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 ...

The feature can automatically translate an existing message into English. Android users can switch on automatic translation ...

What happens in the video above is a potential breakthrough in speech recognition technology that could help to break down language barriers between countries and cultures. Microsoft Chief Research ...

Microsoft has today posted a video, and complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates ...

The company notes that translations occur on the user's device where WhatsApp cannot see them, which means messages remain ...

Despite the importance of intonation in spoken languages, deeper linguistic information encoded in prosody is rarely taken into account in speech-to-speech machine translation systems. This paper ...