The robot's capabilities include voice and speech recognition, natural language processing, speech synthesis and telecommunications, as well as facial recognition and video recording.
The main scholarly research of the institute is on machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, information retrieval, parsing and information extraction.
Established in 1995, the companys initial focus was software development and microelectronics, specializing in speech synthesis and speech recognition technology.
However, maximum naturalness is not always the goal of a speech synthesis system, and formant synthesis systems have advantages over concatenative systems.