DOT TRANSLATE. THE FIRST BRAILLE TRANSLATOR BASED ON AI.
Bronze eurobest Award
Demo Film
Presentation Image
Title
DOT TRANSLATE. THE FIRST BRAILLE TRANSLATOR BASED ON AI.
Brand
DOT INCORPORATION
Product/Service
DOT TRANSLATE
Category
D01. Curation of Data
Entrant
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY Munich, GERMANY
Idea Creation
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY Munich, GERMANY
Production
PAULUS.CO Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Additional Company
CLOUDANDCO Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Additional Company 2
HYPERINTERACTIVE Hamburg, GERMANY
Additional Company 3
MOBY DIGG Munich, GERMANY
Credits
Name
Company
Position
Alexander Schill
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY
Global Chief Creative Officer
Eric Ju Yoon Kim
Dot Incorporation
CEO
Jae Seong Joo
Dot Incorporation
CDO
Ki Sung
Dot Incorporation
CTO
Ahrum Choi
Dot Incorporation
Director of Social Impact
Jimin Ryu
Dot Incorporation
Global Partnership Manager
Yeong Kyu Yoo
cloudandco / Dot Incorporation
Creative Director / CEO
Ki Hwan Joo
Dot Incorporation
Designer
Franz Roeppischer
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY
Creative Director
Lorenz Langgartner
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY
Creative Director
Saurabh Kakade
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY
Creative Producer
Eduardo Alvarez
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY
Art Director
Carolina Soto
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY
Junior Copywriter
Dieter Pries
HYPERINTERACTIVE
Technical Director
Bozhidar Yovchev
HYPERINTERACTIVE
AI Director
Anton Petrov
HYPERINTERACTIVE
AI Engineer
Vasil Vasilev
HYPERINTERACTIVE
Data Analyst
Daniel Kuhnlein
Standardabweichung
Creative Code
Maximilian Heitsch
Moby Digg
Creative Direction
Niklas May
Moby Digg
Concept
Marco Kawan
Moby Digg
UI Design
Sebastian Haiss
Moby Digg
Animation
Kyungsin Kim
Paulus Co. Ltd
Producer
Dahoon Chung
Paulus Co. Ltd
Director
Yongsang Cho
Paulus Co. Ltd
DOP
Handong Ryu
Paulus Co. Ltd
Cinematographer
Young Woo Choi
cloudandco
Designer
Nara Ok
cloudandco
Graphic Designer
Julie Kang
Serviceplan Korea
CEO
Jihyun Seo
Serviceplan Korea
Art Director
Yujin Ko
Serviceplan Korea
Senior Account Manager
Yerim Kim
Serviceplan Korea
Account Executive
Yoon Seo
Serviceplan Korea
Copywriter
Describe the creative idea
Dot Translate is the first braille translator based on AI. It can translate any digital text to braille on its own, at near-human accuracy. Because it’s being trained with millions of most accurate human translation samples / data to understand context.
Dot Translate is accessible through an intuitive web interface, Dot devices and other digital braille devices. It can translate a wide range of formats and sources: type, e-pub, pdf, txt, doc, rtf, html and even voice. Through the bookmark feature, users can directly translate and format whole websites. Dot Translate can be integrated by third party services and products. But most importantly: While existing braille translation software costs up to $700, Dot Translate is free to use. This is important, because due to the nature of Machine Learning and a feedback tool, usage increases the accuracy.
Describe the execution
Dot Translate is the first braille translator based on AI. It can translate any digital text to braille on its own, at near-human accuracy. Because it’s being trained with millions of most accurate human translations.
Braille translation is highly complex: Grade 2 Braille – the standard for longer text – relies heavily on contractions. This leads to ambiguity, where meaning depends on context and up to five consecutive rules for a single letter. So far, even the best existing software requires additional input by human experts. Existing braille translation software works by applying a small set of pre-defined rules, which doesn’t cover many cases.
Dot Translate enhances rule-based translation with AI: Grade 2 Braille translation comes down to understanding the context of the word and finding the shortest accurate contraction.
For accuracy, Dot Translate relies on a character-based word model based on a sequence to sequence neural network, trained with millions of character sequences from most accurate human translations. Then a beam search algorithm looks at the most promising candidates from the first step and determines the shortest accurate translation. Together, these two methods result in the shortest, most accurate translation in the specific context.