Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (President Lim Ki-cheol) announced on the twenty sixth that it’s receiving an excellent response from foreign students because of this of pilot operation of the synthetic intelligence (AI) voice recognition automatic translation system in-built the classroom.

The voice recognition automatic translation system, currently being piloted within the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering classroom (Room 210), provides real-time translation of Korean speech into English.

The AI ​​voice recognition automatic translation system transmits Korean audio signals collected in real time within the classroom to its own web server. The transmitted audio signal is converted into English sentences through an AI-based voice recognition and translation model and sent to the classroom.

AI-based voice signal processing technology was developed by Professor Kim Hong-guk's research team within the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. It’s currently showing an accuracy of over 90%, and the interpretation accuracy is anticipated to extend further if AI is repeatedly taught the technical terms utilized in major classes and seminars.

The proportion of foreign graduate students at GIST reaches 10% (130 out of 1,338 enrolled students). Particularly, within the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, the proportion of foreign students amongst enrolled students is roughly 20% (35 out of 184).

Professor Kim Hong-guk said, “It’s meaningful in that we will provide equal educational opportunities to foreign students in the tutorial field through automatic translation technology.” He added, “To expand online automatic translation-based education in the longer term, we are going to upgrade this pilot construction to incorporate GIST regular subjects.” “It is anticipated that it will probably be applied extensively,” he said.

Reporter Oh Deok-hwan odh@aitimes.com