OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Limited and FueTrek Co., Ltd. today announced Fujitsu's introduction of its MobileSUITE Voice Operation service and development kit. The service, which enables text input with technical vocabulary and control by voice alone, will be available in Japan from October 1. Both voice and text input features are only available in Japanese but support for other languages is being considered. The service is currently only available in Japan.

This is being offered as a new option for FUJITSU Cloud PaaS MobileSUITE, the mobile service platform, with a speech applications-programming interface (API)(footnote 1) for developers creating apps for smart devices. This service lets developers create business systems and services that can be controlled by voice commands, and makes it easy to develop mobile apps that can recognize technical vocabulary, increasing the convenience of apps for their users.

The new service is powered by vGate voice-recognition technology from FueTrek, and is the first collaboration between Fujitsu and FueTrek. The two companies plan to continue working together to augment their voice-based services in the future.

In recent years, with the utilization of smart devices such as smartphones and tablets, there is a desire to create new work styles and improve operational performance. Fujitsu and FueTrek, with its strengths in voice-recognition technology, are introducing new voice services for business systems.

The combination of MobileSUITE and FueTrek's voice recognition technology are being made available as MobileSUITE Voice Operation, a service for voice-driven control to make work more efficient, as well as a development kit. While voice services are increasingly available at the consumer level, technical vocabulary is necessary in business contexts. This service makes it easy for developers to create speech-driven apps that can control business systems and other Internet-based services, while recognizing technical vocabulary.

So, for example, a user could say to a smartphone, "Show me tablets that can be shipped this month, sorted by price" or "Reserve a conference room next week on a day that A, B, and C are free for one hour," and the results from both a business system and a services API on the Internet can be displayed.