Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Our core competence is the speech synthesis technology. Furthermore, operation and maintenance of servers in the data center, building services and applications using telephone network are some of our business. We plan and operate from the basic research stage until the actual application stage.


[Business description]
Provide from the research and development of speech synthesis to a wide variety of services using voice language technology.
We provide Japanese speech synthesis engine "SpeeCAN" and the "SpeeCAN RAIDEN" service to simultaneously deliver message as e-mail, phone, and FAX, which is a tool for information sharing or part of BCP (Business Continuity Planning). In addition to this, we develop and sell applications for PC and for smartphones, as well.


[Industry]
Software development industry (Internet communication service industry)

[Strength of products/technologies]
Our currently released Japanese speech synthesis technology, is widely adopted in the field of disaster prevention/management administrative radio communication network, car navigation, broadcasting inside station, and also game software. We receive a high rating for the quality of our voice data for public broadcasting.

[Representative's message]
Inbound tourist arrivals to Japan increase significantly, and the trend will continue in the future towards the Tokyo Olympic Games. In addition, on the other hand, economic development in Asian countries have been progressing rapidly, and it is expected that social infrastructure such as transportation will be developed gradually. We believe that the demand for speech synthesis technology in multiple language will increase for both domestic and foreign markets, which motivates us to expand the market share of our company.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
In order to build our overseas sales channels, since 2 years ago (2013), we have visited San Francisco, Singapore, Shanghai, etc. In addition, since July 2015, an Indonesian national has joined us as a board member. We also have done business trip to Jakarta, about 3 times.

[Market share/Ranking]
"SpeeCAN", "SpeeCAN RAIDEN" are actively serving more than 250 local governments in Japan (out of 1700 local governments).

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
Acoustic Core: 2007 Acoustical Society of Japan, Technology Development Award
Venture Expo'96 Excellence Award (sponsored by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.)

[Media expose]
An introduction of our new product "SpeeCAN RAIDEN": "All at once phone notifications using synthetic voice," May 8, 2008.

[Authorization/Certification]
Privacy Mark, ASP SaaS, acquired ISMS JISQ27001:2014 (ISO / IEC27001: 20013), Telecommunications Business Report Number: E-23-03459

[Joint research and development]
With Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) for research and development of noise removal algorithm utilizing the auditory model.
With Kobe University for daily life support application development for the autistic child.
With Nara Women's University for development of handwriting learning support application for children with learning disabilities.
With Ritsumeikan University for audio/speech interface, etc.


[Intellectual property]
Patent: speech synthesis control device (Japanese Patent Application No. 2003-036524 ) Other 5,
Trademark VOICE AID (registration number 5036802) Other 13

[Factory (domestic)]
Osaka

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
Contract work with NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, and other companies R&D divisions, for the development of database used in speech recognition. Provide language processing technology to companies such as IncrementP, provide speech synthesis technology for usage in fire fighting broadcast to NEC, provide voice data for disaster prevention management radio communication network, also contract work with US Google Inc. to localize speech recognition for Japanese.

[Exhibition History/Information]
Shinsai Expo Osaka 1st, 2nd, 3rd