{"id":585154,"date":"2019-05-09T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=585154"},"modified":"2020-11-12T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:43:43","slug":"project-denmark","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/project-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of Project Denmark is to move beyond the need for traditional microphone arrays, such as those supported by Microsoft\u2019s <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/speech-service\/get-speech-devices-sdk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speech Devices SDK<\/a>, to achieve high-quality capture of meeting conversations. Instead, virtual microphone arrays are dynamically created from consumer-grade devices, such as mobile phones or laptops equipped with ordinary microphones. \u00a0Algorithms for combining speech information at multiple levels yield transcription accuracy that approaches that from close-talking microphones, with many potential applications. For example, we may pair multiple <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/translator.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Translator<\/a> applications to help meeting participants communicate more effectively across language barriers. Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/meeting-recognition-and-understanding\/\">meeting understanding<\/a> technology may be enabled by the speaker-attributed transcripts resulting from Project Denmark, without <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/speech-service\/conversation-transcription-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">specially designed hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-12-24\" >\n\t\t<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Azure Speech Service Vision Keynote Demo \/\/ Microsoft Build 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EYinMnQWgfU?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><p>Watch the demonstration of the speech translation and transcription service prototype at Microsoft Build 2019. \t<\/div>\n\t \t<div  class=\"m-col-12-24\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/new-advancements-in-spoken-language-processing\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-584608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/05\/speech-figure-1-300x168.png\" alt=\"Graphic showing different microphone arrays\" width=\"561\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/05\/speech-figure-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/05\/speech-figure-1-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/05\/speech-figure-1.png 1024w, 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