Together with partners from industry and research, the Fraunhofer Institutes IIS and IAIS are developing an AI-based voice assistant platform for business-to-business applications.

With voice assistant systems, people and technology can interact via spoken, natural language. In medicine and care, for example, this enables the intuitive and hands-free documentation of disease progression and diagnoses. Artificial intelligence supports medical staff in this process through efficient data aggregation and evaluation. Processes in industry, service and administration can also be made more efficient and reliable with speech assistance.

The necessary infrastructures, technology modules and standards will be developed within the framework of the "SPEAKER" project. The system is going to implement European standards of data security. The platform can be individually adapted to the terminologies, workflows and needs of the respective industry. The pilot applications are developed in close cooperation with the future users in order to be able to transfer the first prototypes directly into the application.

SPEAKER is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi, FKZ: 01MK20011A). The implementation phase has been running since 1 April 2020. Further information on the project and the partners involved can be found at: www.speaker.fraunhofer.de