Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
Vision and Language Intelligence
We are focusing on understanding, reasoning, and generation across language and vision, and creation of intelligent services, including vision-to-text captioning, text-to-vision generation, and question answering/dialog about images and videos.
Tech Showcase: Microsoft Translator Live
Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants participating at the same time using PowerPoint, iOS, Android, Windows and web endpoints. Businesses, retail stores,…
Tech Showcase: Customizing Speech Recognition for Higher Accuracy Transcriptions
Two of the most important components of speech recognition systems are the acoustic model and the language model. Those models behind Microsoft’s speech recognition engine have been optimized for certain usage scenarios, such as interacting…
Conversational Systems in the Era of Deep Learning and Big Data
Recent research in recurrent neural models, combined with the availability of massive amounts of dialog data, have together spurred the development of a new generation of conversational systems. Where past approaches focused on task-oriented dialog…
