At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

You can use speech-to-text on Microsoft Word through the "Dictate" feature, which lets you write using your own voice.

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Microsoft showed off a combination of holoportation and translation at Microsoft Inspire. The demo used several Azure services to translate English to Japanese sound as if it was from the original ...

Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group’s speech recognition system now boasts a 5.1 percent error rate, according to a Aug. 20 company blog post by Xuedong ...

Artificial intelligence promises to squeeze into the limelight for 2023, with the vague term spreading itself into various forms of hardware and software shown at the recent CES convention in Las ...

Microsoft and Bill Gates have been in pursuit of speech technologies for a long time, and news.com is reporting that it may end up buying Tellme Networks for a pretty price (the company has received ...

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At Build, Microsoft's new speech technology fooled audience members, who couldn't tell a real speaking human from the software. But how should companies use speech technology? I've been testing PC and ...