In the news | The Economic Times
Eros Now ties up with Microsoft to develop OTT technology
MUMBAI: Eros Now, the video on demand platform by Eros International Plc. has tied up with software giant Microsoft to develop an enhanced online video platform. Eros Now is collaborating with Microsoft to use its cloud platform Azure to build…
In the news | Scientifc American
A Planetary Computer to Avert Environmental Disaster
Investment in technology solutions aimed at environmental outcomes is sorely needed to accelerate the pace, scale and effectiveness of our response to climate change.
铸星闪耀 | 铸星论坛2019带领青年学者拓展科研视野
9 月 5 日，来自全国及日本 10 所知名高校与研究所的 12 位青年学者齐聚微软亚洲研究院，参加 2019 年铸星论坛。作为微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”候选人，各位学者分享了自己的研究成果与未来展望，与其他候选人、 MSRA 资深研究员深入交流，享受思维碰撞与灵感启迪。 此次论坛由微软亚洲研究院学术合作总监马歆、首席研究员谢幸、首席研究员秦涛、高级研究员罗翀、学术合作主管经理石贝贝担任论坛主席。...
HCI, IR and the search for better search with Dr. Susan Dumais
Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious career in search technologies has been worth it. Situated firmly in…
Helping first responders achieve more with autonomous systems and AirSim
| Ashish Kapoor
With inputs from: Elizabeth Bondi (Harvard University), Bob DeBortoli (Oregon State University), Balinder Malhi (Microsoft) and Jim Piavis (Microsoft) Autonomous systems have the potential to improve safety for people in dangerous jobs, particularly first responders. However, deploying these systems is…
Layer Trajectory BLSTM: New evolution enhances speech recognition technology
Speech is a signal that can enable natural interaction between human and machine. In order to facilitate this exchange, machines have to be able to recognize what a human has spoken, both the words and the context in which those…
Bring your phones to the conference table: creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
| Takuya Yoshioka, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Andreas Stolcke, and William Hinthorn
Recent advances in machine learning and signal processing, as well as the availability of massive computing power, have resulted in dramatic and steady improvement in speech recognition accuracy. Voice interfaces to digital devices have become more and more common. Lectures…