By Xu Tan , Senior Researcher Neural network based text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in recent years. Previous neural TTS models (e.g., Tacotron 2) first generate mel-spectrograms autoregressively from text and then synthesize speech from the generated mel-spectrograms using a…
Helping users build – and maintain – a wall between personal and business communications is a key job that technology can do to help users once they create a business identity. We plan to continue delving into the needs of…
Alexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge
| Sanil Rajput , John Winn, Naomi Moneypenny, Yordan Zaykov, and CJ Tan
Project Alexandria is a research project within Microsoft Research Cambridge dedicated to discovering entities, or topics of information, and their associated properties from unstructured documents. This research lab has studied knowledge mining research for over a decade, using the probabilistic…
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First village-level mapping of childhood undernutrition in India reveals local disparities
The risk of childhood undernutrition varies widely among villages in India, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with researchers at Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard's Center for Population and Development…
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Improving the Rare Disease diagnosis journey with Azure Health Bot
During the pandemic, we have seen dramatic shifts in technology usage: rapid acceleration of at-home shopping, a transition from in-person to online learning, and much more. In healthcare, telehealth visits have jumped more than 150 percent. This increase of visits…
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Podcast: Research @Microsoft Research India: interdisciplinary and impactful. With Dr. Sriram Rajamani
Episode 008 | April 20, 2021 Podcast: Research @Microsoft Research India: interdisciplinary and impactful. With Dr. Sriram Rajamani Microsoft Research India is constantly exploring how research can enable new technologies that positively impact the lives of people while…
ZeRO-Infinity and DeepSpeed: Unlocking unprecedented model scale for deep learning training
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Andrey Proskurin
Since the DeepSpeed optimization library was introduced last year, it has rolled out numerous novel optimizations for training large AI models—improving scale, speed, cost, and usability. As large models have quickly evolved over the last year, so too has DeepSpeed.…