Multilingual Speech Translation Application

VoiceTra is an application software developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (hereinafter referred to as “NICT”). By using VoiceTra you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms, which together with our privacy policy govern NICT’s relationship with you in relation to VoiceTra. If you disagree with any part of these terms, the use of VoiceTra would not be allowed.

1. Users who agree to the Terms of Use (hereinafter "Users") are eligible to use VoiceTra for the purpose of performance evaluation and for making improvements to its performance. Users who are under the age of 16 are eligible to use VoiceTra with parental consent. "Users" shall include not only the owner of the application, but third persons who use VoiceTra via Users’ devices.
2. All data including input speech, text, their translation texts, terminal information (including unique ID), communication history, history of application operations, and user location and usage time information collected through VoiceTra (hereinafter referred to as “User Data”) will be recorded on the VoiceTra servers managed by NICT. If you wish any of the User Data mentioned above to be deleted, please email us at [ voicetra-support@khn.nict.go.jp ] along with your “Inquiry Number” displayed in the Settings Screen of VoiceTra. We will process your request as much as possible.
3. NICT may distribute statistical information created from the User Data to third parties. The statistical information may be used for commercial purposes. The statistical information will not contain personal information that can identify individuals.
4. NICT uses the User Data for making improvements to the performance of speech and translation technologies. The User Data may be utilized in different forms; and may be subject to automatic filtering, modeling, statistical processing, and manual data classification and transcription by NICT employees and vendors, etc.; thus, the Users are responsible to refrain from inputting any personally identifiable information, private information, commercially confidential information, or any information that should be kept secret from third parties into VoiceTra.
5. NICT may impose restrictions on the number of uses and/or usage time for VoiceTra in order to offer services to as many users as possible for performance evaluation and making improvements to the performance of speech translation technology. Users that are responsible for any usage that are deemed inappropriate by NICT, such as constant and large-scale organizational use, may also be subject to restrictions of use without prior notice.
6. Users are fully responsible for the communication fees incurred from using VoiceTra. NICT strongly recommends Users to use packet flat-rate services provided by telecommunication carriers. NICT shall not be held responsible for any compensation of the telecommunication costs, whatsoever.
7. NICT does not guarantee the accuracy of speech recognition, translation results and speech synthesis of VoiceTra. While NICT makes reasonable efforts to maintain the performance of VoiceTra to offer services without any communication disturbances, it does not imply that the services should be available at any desired time. Therefore, VoiceTra shall be refrained from being used for communications of critical importance or for emergency cases.
8. NICT reserves the right to change or modify the specifications of VoiceTra without prior notice.
9. VoiceTra is made available to the public, particularly to conduct field experiments (e.g. performance evaluation, making improvements, usability survey, business model verification). Therefore, the service period is indefinite and may be terminated without prior notice.
10. It is strictly prohibited to apply any analysis or reverse engineering not only to functions and specifications of VoiceTra and relevant software that are downloaded onto users' terminal devices, but also to the speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis technologies on the server managed by NICT. In cases where such actions constitute a patent infringement or copyright violation that may be harmful, NICT shall issue an injunction or make a claim for the damages incurred.
11. It is strictly prohibited to use VoiceTra for any purpose or in any manner that is illegal or contrary to public order and morality, including, but not limited to, (i) defamation or libel of another person; (ii) conduct that infringes or is likely to infringe human rights or privacy; (iii) communication or disclosure of obscene documents or speech; (iv) hate speech; (v) act of fraudulence; and (vi) spamming.
12. If a prohibited act is performed and or the Terms of Use is violated, the User will no longer be eligible to use VoiceTra.
13. Whether expressly stated herein or not, NICT shall not be held responsible for any damages or losses incurred from using VoiceTra. NICT does not make any guarantee that the use of VoiceTra is legitimate in all countries and regions including Japan.
14. VoiceTra may in certain cases contain a function that allow a third-party software to activate within the application. Even in such cases, NICT does not guarantee the validity, reliability, credibility, and compatibility for a particular purpose, of the third-party software. Users must follow the terms of use of the third-party software and shall be solely liable for its use. NICT shall not bear any responsibilities for the damages caused by using or not being able to use the third-party software.
15. In addition to the above Terms of Use, VoiceTra is subject to the “End User Software License Agreements” specified by Apple Inc. and the “Terms and Conditions” of the App Store
16. VoiceTra may receive notifications about "Announcements" (updates concerning the app and multilingual speech translation technology) which you may check by accessing the NICT website via the app. Please note that in such cases, Users are responsible for the communication fees incurred to access the website.