Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for mixed Cantonese, English and Mandarin markets

Overview

Customisable chatbot solution adaptable to different industry domains in mixed Cantonese, English and Mandarin environments.

  • Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for mixed Cantonese, English and Mandarin markets
Technical name of innovation
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for mixed Cantonese, English and Mandarin markets
Research completion
2019/3/1
Commercialisation opportunities
IP licensing-Technology co-development
Problem addressed

Most chatbot solutions on the market are not capable of recognising conversations with mixed use of Cantonese, English, and Mandarin. Most chatbot solutions offer limited customisation capabilities for users to update knowledgebases with domain-specific vocabularies. Customisable chatbots are not user-friendly for non-technical users.

Innovation
  • Speech recognition engine that can recognise and segregate voices of multiple speakers in a group conversation
  • Voicebot that can respond to inquiries in the corresponding language
  • Domain-specific database management platform for non-IT users to build and customise client-specific knowledgebase
  • Big data and NLP analysis for analysing enquiries that are not supported by prior data training or any existing keywords databases
  • Real-time language analysis with automated punctuation insertion into transcribed texts
  • Version control enabling transparent updates and minimizing interference
  • Server-based system offering enhanced security to accommodate sensitive client information and to reduce cost for future modifications
Key impact
  • Improved customer experience in client-facing operations
  • Enhanced operational efficiency of transcribing interviews and reports 
  • Improved risk management with real-time analysis of digitized contents
  • Scalable deployment across different industry domains supported 
Application
  • Automated customer service
  • Real-time transcription in various industries
  • Audio recording compliance analysis
  • Automated email sorting by purpose

Patent

  • US App. No. 16/818,702; CN App. No. 202080000380.2 and HK App. No. 62021026953.1
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.

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