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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word

Microsoft Research · 1M views · 2012-11-08 · 9:05

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Overview

Microsoft Research's Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition and translation system, built on deep neural networks, that turns his spoken English into Chinese speech in 2012.

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HN cites it as an early impressive real-time speech translation demo, often in discussions of voice-preserving translation and later AI demos.

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Computer vision, speech & NLPMachine learning & deep learning
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istorical · 2014-03 · Recommendation

They've been doing some really cool stuff for a long time. Check out this real-time translation of spoken English into written and spoken Chinese (in the same voice of the speaker): [VIDEO]

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Mystery-Machine · 2024-05 · Reference

Have you seen this video from Microsoft, uploaded to YT in 2012, the actual video could be even older: [VIDEO]

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rlu · 2014-05 · Reference

Reminds me of this from a few years ago: [VIDEO] I feel like they should merge the two. The subtitles are a nice touch, but if it could capture the voice of the speaker it would be truly magical.

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