Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as an early impressive real-time speech translation demo, often in discussions of voice-preserving translation and later AI demos.
What it is
Microsoft Research's Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition and translation system, built on deep neural networks, that turns his spoken English into Chinese speech in 2012.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2013 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends istorical · 2014-03 · on “Say Hello to Cortana, Microsoft’s Siri Equivalent”
They've been doing some really cool stuff for a long time. Check out this real-time translation of spoken English into written and spoken Chinese (in the same voice of the speaker): [this video]
Cites taliesinb · 2013-08 · on “If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple”
Wasn't MSRA behind that amazing live English-to-Chinese translator [0]? It's interesting to contrast Google's and Microsoft's approach with ours at Wolfram Research (at 0.3% their size, of course [1]). We've come to see that it is very fruitful to live in a murky space somewhere between "commercial product" and "research project". I'm thinking specifically about Wolfram|Alpha. It's an enormous and daunting project. We've tackled a lot of very hard problems, and obviously have a long way still to go. It has the weird property of being a thing that ships every week, but not one that the parent company depends on financially. And so we kind of do our own thing, encoding domain knowledge, adding
Cites rlu · 2014-05 · on “Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations”
Reminds me of this from a few years ago: [this video] I feel like they should merge the two. The subtitles are a nice touch, but if it could capture the voice of the speaker it would be truly magical.
Cites Mystery-Machine · 2024-05 · on “GPT-4o”
Have you seen this video from Microsoft, uploaded to YT in 2012, the actual video could be even older: [this video]