In the news | AI - Cognitive Services Blog
New technical research is advancing Azure’s Neural Text-to-Speech service
Neural Text-to-Speech (Neural TTS), a powerful speech synthesis capability of Azure Cognitive Services, enables users to convert text to lifelike speech. It is used in various scenarios including voice assistant, content read-aloud capabilities, accessibility tools, and more. Azure Neural TTS…
编者按：AI 合成语音如今已经屡见不鲜，然而在用户听来却不能让人产生与真人对话和阅读般的沉浸感。不过，微软亚洲研究院和微软 Azure 语音团队近日联合推出的全新端到端语音合成模型 NaturalSpeech，在 CMOS 测试中首次达到了真人说话水准。这将近一步提升微软 Azure 中合成语音的水平，让所有合成声音都惟妙惟肖。 文本到语音合成（Text to Speech，TTS）是一项根据文本...
Amsterdam, Breakfast, Museums, and Soundscape - the perfect weekend! Hi, I’m Frazier from the Soundscape Team. One of my friends is going on a city break to Amsterdam next month and asked me for some tips of things to do…
In the news | Data.org
Project Resolve and the Healthy Community Hub Deploy Data Science that Works for Communities
The Healthy Community Hub and Project Resolve, a multi-stakeholder collaboration that brings Microsoft Research’s social science, engineering, and computer science expertise to the table with the North Carolina CBO leaders. Microsoft’s team is building out the tool while also leveraging the…
Authors: Matthew Burruss and Shafiul "Jacky" Islam In an ideal world, machine learning would be a straight path from defining the business use-cases to operationalizing the model, but in reality, the model lifecycle is a continuous loop, as objectives are…
In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft’s plan to preserve music for 10,000 years with glass
Nothing is forever. By Microsoft’s estimation, hard drives protect data for five years before they can go bad. Tape lasts about a decade, while CDs and DVDs can make it as long as 15 years before their contents are at…
Awards | Green Good Design
Project Eclipse Chicago deployment recognized with a Green Good Design Award 2022
Project Eclipse recognized with a 2022 Green Good Design Award for their Eclipse Air Sensor Transit Shelters Chicago Deployment. In July 2021, the Project Eclipse team at Microsoft Urban Innovation Research began a partnership with JCDecaux Chicago, LLC and team…
In the news | Global Music Vault
Elire Group collaborates with Microsoft on a trial for long-term archival storage
Elire Group, with Global Music Vault, is dedicated to sourcing, safeguarding, and celebrating the world’s most valuable music, where the mission is to pass on the world’s music to the next generations forever. Microsoft is using recent discoveries in ultrafast…
DoWhy evolves to independent PyWhy model to help causal inference grow
| Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
Identifying causal effects is an integral part of scientific inquiry. It helps us understand everything from educational outcomes to the effects of social policies to risk factors for diseases. Questions of cause-and-effect are also critical for the design and data-driven…