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Research Focus: Week of November 28, 2022
This special edition of Research Focus highlights some of the 100+ papers from Microsoft Research that were accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2022 – the thirty-sixth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Dongkuan Xu, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Xiaodong Liu, Debadeepta Dey,…
Bringing low-resource languages and spoken dialects into play with Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation
| Hany Hassan Awadalla
Machine translation has become a crucial component in the advancing of global communication. Millions of people are using online translation systems and mobile applications to communicate across language barriers. Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years with the…
Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
Released in preview this week at Build 2018, the new Microsoft Translator custom feature lets users customize neural machine translation systems. These customizations can be applied to both text and speech translation workflows. Microsoft Translator released neural machine translation (NMT)…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Bringing AI translation to edge devices with Microsoft Translator
An AI-dedicated processor available on the Huawei Mate 10, even in the absence of internet access, enables the system to produce translations whose quality is on par with the online system.
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft and Huawei deliver Full Neural On-device Translations
Microsoft is delivering the world’s first fully neural on device translations in the Microsoft Translator app for Android, customized for the Huawei Mate 10 series.
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft Translator erodes language barrier for in-person conversations
Microsoft Translator is now supporting in-person machine translation technology, developed by the machine translation group at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, also can ease communications for travelers in a foreign country who need to speak with hotel receptionists, taxi drivers…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft Translator launching Neural Network based translations for all its speech languages
Microsoft Translator is now powering all speech translation through state-of-the-art neural networks. All speech translation apps that use this service, such as Skype Translator and the Microsoft Translator app for mobile devices, are now using neural network technology.
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Introducing Russian Speech Translation for Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the worldâs first Speech Translation API
A new Microsoft Translator API adds real-time speech-to-speech (and speech to text) translation capabilities to the existing text translation API. Powered by Microsoft’s state-of-the-art AI technologies, this capability has been available to millions of users of Skype for over a…