is the first in Korea to apply real-time chatroom translation functionality, allowing employees located overseas to exchange conversations in real time through text or voice input in mobile meeting chatrooms.

Hyundai Motor Group AI Translation App 'H Translator' / Photo by Hyundai Motor Group

H-Translator was developed as rapid communication and enhanced work efficiency between domestic and overseas employees became increasingly important due to Hyundai Motor Group's active recruitment of overseas talent in future technology research and development sectors. The development was undertaken by the group's AI technology development division, 'AIRS Company.'

In addition to this translation app, the artificial neural network-based machine translation technology that Hyundai Motor Group has been actively developing since last year has also been internationally recognized for its quality. AIRS Company and the Kangwon National University industry-academia joint research team ranked first in all five categories of patent translation at the Asian translation quality evaluation competition 'wat' held last year.

The translation algorithm developed in-house by Hyundai Motor Group and applied to H-Translator provides world-class translation quality specialized in the automotive industry, covering not only smooth communication between languages but also technical, mechanical, software, and mobility terminology. Beyond translation for employee communication, it is expected to lay the foundation for future development of translators for general users, embedded in vehicles or robots.

A Hyundai Motor Group official stated, "We plan to advance artificial neural network-based machine translation technologies such as machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and character recognition, expand the languages available for translation including Chinese (Han characters), and also equip related technologies in wearable devices."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.