{ "id": "AIBD-0219", "title": "Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency and NICT roll out Kyukyu VoiceTra, a 15-language speech-translation app for ambulance crews, to fire headquarters nationwide", "summary": "From April 2017 NICT and the FDMA provided Kyukyu VoiceTra (VoiceTra with medical terms and 46 fixed phrases, 15 languages) to fire headquarters across Japan; Sapporo used it from February 2017.", "date_observed": "2017-04-18", "date_basis": "unassessed", "date_precision": "unassessed", "benefit_status": null, "source_collection": null, "source_entry": null, "account": "NICT announced on 18 April 2017 that Kyukyu VoiceTra would be provided to fire headquarters nationwide from that month. The speech-translation app for ambulance crews was developed with the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) and its Fire Research Center on NICT's VoiceTra engine. It adds medical terms to improve free-text translation accuracy and 46 fixed phrases for emergency scenes in 15 languages. The Sapporo Fire Department had used it since February 2017. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' 2017 white paper covers the R&D, part of the action plan toward 2020. It records completion as Kyukyu VoiceTra in April 2017 and the start of provision to all fire headquarters. Its download figures (205,421 by end-FY2015 and 621,221 by end-FY2016) are for the general VoiceTra app. The trade publication risktaisaku.com (8 May 2017) described the Android release, a planned iOS version and on-screen text that also helps communication with hearing-impaired patients. Ninomiya Town's fire service announced its own adoption on 6 December 2022. No cited source documents a patient-level outcome or a count of adopting headquarters.", "category": "general benefit", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "Built to let ambulance crews communicate with foreign patients quickly at emergency scenes. The nationwide provision is that purpose, without a documented outcome.", "system": "Kyukyu VoiceTra (救急ボイストラ): multilingual speech-translation app for ambulance crews built on NICT's VoiceTra engine, 15 languages, 46 fixed phrases", "model_version": null, "developer": "NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) with the Fire and Disaster Management Agency and its Fire Research Center", "deployer": "Fire headquarters across Japan (Sapporo Fire Department from February 2017; Ninomiya Town fire service from 2022)", "location": null, "domain": "Emergency medical services / language access", "segment": "Ambulance crew communication with foreign patients", "benefit_type": "Increased Inclusion", "taxonomy_note": "The intended good is that non-Japanese speakers can be understood by ambulance crews, a language-access gain rather than acceptance as such, and no outcome is measured.", "registry_ids": {}, "ratings": [ { "group": "personal", "depth": null, "reason": "No cited source documents an outcome for a foreign patient. The sources describe capability and rollout only." }, { "group": "organizational", "depth": null, "reason": "No cited source gives adoption counts or usage outcomes for fire headquarters. Ninomiya Town's page records adoption, not results." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "The app performs speech recognition and translation at the scene. Fixed phrases reduce reliance on free-text translation. Developer (NICT, a public research institute) and the agency that distributes it (FDMA) are both public bodies. The deploying fire headquarters are local governments. No independent evaluation of accuracy or outcomes is among the sources." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "press release", "citation": "NICT (18 Apr 2017). 救急隊用音声翻訳アプリ「救急ボイストラ」が全国の消防本部へ！ (NICT announcement; NICT is the developer).", "title": "救急隊用音声翻訳アプリ「救急ボイストラ」が全国の消防本部へ！", "url": "https://www.nict.go.jp/info/topics/2017/04/170418-1.html", "date": "2017-04-18", "written_by": "makers", "quote": "医療用語を追加して自由文入力の音声翻訳精度を高めるとともに、定型表現(46文)を追加した救急隊用のアプリを新たに開発しました。" }, { "kind": "report", "citation": "総務省 (2017). 平成29年版 情報通信白書, 第5節（3）救急用多言語音声翻訳システムの研究開発 (ministry white paper).", "title": "総務省｜平成29年版 情報通信白書｜救急用多言語音声翻訳システムの研究開発", "url": "https://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/whitepaper/ja/h29/html/nc155230.html", "date": null, "written_by": "makers", "quote": "2017年4月には、上記の機能等が備わった「救急ボイストラ」として完成させ、救急隊が活用できるよう全国の消防本部へ提供を開始するとともに、活用を促進した。" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "リスク対策.com (8 May 2017). 消防庁、救急隊用15言語対応アプリ.", "title": "消防庁、救急隊用15言語対応アプリ", "url": "https://www.risktaisaku.com/articles/-/2758", "date": "2017-05-08", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "言語を選択し、現場でよく使われる46の定型文を選択すると、選択した言語で画面表示がなされ音声が流れる。" }, { "kind": "press release", "citation": "二宮町 (6 Dec 2022). 救急ボイストラを導入しました。 (deploying municipality's page).", "title": "救急ボイストラを導入しました。", "url": "https://www.town.ninomiya.kanagawa.jp/0000001513.html", "date": "2022-12-06", "written_by": "deployer", "quote": "外国語による音声と画面の文字による円滑なコミュニケーションを図ることが可能となります。" } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "A general-purpose national speech-translation engine (VoiceTra) adapted with domain vocabulary", "Fixed phrases for the commonest emergency-scene exchanges, with touch-screen answers translated back", "Free distribution by the national fire agency to local fire headquarters" ], "must_hold": [ "Smartphones available to ambulance crews", "Coverage of the patient's language among the 15 supported", "Crew training (several municipal pages describe drills)" ], "echoes": [ { "date": "2022-12-06", "setting": "Ninomiya Town, Kanagawa: fire service announces it has started operating Kyukyu VoiceTra", "model_version": null, "outcome": "unknown", "source": "二宮町, https://www.town.ninomiya.kanagawa.jp/0000001513.html" } ] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "Kyukyu VoiceTra translates for ambulance crews across Japan", "metric": null, "comparator": { "against": "the conventional way of communicating with foreign patients before the app (従来)", "before": null, "after": "従来に比べ、外国人傷病者に対してスピーディーかつ円滑にコミュニケーションが図れるようになり", "basis": "measured", "quote": "実フィールドで検証した結果、従来に比べ、外国人傷病者に対してスピーディーかつ円滑にコミュニケーションが図れるようになり、実用レベルに達していることが確認できましたので、このたび「救急ボイストラ」という名称で、全国の消防本部への提供を開始することとしました。", "url": "https://www.nict.go.jp/info/topics/2017/04/170418-1.html" }, "later": { "status": "scaled", "date": "2022-12-06", "note": "Ninomiya Town's fire station announced in December 2022 that it had started operating Kyukyu VoiceTra, a further adoption more than five years after the nationwide release.", "quote": "二宮町消防署では救急ボイストラの運用を開始しました。", "url": "https://www.town.ninomiya.kanagawa.jp/0000001513.html" }, "value": null, "developer_country": "Japan", "deployer_country": "Japan", "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Record drafted from the cited sources.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Added what the benefit is measured against, what happened since from the cited sources.", "source": "https://www.nict.go.jp/info/topics/2017/04/170418-1.html; https://www.town.ninomiya.kanagawa.jp/0000001513.html", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Benefit type set to Increased Inclusion under Trustible's full taxonomy of 23 types; it was Improved Accessibility among the six first used.", "source": "https://trustible.ai/post/a-framework-for-measuring-the-benefits-of-ai/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer and the deployer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://www.nict.go.jp/en/about/location.html; https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AD%E5%B9%8C%E5%B8%82%E6%B6%88%E9%98%B2%E5%B1%80", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, purpose, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Notes about which sources could be read were reworded for readers; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: one independent news report, the makers' report, the makers' press release and the deployer's press release. 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