Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
Project
E2 TTS
Embarrassingly Easy Fully Non-Autoregressive Zero-Shot TTS E2 TTS (Embarrassingly Easy TTS) is a fully non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of generating the voice of any speaker. Despite its extremely simple model architecture and training…
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Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content
This seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in May 2024. User-generated content (UGC), e.g. social media posts written in “Internet language”, presents a lot of…
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Insights into the Challenges and Opportunities of Large Multi-Modal Models for Blind and Low Vision Users: CLIP
Daniela Massiceti delves into the transformative potential of multimodal models such as CLIP for assistive technologies. Specifically focusing on the blind/low-vision community, the talk explores the current distance from realizing this potential and the advancements…
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Panel: Generative AI for Global Impact: Challenges and Opportunities
Microsoft researchers discuss the challenges and opportunities of making AI more inclusive and impactful for everyone—from data that represents a broader range of communities and cultures to novel use cases for AI that are globally…
Dataset Source Code
DOSA
A dataset of social artifacts from different Indian geographical subcultures. This repo hosts the code to run experiments on the DOSA dataset.
Publication