ETRI has developed technology to convert human voice to text in real time. Recognizing voice in nine languages including Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese, the technology achieves up to 95% accuracy in daily conversation.
This technology was developed using a large volume of data based on deep-learning technology, a part of ETRI’s artificial intelligence technology. It can be expanded to other languages including Hindi and East Asian languages after securing various core technologies to process multiple spoken languages, including technology for automatic refinement of large-capacity data related to big data and technology to produce multilingual pronunciation.

Information security is becoming increasingly significant in hyper-connected society where everything is closely linked. ETRI’s Information Security Research Division of the Hyper-connected Communication Research Laboratory held a Security Pop-up Showcase as a means to raise awareness of information security against the background of the imminent Fourth Industrial Revolution and hyper-connected society and to emphasize the importance of information security. The showcase drew much interest from participants with seven security technologies including intelligent security, system security, and FinTech security.

A team of ETRI researchers has successfully developed broadcasting platform technology to provide main event images automatically produced based on baseball, basketball, or other sports game images and text-message information. The automated technology allows viewers to select main images and watch them in real time. The images have quality close to that of manually edited footage, and viewers can access those images within tens of seconds.
This technology will be particularly beneficial to viewers who miss important moments in a sports game or want to re-watch their favorite scenes.

ETRI signed an MOU with the Korean Intellectual Property Office to develop an AI service for patents. The agreement was a result of a shared understanding that close cooperation is necessary for mutual exchange of AI technology and information to apply AI technology, an integral part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to the patent industry.

At approximately 6:50 a.m. on May 5, Koreasat 7 was successfully launched in French Guiana in South America. This made Korea an operator of four geosynchronous and communications satellites, including Koreasat 5 and 6 and Chollian satellite.
Koreasat 7 is particularly significant in that the ground control system was domestically produced based on technologies secured by ETRI in the project to develop the Chollian communications satellite. This is also the first case of commercializing a ground control system developed with domestic technologies. The achievement will not only replace the ground control system imported for satellites launched in Korea, but also lay groundwork for commercializing and exporting a ground control system.

ETRI is about to export its DMB technology to Vietnam. Developed in 2003, ETRI’s DMB (digital multimedia broadcasting) technology resulted in highly convenient service to watch television with a smartphone while on the move.
With the technology, an eight-channel service will be launched for Ho Chi Minh City in partnership with SDTV, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s state-run broadcaster Ho Chi Minh City Television. This will allow Korean DMB device manufacturers to export the total solution technology for terrestrial DMB. In return, Vietnam is also expected to witness an expanding DMB service platform.