Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word

Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language. The breakthrough is patterned after deep neural networks and significantly reduces errors in spoken as well as written translation.

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[MrTechFox]

It's not 1980 anymore, it's now 2012, you know that right? This whole 'technology and science are for nerds who cant get girls' is an ignorant stereotype from a bygone age. Smart people enjoy the benefits of their intelligence and still get laid. Sorry to burst your bubble, but being smart is cool.

[mandydax]

Universal translators. It's a beautiful future.

...but 480p, Microsoft? O.o C'mon now.

[super6plx]

oh man I was REALLY hoping it would accidently think he said "Fuck you" at the end and translate it and say it out loud in chinese, that would be so gloriously funny

[claudia Brauer]

Neo-Luddites or Technocrats? In the world of translators and interpreters, the wrong decision may lead to an extinct profession in a couple of decades.

[jnperez01]

Is this tech out commercially?

Human translators are gonna go out of business.

I wish they could improve the lag, and make the translation more real time.

[Nasir Amin]

Gotta love Microsoft, I wish I could work for MS.

[Pete Brown]

Friggin brilliant. Makes me proud to work at Microsoft.

[sibtain ali]

so do you

[vb4You]

Microsoft lies somewhere between madness and genius.

They did some wonderful work with Windows 8. And then they somehow managed to fuck up lots of basic stuff.

I have no fucking clue why the smartphone Skype apps on competing OS are better than the Windows Phone ones or why they didn't ship Windows RT with Outlook (Well, at least they seem to be working on that one).

Hell, they could have allowed .exe files for RT. The open-source community would just need minor recompilling for programs to run.

[apa1102]

The Chinese translation is terrible...