Audio and acoustics
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Microsoft Soundscape: Heads-up and hands-free experiences for everyone
Microsoft Soundscape uses 3D spatial audio to help people understand their surroundings. From its original goal of empowering people with sight loss to be more independent, Soundscape has grown to provide richer and more immersive…
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Pushing the frontier of neural text to speech
In the popular field of text to speech, the goal is to transform the written or printed word into speech that is natural and intelligible. Today, the technology is being used in products and services…
Webinar
Pushing the frontier of neural text to speech webinar
In this webinar, Senior Researcher Xu Tan will address the challenges with advancing neural TTS, specifically the high computational cost and slow inference speed in online serving; word skipping and repeating issues, poor voice quality,…
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Microsoft Soundscape – Lighting up the World with Sound
Inspired by fatherhood, Amos corralled a group of people at the Guide Dogs for the Blind and Microsoft and together they set out on a quest to reimagine independence and mobility of blind people with…
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The Journey to Microsoft Soundscape
Cities Unlocked is a unique collaboration between Guide Dogs UK and Microsoft, which explores the potential technology has to enable people living with sight loss to get out and about, independently and confidently, in our…
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Cities Unlocked – Introducing 3D Sound for Greater Mobility and Independence
Microsoft, Guide Dogs UK, and Future Cities Catapult launch the results of the first phase of an exciting project which will revolutionize how people with sight loss, and the sighted, experience the urban landscape, by…
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Sound Capture and Speech Enhancement for Communication and Distant Speech Recognition
In this talk we will discuss the general architecture of speech enhancement pipelines for the needs of hands-free telecommunication and distant speech recognition. The talk will discuss both classical approaches using statistical signal processing and…
