Microsoft's Major Breakthrough In Speech Translation Technology

I'm impressed ... that is pretty amazing that it can convert languages via audio. Wasn't there an universal translator used in Star Trek?
 
The first look at a universal translator, now all we need is the warp drive, a transporter, and food replicators.
 
Other than the initial glitch, the translated speech was pretty impressive. It is promising.
 
Ability to use the "F" word in all known languages simultaneously in 3...2....1....
 
wow thats a neat

(clap clap clap clap)

piece of software

(clap clap clap clap)

they have there...

(clap clap clap clap)
 
For all the hate MS gets from some people, they are one of the few companies that reinvests a TON of their money back into R&D to produce cool shit like this.
 
mart20012 said:
I'd like to know if the spoken part in Chinese is pretty accurate or not.
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If you look at the comments on the YouTube page there is a 'HongKonger' that says "As a HongKonger, I can tell that the translation is quite accurate." His username is not in English, so I'm speculating he is legit, could just be a Microsoft fanboy who knows... Still impressive none the less.
 
mart20012 said:
I'd like to know if the spoken part in Chinese is pretty accurate or not.
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As someone who speaks Chinese, the last section (speech to audio) was very good. I would have said it slightly differently but that could just be personal preference. We should keep in mind that he was speaking in shorter sentences, but overall, it's the right direction, with the right intentions, and I commend them for that.
 
Briguyatx said:
The first look at a universal translator, now all we need is the warp drive, a transporter, and food replicators.
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As for Warp Drive, they have plans for one that's actually feasible. Food replicators are kinda a few stages beyond the 3D printers that exist. And as for transporters... I wouldn't even try it, honestly.
 
mart20012 said:
I'd like to know if the spoken part in Chinese is pretty accurate or not.
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The presentation was taking place in Tianjin, China to a group of chinese students and academics. From the applause it seemed like they where impressed with the results.
 
This is some very cool technology and it will probably get a little quicker over time, but it still needs the complete sentence to do proper translation.

It's also worth keeping in mind his speech was probably very scripted to maximize the accuracy of the translation. Even so, it displays a lot of potential.
 
+1 translation was not even close to literal but conveyed very well
 
jtr8178 said:
I'm impressed ... that is pretty amazing that it can convert languages via audio.
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Random english voice recognition -> run that text through bing translator -> read it out loud = hope for the best?

Doesn't seem impressive to me until I know how good the chinese results are.
 
Awesome, now I can go to China and ask hookers for funky stuff and be understood.
 
Text to speech development was started some 30 years ago. Dragon Systems came out with their first speech recognition software for the PC in 1997. Yet it's still not reliable. 15 years ago I was excited about it, not anymore.

You see in the corner how much it actually recognizes. Some times it's in the 80s and 90 percentages, but sometimes it drops into the 70s.
 
sviola said:
Yes. But it does not compare to a Babel Fish.
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+1 Babelfish is the bomb, just don't like the though of the little worms being put in my ears. I still use the babelfish site once in a while.
 
David_CAN said:
The presentation was taking place in Tianjin, China to a group of chinese students and academics. From the applause it seemed like they where impressed with the results.
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Maybe Microsoft paid them all! And the youtube commenters. And you. I think my mom is a MS paid fanboy too. /looks around nervously. [to poke fun at another post]
 
Briguyatx said:
The first look at a universal translator, now all we need is the warp drive, a transporter, and food replicators.
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Apple has already filed for patents on all the above,
and they will sue anyone who tries to copy the technology Apple has yet to invent.
 
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