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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word

Microsoft Research · demo · Watch on YouTube

Computer vision, speech & NLPMachine learning & deep learning

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Check out this real-time translation of spoken English into written and spoken Chinese (in the same voice of the speaker)”

    Real-time spoken English translated to Chinese in the speaker's own voice.

    istorical, 2014-03 · Recommendation · in “Say Hello to Cortana, Microsoft’s Siri Equivalent”

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Topics: speech recognition, machine translation, deep neural networks, microsoft research, demo

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