In about three seconds, I received the latter voice message in English. VoiceTra was developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which is under the supervision of the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. As Japan is receiving more and more foreign visitors and workers, NICT has been developing multilingual translation technologies in earnest since 2014. Google’s innovationTechnology for machine translation emerged in the 1950s. Around the 1990s, a technology called “statistical machine translation” emerged.
