Sunday 25 November 2012

U of T research contributes to instant verbal translation


When Microsoft’s chief research officer took to the stage in Tianjin, China, last month, his language skills made an auditorium of hundreds of native Mandarin speakers applaud wildly.

But he only spoke English at the conference. As he explained new developments in instantaneous translation and interpretation, Rick Rashid’s English spoken words were simultaneously translated robotically to Mandarin.

The stunned crowd applauded the new computer system that can recognize human speech patterns, thanks to a University of Toronto research team.


See my report in the Toronto Observer.

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