United Associates Voucher Project

Smart home platform technology for AI learning assistant for English conversation

This ICT Innovation Voucher project was sponsored by the government to support R&D activities for a startup company called United Associates, whose business model was to launch services aiming to help elementary school pupils to learn and improve their English-speaking capabilities. In addition to generating English sentences to converse, the project developed additional technologies supporting linguistic communication such as empathetic Chatbot, personalization, and recommendation, plus technologies supporting visual appearance such as facial expression and gesture generation of the avatars. The company United Associate has developed the product successfully, and is providing the services actively.