Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
Microsoft Speech Corpus (Indian languages)
Microsoft Speech Corpus (Indian languages) release contains conversational and phrasal speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati languages. The data package includes audio and corresponding transcripts. Data provided in this dataset shall…
Robust Language Representation Learning via Multi-task Knowledge Distillation
Language Representation Learning maps symbolic natural language texts (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vectors. Robust and universal language representations are crucial to achieving state-of-the-art results on many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.…
Speech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
Episode 76, May 15, 2019 When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with your computer… and felt like it truly understood you? Well, if Dr. Xuedong Huang, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and…
Content Transfer through Grounded Text Generation
Recent work in neural generation has attracted significant interest in controlling the form of text, such as style, persona, and politeness. However, there has been less work on controlling neural text generation for content. This…
Azure Speech Service Vision Keynote Demo // Microsoft Build 2019
Our latest research progress enables dynamic creation of a virtual microphone array with a set of existing devices equipped with ordinary microphones. It helps our customers more easily transcribe conversations at anytime anywhere. Also, Azure…
Microsoft @ ICASSP 2019
Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) May 12 – 17, 2019, in Brighton, UK.
