Xuedong huang, the engineer in charge of microsoft s speech, natural language, and machine translation efforts, called it a major milestone in. The machinelearning software is now available to anyone under an mit license. Speech and language processing for multimodal humancomputer interaction. Microsoft releases cntk, its open source deep learning. In a few short years, artificial intelligence ai has been thrust into the limelight elevating itself from a farfetched, sciencefiction topic to one that is currently dominating my conversations with customers, partners and industry leaders across asia. Microsoft chief scientist xuedong huang on the future of. Xuedong huang, microsoft s chief speech scientist, said he and his team were anxious to make faster. Speech and dialog research group microsoft research. Xuedong huang, a microsoft technical fellow and head of microsofts speech and language group, is successful, you will. According to microsoft technical fellow xuedong huang, using distant microphones to achieve human levels of recognition in noisy environments, achieving higher levels of recognition for accented. Xuedong huang, chief speech scientist, technical fellow in cloud and ai, and lead of speech and language group at microsoft. Xuedong huang, previously the general manager of the microsoft research incubation group, is currently the partner architect at.
Microsoft open sources its artificial brain to one. He is responsible for microsofts azure ai engineering. The microsoft technology center joins others across the world as a place where corporate customers can see demonstrations of microsoft s business products and try them out. Wired magazine named him one of 25 geniuses in next list 2016. Microsoft claims human parity in understanding speech. New milestone in teaching machines to understand human. A guide to theory, algorithm and system development huang, xuedong, acero, alex, hon, hsiaowuen on. Microsoft hits a speech recognition milestone the motley. Microsoft opens special showroom for business clients.
Toward human parity in conversational speech recognition. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the. Microsoft s software has now equaled those results, according to. From product updates to hot topics, hear from the azure experts. Hitting human parity in a machine translation task is a dream that all of us have had, xuedong huang. Customer engagement software provider freshdesk has acquired social chat platform chatimity to strengthen its ai chatbot capabilities. Microsoft sets new speech recognition record nvidia. Episode 76, may 15, 2019 when was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with your computer and felt like it truly understood you. Microsoft claims to reach human parity in conversational. Microsoft opens up its deeplearning toolkit on github. Microsoft chief scientist xuedong huang talks about the power and potential of speech recognition and of artificial intelligence.
Zheng t and wu w pitch mean based frequency warping proceedings of the 5th international conference. The new translation technology is one of several advances that have recently moved out of microsoft s research labs and into the hands of consumers. Trusted learn about azure security, compliance and privacy. Xuedong huang of microsoft, washington read 122 publications contact xuedong huang. October 20, 1962 is the key person behind microsoft s speech recognition technologies as well as its voip response point product line. This is an example of democratizing ai using microsoft cognitive toolkit, said xuedong huang, microsoft distinguished engineer. The quest to teach machines to understand human conversations has taken another big step forward with researchers achieving a new level of speech recognition for technology. He is a microsoft technical fellow and companys chief speech scientist. When they first developed the toolkit, basoglu said they figured many developers couldnt, or wouldnt, want to write a. Wired magazine named him one of 25 geniuses in next list.
One unique feature we offer is to help the powerpoint presenter. Xuedong huang is a microsoft technical fellow and chief technology officer for the newly unified azure ai cognitive services engineering and research team. Come check out how new ai technology from microsoft empower multilingual. Azure marketplace find, try and buy azure building blocks and finished software solutions. Asia is the next frontier for ai development asia news. As the head of microsoft s spoken language initiatives, he played an instrumental role in developing many highprofile speech products including cortana, microsoft translator, microsoft cognitive services and cognitive toolkit cntk, and other ai technologies used in microsoft. Xuedong huang, a microsoft technical fellow and head of microsoft s speech and language group, is successful, you will.
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Microsoft announces breakthrough in chinesetoenglish. So today, if a university of edinburgh professor downloads the presentation translator. Speech devices sdk and dev kits news august 2018 azure. Xuedong huang is a microsoft technical fellow in microsoft cloud and ai. Resources find downloads, white papers, templates and events. These technologies are making this world a better place, said xuedong huang, a technical fellow in microsoft cloud and ai who leads the speech and language group. Additionally, our approach to combine predictions from multiple acoustic models now does so at both the framesenone and word levels, said xuedong huang, a technical fellow at microsoft. With microsoft presentation translator, anyone can download the presentation. Xuedong huang is a microsoft technical fellow in ai and research and is the companys chief speech scientist.
And i also worked as an architect for satya nadella when he was running bing. He is currently the divisional architect in microsoft s online services including bing, msn and adcenter. A slotindependent neural model for dialogue state tracking. Microsoft hits another milestone in speechrecognition software accuracy by dyllan furness september 19, 2016 if youre fed up with chatbots mishearing you, microsoft is making machine ears a. Xuedong huang azure blog and updates microsoft azure. Menu icon a vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Xuedong huang is a microsoft technical fellow and chief technology officer of ai cognitive services. Microsofts speech recognition is now as good as a human. Takuya yoshioka, zhuo chen, dimitrios dimitriadis, william hinthorn, xuedong huang, andreas stolcke, michael zeng project the goal of project denmark is to move beyond the need for traditional microphone arrays, such as those supported by microsoft s speech devices sdk, to achieve highquality capture of meeting conversations. Huang who many people will tell you is an optimist by nature figured a fix should be easy enough. A guide to theory, algorithm and system development. We introduced an additional cnnblstm convolutional neural network combined with bidirectional longshortterm memory model for improved acoustic modeling, mentioned xuedong huang, technical fellow at microsoft.
Microsoft is making the tools that its own researchers use to speed up advances in artificial intelligence available to a broader group of developers by releasing its computational network toolkit on github the researchers developed the opensource toolkit, dubbed cntk, out of necessity. The companys speech recognition software has reached human parity, according to xuedong huang, the companys chief speech scientist, which. And then, when harry was running the research and technology group, i was helping incubate a wide range of ai projects from foundational pieces like a gpu cluster, project philly, the deep learning tool kit, cntk. Xuedong huang, who leads microsoft s speech and language group, announced the new milestone in a blog post. Distinguished engineer and chief architect, online services division dr. We cant wait to see the cool devices and applications that you will build with the microsoft speech devices sdk and the roobo smart audio dev kits. Training explore free online learning resources from videos to handsonlabs marketplace appsource find and try industry focused lineofbusiness and productivity apps. He is responsible for microsoft s azure ai engineering and research to bring the dream of making machines see, hear and understand human beings a reality he joined microsoft to found the companys speech technology group in 1993. Resources find downloads, white papers, templates, and events. October 20, 1962 is a chineseamerican computer scientist and the key person behind microsoft s spoken language processing technologies.
Xd joined microsoft to found the companys speech recognition team. Microsoft reaches milestone in speech recognition ai. Huang will be speaking about breaking human interaction barriersai, hololens and beyond. Microsoft cognitive toolkit beta released for deep. Huang grew up in hunan, china and became a us citizen in 1995. Xuedong xd huang serves as microsoft s chief speech scientist and leads microsoft s advanced technology group, which includes microsoft s worldwide advanced technology labs in egypt, israel, and germany. Xuedong huang business profile microsoft corporation. Additionally, our approach to combine predictions from multiple acoustic models now does so at both the framesenone and word.
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