Microsoft Breakthrough Speaks Mandarin With Your Voice [VIDEO]

Speech recognition, as it relates to software, isnt what one might call a perfect science. There are still bugs and glitches, even in the best transcription software out there. Its difficult to accurately determine what someone is actually saying at any given time, let alone having a computer try to do all that for you. Thats why Microsoft's recent demonstration is so impressive.

Not only did it manage to show off a decent automatic transcription of the speech given, but it then translated that into spoken Mandarin using the speaker's own voice.

Assuming that this only continues to improve, the implications for this kind of machine translation everywhere are enormous. Usi…
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