{"id":17506,"date":"2015-09-20T02:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T09:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/microsoft-demos-english-to-chinese-universal-translator-that-keeps-your-voice-and-accent-alternative-world-news-network-at-an-event-in-china"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:17:07","slug":"microsoft-demos-english-to-chinese-universal-translator-that-keeps-your-voice-and-accent-alternative-world-news-network-at-an-event-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/microsoft-demos-english-to-chinese-universal-translator-that-keeps-your-voice-and-accent-alternative-world-news-network-at-an-event-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft demos English-to-Chinese universal translator that keeps your voice and accent Alternative World News Network At an event in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-demos-english-to-chinese-universal-translator-that-keeps-your-voice-and-accent-alternative-world-news-network-at-an-event-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft demos English-to-Chinese universal translator that keeps your voice and accent.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative World News Network.<\/p>\n<p>At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the software also preserves the user\u2019s accent and intonation. We\u2019re not just talking about a digitized, robotic translator here \u2014 this is firmly within the realms of Doctor Who or Star Trek universal translation.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to appreciate this technology is to watch the video below. The first six minutes or so is Rick Rashid explaining the fundamental difficulty of computer translation, and then the last few minutes actually demonstrate the software\u2019s English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Sadly I don\u2019t speak Chinese, so I can\u2019t attest to the veracity of the translation, but the audience \u2014 some 2,000 Chinese students \u2014 seems rather impressed. A professional English\/Chinese interpreter also remarked to me that the computer translation is surprisingly good; not quite up to the level of human translation, but it\u2019s getting close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlternativeWorldNews\/photos\/a.157200904322782.28222.154779684564904\/471734526202750\/?type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft demos English-to-Chinese universal translator that keeps your voice and accent. Alternative World News Network. At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the software also preserves the user\u2019s accent and intonation. We\u2019re not just talking about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51421,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions\/51421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}