Audio and acoustics
Researching how sound is captured, processed, and understood, from speech recognition to spatial audio.
Microsoft Soundscape: Heads-up and hands-free experiences for everyone
Microsoft Soundscape uses 3D spatial audio to help people understand their surroundings. From its original goal of empowering people with sight loss to be more independent, Soundscape has grown to provide richer and more immersive…
Pushing the frontier of neural text to speech
In the popular field of text to speech, the goal is to transform the written or printed word into speech that is natural and intelligible. Today, the technology is being used in products and services…
Pushing the frontier of neural text to speech webinar
In this webinar, Senior Researcher Xu Tan will address the challenges with advancing neural TTS, specifically the high computational cost and slow inference speed in online serving; word skipping and repeating issues, poor voice quality,…
