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.
Podcast
Going deep on deep learning with Dr. Jianfeng Gao
Dr. Jianfeng Gao is a veteran computer scientist, an IEEE Fellow and the current head of the Deep Learning Group at Microsoft Research. He and his team are exploring novel approaches to advancing the state-of-the-art…
Event
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020
The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…
Publication
The Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge
Microsoft Research Blog
Making machines recognize and transcribe conversations in meetings using audio and video
The ability to perceive communication signals and make sense of them played an essential role in the evolution of human intelligence. Computing technology is following the same trajectory. Now, computer vision and automatic speech recognition…
