Microsoft language tutoring software - language training

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Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and software use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software (Microsoft) more personal, or to make tools for travelers. In a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus, Microsoft research scientist (language tutoring software Microsoft) Mr.FrankSoong showed how Microsoft software could read out text in Spanish using the voice of his boss, Rick Rashid, who leads Microsoft's research language tutoring software efforts. In a second demonstration, Mr.FrankSoong used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin. In English, a synthetic version of Mundie's voice welcomed the audience to an open day held by Microsoft Research language tutoring software, concluding, "With the help of this system, now I can speak Mandarin." The phrase was repeated in Mandarin Chinese, in what was still recognizably Mundie's voice. "We will be able to do quite a few scenario applications," Added Mr.FrankSoong, who created the system with colleagues at Microsoft Research Asia, the company's second largest research lab, in Beijing, China. "For a monolingual speaker traveling in a foreign country, we'll do speech recognition followed by translation, followed by the final text to speech output [in] a different language, but still in his own voice," added Mr.FrankSoong.

Microsoft language tutorial software training, The new technique could computing also be used to help students learn a Microsoft language tutoring software, said Mr.FrankSoong. Microsoft language tutoring software, system needs around an hour of training to develop a model able to read out any text in a person's own voice. That model is converted into one able to read out text in another language by comparing it with a stock text-to-speech model for the target language. Individual sounds used by the first model to build up words using a person's voice in his or her own language are carefully tweaked to give the new text-to-speech model a full ability to sound out phrases in the second language. Mr.FrankSoong says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Italian and Spanish. Preserving a person's voice when synthesizing speech for them in another language would likely be reassuring to a user, and could make interactions reliant on translation software more meaningful, says Mr.ShrikanthNarayanan, a professor at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, leads a research group working on systems to translate speech in situations such as doctor patient consultations. Microsoft language tutoring software research group is investigating how features such as emphasis, intonation, and the way people use pauses or hesitation affects the effectiveness and perceived quality of a word-for-word translation. Mr.FrankSoong says that this approach can convert between any pair of 26 languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Italian, and Spanish.