Azure Cognitive Services Research

May 14, 2018 | Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Introduction Speech technology has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell’s famous Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you became the first speech to be heard over the telephone in 1876. Today, speech technology has…

August 20, 2017 | Xuedong Huang

Last year, Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group announced a milestone in reaching human parity on the Switchboard conversational speech recognition task, meaning we had created technology that recognized words in a conversation as well as professional human transcribers. After…