Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
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Vision and Language Intelligence
We are focusing on understanding, reasoning, and generation across language and vision, and creation of intelligent services, including vision-to-text captioning, text-to-vision generation, and question answering/dialog about images and videos.
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Tech Showcase: Microsoft Translator Live
Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants participating at the same time using PowerPoint, iOS, Android, Windows and web endpoints. Businesses, retail stores,…
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Tech Showcase: Customizing Speech Recognition for Higher Accuracy Transcriptions
Two of the most important components of speech recognition systems are the acoustic model and the language model. Those models behind Microsoft’s speech recognition engine have been optimized for certain usage scenarios, such as interacting…
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Conversational Systems in the Era of Deep Learning and Big Data
Recent research in recurrent neural models, combined with the availability of massive amounts of dialog data, have together spurred the development of a new generation of conversational systems. Where past approaches focused on task-oriented dialog…
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Tech Showcase: Interactive Chinese Learning App
When traveling to China it’s best to know at least a bit of the language. The mobile app called Learn Chinese can help travelers enjoy a better journey. Learn Chinese teaches in an interactive way,…
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Tech Showcase: Cortana, Your Personal Assistant
From ferry schedules to dinner reservations, Cortana is the digital assistant designed to help people get things done. Cortana will eventually be everywhere people need assistance—on the phone, PC, Xbox One, and other places like…
Microsoft Research Blog
Faculty Summit 2017 focuses on technical breakthroughs and societal influences
By Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Managing Director, Microsoft We’re at an inflection point for AI technologies. Rising capabilities and possibilities have been catalyzed by jumps in the availability of data and computational power. Increasing…
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AI Creation
Content is key for online industry. With the growing adoption of AI among various businesses, we are exploring ways that AI can help organize and create content in different forms, including text, audio, image, video etc.…