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.
Publication
Self-training with Weak Supervision
Video
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…
Microsoft Research Blog
Anticipate, absorb, and adapt—introducing the societal resilience research agenda
The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This…
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,…
Video
Failures of imagination: Discovering and measuring harms in language technologies
Auditing natural language processing (NLP) systems for computational harms remains an elusive goal. Doing so, however, is critical as there is a proliferation of language technologies (and applications) that are enabled by increasingly powerful natural…
Webinar
Failures of imagination: Discovering and measuring harms in language technologies webinar
Join Microsoft researchers Su Lin Blodgett and Alexandra Olteanu, from the FATE Group at Microsoft Research Montréal, to examine pitfalls in some state-of-the-art approaches to measuring computational harms in language technologies. For such measurements of…
