Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word (short)

Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language. The breakthrough is patterned after deep neural networks and significantly reduces errors in spoken as well as written translation. Shortened from the full 9-minute demonstration:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=175450