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.
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 27, 2024
How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.
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MunTTS: A Text-to-Speech System for Mundari
We present MunTTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system specifically for Mundari, a low-resource Indian language of the Austo-Asiatic family. Our work addresses the gap in linguistic technology for underrepresented languages by collecting and processing data to…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance…
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MSR Talk: Unsupervised Speech Reverberation Control with Diffusion Implicit Bridges
Speaker(s): Eloi MolinerHost: Hannes Gamper Speech reverberation control involves the manipulation of acoustic characteristics in speech recordings, including tasks like speech dereverberation or reverberation time reduction. Diffusion implicit bridges are a recently proposed domain translation…
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End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition
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