nsane.forums Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Microsoft Research is working on new software that will be able to translate a person's spoken words into other languages but still keeping the sound of the original speaker. It's been one of science fiction's biggest dreams: a true universal translator. While we may be a long way from Star Trek's technology, a team at Microsoft Research is working on software that will enable a person's voice to be translated into other languages while still having the voice sound like the person who is speaking it. MIT's Technology Review web site reports that this week the team, based at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, showed off their efforts at Microsoft's world headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The team used the voice of Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, to greet an audience in Mundie's native English. The software was then used to have Mundie's words spoken in Mandarin Chinese, which still sounded as if Mundie had said the words. Microsoft Research Asia's project needs about an hour at first to make a software model with the ability to read out any text in a person's own voice. Then the model is converted into another one that's able to read out text in one of 26 supported languages. This is done by comparing it with a regular text-to-speech model for the language that has been selected. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouchysmurf Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I do not see the big accomplishment here. All this is is a translate program that synthesizes a close vocal output match. Not a "huge" jump forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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