[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] Naver's voice recording artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Clova Note’ is officially expanding globally, starting with its service launch in Japan.
Naver announced on the 24th that it has released the Japanese version of Clova Note.
The basic functions are almost identical to the Korean version. When users record Japanese speech directly in the app or upload a file, it is converted into text, and features such as bookmarking, note-taking, and search are included.
As with the Korean version, speaker differentiation is also possible. However, some features such as sharing, video conference integration, and simultaneous multilingual recognition will be updated later. Korean and English recognition are expected to be provided within the first half of the year.
Naver applied HyperClova technology to Clova’s proprietary Japanese speech recognition engine ‘NEST (Neural End-to-end Speech Transcriber)’ in the Japanese version of Clova Note to improve accuracy. It also efficiently enhanced performance by applying a self-supervised learning technique that can utilize unlabeled data for AI training.
Clova Note continues its growth in Korea, surpassing 2.3 million cumulative downloads. Due to an increase in student users at the beginning of the semester, the number of users last month nearly doubled compared to January, reaching 470,000.
Naver is continuously advancing the service based on AI technology. Recently, Chinese was added as a recognized language, enabling voice recognition for Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese. In February, a multilingual recognition feature was introduced that can recognize speech mixing Korean and English.
Convenience features have also been enhanced, such as AI extracting ‘key keywords’ to quickly check and navigate the main contents of voice notes, and the ability to mark important content with ‘highlights.’
A major content summarization feature utilizing the language model of the large-scale AI ‘HyperClova’ is also scheduled to be released soon. Naver plans to apply Clova Note to meeting rooms in its recently opened new headquarters ‘1784’ for internal meeting minutes management.
Naver plans to sequentially launch Clova Note in North America and Asian markets in the second half of the year, starting with Japan, expanding its global business.
Han Ik-sang, Naver’s lead responsible, said, "The biggest differentiator of Clova Note is its unparalleled speech recognition performance based on Naver’s voice AI technology," adding, "We will continue to expand service regions and strive to provide global users with the convenience of AI voice recording in their daily lives."
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