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I'm always a bit wary of those demonstrations, obviously the dialogue was rehearsed. It's hard to know how much has been hidden under the carpet for the sake of
by simias 12y ago
I'm always a bit wary of those demonstrations, obviously the dialogue was rehearsed. It's hard to know how much has been hidden under the carpet for the sake of the presentation. For all we know the entirety of the machine translation could have been on playback. I'm wiling to give them some credit and assume it isn't the case though but it's pretty obvious they didn't choose the worst case scenario for a skype conversation.
I hope they'll make a public beta soon, so that we can all try and see how this works in practice in the real world.
- DennisAleynikov 12y agoWhile it isn't microsoft's version, here's something I made at a hacakthon which daisy chains google's services to make something very similar. It's an extension of Google Hangouts and uses and at the moment only works in Chrome, although I am working on improving it and making it less reliant on Google's technology. http://goo.gl/3wC6b7 http://goo.gl/3wC6b7
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI know the speech recognition researcher who worked on this project. It is all very real, and these demo situations don't always represent ideal conditions. I tried an early version of the speech-to-text component (1 or 2 years ago?) myself using an off-the-shelf microphone with a model that was completely generic (none of me speaking in the corpus). It worked surprisingly very well.
- mtrimpe 12y agoIf you know the researcher, do you also know the patent situation here perhaps? If I'm correct this is all using the deep neural nets matching on phonemes and I'm really wondering how I could use this if I wanted to. Is it something they license? Is it something that's perhaps not patented and would end up in CMU sphinx eventually?