On the Azure blog, Xuedong Huang, Technical Fellow at Microsoft’s AI and Research group, explains how Microsoft’s state of the art speech recognition technology is transforming our daily lives.

Xuedong calls out Presentation Translator for PowerPoint – an add-in that displays live, translated subtitles as you speak while giving audience members the opportunity to follow along in their own language, on their own device.

Through the use the Custom Speech Service – a part of Azure’s Cognitive Services Speech API – Presentation Translator gives presenters the ability to customize highly specialized content for classroom lectures.

Read the full article here, and watch this video to see Presentation Translator in action.