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Bring your phones to the conference table: creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
| Takuya Yoshioka, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Andreas Stolcke, and William Hinthorn
Recent advances in machine learning and signal processing, as well as the availability of massive computing power, have resulted in dramatic and steady improvement in speech recognition accuracy. Voice interfaces to digital devices have become more and more common. Lectures…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft pushes ahead with conversation transcription virtual microphone arrays
Microsoft Research's 'Project Denmark' technology allows users to use the microphones in phones and laptops to create a virtual array that can handle conversation transcription and more.
New Advancements in Spoken Language Processing
| Xuedong Huang
Deep learning algorithms, supported by the availability of powerful Azure computing infrastructure and massive training data, constitutes the most significant driving force in our AI evolution journey. In the past three years, Microsoft reached several historical AI milestones being the…
In the news | SlashGear
Microsoft’s Conversation Transcription demo wows as new hardware revealed
Microsoft has figured out real-time conversation transcription, revealing a new Azure-integrated conical reference design speaker along with a way to turn every phone and laptop in a meeting into an ad-hoc voice recognition array.