Depo's Innovations in Voice Translation Technology

Depo revolutionizes communication by enhancing spoken language translation with security and quality for regulated industries.

### Advancing Language Translation: Innovative Voice Solutions by Depo
* 🌐 Since 2017, Depo has been enhancing business communication through text translation, helping customers **bridge language gaps** in emails and documents from various languages, including Japanese.
* 🎤 The next step for Depo is to tackle spoken language translation, addressing challenges faced in meetings where participants may **not understand English**, ensuring everyone can **engage in conversations**.
* 🏪 Additionally, Depo recognizes the need for **effective communication** in retail and healthcare settings, where individuals may need to **converse in unfamiliar languages**, and aims to provide **technological solutions** for these scenarios.
* 🔒 What sets Depo apart is its commitment to applying **high-quality textual translation standards** to voice translation, emphasizing **security functionalities tailored for regulated industries** such as finance and law.
* 🤖 Although voice translation poses complexities due to the nuances of spoken language, including **punctuation and sentence structure**, Depo is actively working on improving its technology to **enhance clarity and accuracy**.
* 📈 Despite the challenges, Depo's current solutions are already delivering **significant value to customers**, indicating a **promising future** for the development of voice translation capabilities.
* ⏳ The journey to perfecting voice translation technology is ongoing, with expectations for **continuous advancements in the coming years** to achieve **reliable and effective communication across languages**.

Now, Jarrett, just talk us through what these two products are that you're releasing and how different they are from what's already on the market. Yes. Hi, Caroline. So, Depo has been since 2017 facilitating businesses to communicate much better with text translation. So think about the email that you want to send to a customer on the other side of the ocean. Or think about documents that you've just received, which is in Japanese, and we've been helping our customers with that. And the next logical kind of frontier for us has been spoken language. Think of all of those meetings that you might be in where if there is a person who doesn't understand English and how can they follow? How can they be included in that in that conversation? This is something that we're really focusing on right now. The second challenge out there, we have people who are kind of coming in into retail stores, coming maybe to a health care provider, and they'd have to they

have to participate in a conversation in a language that they potentially do not know. Technology can solve that. And to have the quality that we have, that's that that improves it quite a lot. Yeah. In the context of the one-on-one conversation and translation, I'm so interested in that. You know, when I was at Medic Connect, frankly, I've seen it already done, but the form factor was the Ray-Ban meta smart glasses, right? So Zuckerberg's on stage, he speaks in English, the person sitting in front of him answered in Spanish, etc. Again, going back to Carrie's question, how is yours any different to what's been demonstrated already? Yeah, I think what we are doing here is we applying the quality of textual translation. That bell is known in the market for bringing in the security functionalities that we have, where we are providing our services to a broad range of industries which are highly regulated, financial or legal.

And bringing that now to the realm of voice translation. So security is your edge. Perhaps already the market that you own with certain clients is already on edge. Where next and how ultimately difficult is this? We can all suddenly be like, Oh, well, translation and how? Why do I? Am I not getting better and quicker and voice translation rather than it just written? But how difficult is this to train your latest large language models on the variety of languages out there? Spoken language is so much inherently more complicated than written language. It's just the sentences are much more unclear. There's like even finding out where the comma or well, the full stop is in a spoken sentence. It's much more complicated. And therefore, the technology still has to develop over the next years to get to a level where we'll be fully confident in having those conversations. But already now, for our customers, this is bringing a lot of value in their in

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Depo has been facilitating text translation for businesses since 2017 and is now expanding into spoken language translation.

The new products aim to help individuals in meetings and retail or healthcare settings where they need to communicate in a language they don't know.

Depo's unique approach focuses on applying the quality of textual translation and providing services to highly regulated industries, offering security functionalities.

Voice translation is more complex than written translation due to the inherent difficulties of spoken language, such as unclear sentences and the challenge of identifying punctuation.

Training large language models on a variety of languages adds to the difficulty.

Despite these challenges, the technology is expected to develop over the next few years, already providing significant value to customers.

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