AIspace COVID-19 Support Programme

These are difficult times. We are partnering Ricoh Asia Pacific to make the AIspace COVID-19 Support Program available in nine Asian countries - Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

AIspace is an enterprise storage, collaboration and document management platform that is infused with Artificial Intelligence. This COVID-19 Support Package consist of: 5 Users Accounts, 50 GB Storage, 500 Document AI credits, 500 Image AI credits.

Note: Package terminates automatically after 3 months free usage. Therefore, this is 100% obligation free!

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

World’s First Unified Search Engine
World’s first platform that allow you to “Search Everything” (deep search inside documents, images, audio and video)

Document A.I. (Natural Language Processing)
summaries main document points without the need to read documents!

Image A.I. (Computer Vision)
recognizes thousands of objects and scenes to make image instantly searchable!

Video A.I (Speech Recognition)
Enabling your to deep search videos! (Launching in June)

Collaboration Suite 
Collaborate and share files securely internally and externally.

Document Life-cycle (with version control)
Full-featured Document Management System.

Military-grade security
multiple layers of military grade security to ensure the security of your data.

Our response to COVID-19 - A message from our CEO

Hi!

Some weeks ago, we launched our first response to COVID-19 with Videospace's "The show must go on!" message. The objective is to reach out to businesses which might need a video platform to ensure business continuity. We were encouraged by the response, so we went back and spoke to a business partner about making an another impact, in another area.

Hence, before we officially launch our second response to COVID-19 with the AIspace Support Programme, I would like to acknowledge Ricoh Asia Pacific for this partnership. 

I would like to extend a big THANK YOU to the team at Ricoh Asia Pacific for believing in our cause, and putting resources to make this COVID-19 support programme possible throughout Asia. Allow me to quote myself in my first response... 

“In times like this... I believe we need to help each other to ride this out. Business is an eco-system, no one wins by being the last one standing. I much rather we stand together till the end of this crisis."  Alex Chan, Babbobox CEO

That is the Power of Partnership!

In the meantime, please stay tuned as we make our final preparations and make the announcement in the coming days. 

I wish you the best of health. Stay indoors! Stay safe!

Yours sincerely,
 
Alex Chan
CEO, Babbobox

KEEP CALM and CARRY ON Part II - Video Live Transcription (Beta)

About a month ago, we launched our first beta (Translated Machine Speech) during this COVID-19 period. Barely a month passed, we are at it again! This time, our beta is Video Live Transcription. This is done while delivering video via live-streaming in high definition.

That’s our CEO, Alex doing a test live-stream from home.

Hang on… you might think. Isn’t this been done before? The answer would be yes. We have probably experienced some form of live transcribing before on TV or on video conferencing platforms. BUT doing this for a live video event on a live-stream is a totally different matter.

Those who can deliver this is limited a handful of broadcasters with specialized equipment. Also, if budget is not a problem, one can even get a team of human transcribers to provide live captions. However, this also means it’s expensive and not exactly scalable. That’s the reason why we don’t see live transcribing much at all on broadcast or live-streaming.

Just ask anyone in broadcast, they would appreciate the difficulties in delivering a service like this. Getting the live transcription is one thing, but getting the live caption or subtitles in sync with the video and audio feed is a totally thing.

Providing live captions has the following benefits:

• Improves Accessibility - especially for hearing-impaired. Making your event more inclusive.

• Increases Engagement - provide better comprehension of what is said

• Improves Comprehension - longer view times and more interaction with your brand

So this is what this beta is about. It is to provide these benefits with a simple and highly affordable video live transcription service along with your live-stream.

If you this might be useful to you, please write to me! Or forward this to someone whom you think might be useful. Please note that my COVID-19 message applies. 

Yours sincerely,

Alex Chan
CEO, Babbobox

KEEP CALM and CARRY ON - Translated Machine Speech (Beta)

What a time to launch a beta! Right in the middle of a lock-down from a global pandemic. Even while we are all indoors grappling and making adjustments to the current situation, we need to live and work as normally as we can. Our team had a long chat about this and decided that we must press on, including innovation. 

The objective of this beta is rather simple - To convert a video into multiple languages using machine speech. 

Perhaps you have read my COVID-19 message a couple of weeks ago, here's the short version in Hindi (with machine speech). Or you can listen to the same message in 9 different languages HERE

The video is based on my original English version, but I have no idea how accurate it is since I don't understand Hindi. However, to improve accuracy, users can edit both the original and target language text before finalizing the audio. 

There is a story to this beta. The idea came from a client about a year ago. They needed to overcome the language barrier so to spread their message to different countries and communities. While subtitling helps, but it's just not the same as speech. We were too engaged with other work then to do anything about it, but it has always been on the back of my mind. So fast forward one year, the beta is born. 

Translated Machine Speech is available in 45 languages. Some languages are available in both male and female voices. 

We think this can solve some real world problems. It is particularly useful for global engagements, speeches, announcements, lessons, training, sermons, news, etc. But we are limited by what we know. Thus, we would love to work with some real world scenarios and shape this into something useful. 

If you can think of a scenario, please write to me! Or forward this to someone whom you think might be useful. Please note that my COVID-19 message applies. 

Stay indoors! Stay safe! Stay healthy! But most importantly, stay positive!

Yours sincerely,

Alex Chan
CEO, Babbobox