Local university students invent translation machine to help elderly communicate with maids

Team Terabytes, which comprises of SMU School of Information Systems students Jeremy Zhou, Henry Tan and Lee Xiang Rui, has emerged winner of the sixth “code::XtremeApps:” competition under the open category with their translation application Speechify. This year's challenge was to develop innovative applications that would impact the Silver Generation positively. Lee Xiang Rui commented that they were inspired to create the application after noticing the communication barrier between the elderly and their domestic helpers. The team also expressed their gratitude for the guidance of Senior Lecturer of Information Systems Lee Yeow Leong.