Author: RobKnies
Translation: Xie Yu-Chi
In recent years, the computer seems to become more effective (responsive), people can deal with very complex documents, storage and filter large volumes of data, or you can contact the worldwide exchange of many objects, but these often complex tasks by simply clicking a button.
Today's computing equipment very good at these similar tasks, and for some tasks, the computer's functionality appears to have reached its height.But this is not always true, the future of computers — perhaps it should be said that in the near future, such as five to ten years — will make nowadays we considered a miracle of things completely negligible.
For example, the computer can be a very good finish user instructions; however, if your computer does not wait for the user's instructions to complete some tasks, this sounds like?In other words, if your computer is able to predict your needs and your will to work, what will become? this sounds a bit less number of realistic, with a point of science fiction, but also not too early to reach a conclusion.
In today's environment, we need to deal with the rapid increase of the data, once the computer to be able to intelligently analyzes the information, it will mean that you go to bed, entertainment or busy with other tasks, the computer will also be able to separate your sharing out a lot of work.Now ask you to imagine, have a very fast computer, it can do you worry about for something to help you before you get rid of all these things; it is also capable of processing information instantly, allowing you to focus fully on other more pressing things.
This computer appears to be very consistent with present day dream and aspirations of the ideal home technology, you might say, this must be a delusion, its ambitions go beyond the boundaries of science and technology innovation. But this year, Microsoft's technology section (TechFest 2010) of the visitors may have different opinions.Now we will be the Microsoft Research Asia simultaneous interpretation phone, for example, to go snooping technology of the future:
Suppose you are a United States merchants, and Germany met a colleague.
The most convenient way is by telephone, but this is not Germany colleagues speak English, but you only speak English. In this case, it seems too late to find a suitable translation, what will you do then? so far, very few of possible solutions. But soon, very soon have a new scheme, because Microsoft has developed a new technology – simultaneous calls (Translating! Telephone）！This project, the three key technologies: speech recognition (speechrecognition), machine translation (machinetranslation) and text-to-speech conversion (text-to-speech).
I believe Microsoft technologies section of participants see these technologies, certainly could not hide her excitement."The translator between different voice has traditionally been of concern to many researchers," KitThambiratnam, Microsoft Research Asia voice (Speech Group), a researcher said, "but this translator is very difficult to achieve, you need to combine a lot of it is not perfect technology.
But our concern is a natural conversation with real-time performance in colloquial language, rather than a narrative or a structured language, which became even more difficult. "While the three related technologies are still evolving, when the project put these technologies in turn are concatenated together, you can render a very stable experience.On the map from Thambiratnam (speaks English) angle to see and hear content: Seide said German be transcribed to text, the text is translated into English — both language text you can see on the screen;
Thambiratnam can also hear the English text of the English speech synthesis.Thambiratnam said: "when a variety of different backgrounds need to Exchange, our technology can offer great convenience.
" Thambiratnam with simultaneousInterpreting the phone shows a scene: Thambiratnam speaks English, he will bring his Germany citizenship Manager FrankSeide a call, the phone is through VoIP tone character conversion (voice-overIP). First of all, the German is Seide said in a speech recognizer recognition, then Microsoft Redmond Institute (MicrosoftResearch Redmond) invention machine translation technology to translate into English, German and English language preparation for English voice (via text-to-speech conversion of speech synthesis techniques (text-to-speech), described below), so the Thambiratnam sounds like Seide in speaking English. Similarly, Thambiratnam said English was also translated into German. In this way, you can achieve different telephone conversation between the languages. Make the effect really able to realize it is important to ensure that the conversion of text can be rendered to the dialogue of the two sides, in the event of a dialogue between the two sides are not clear, you can convert text to repeat relevant content to quickly solve the related problems."As a spoken language and can use Bing translation machine to translate written language are quite different, it is for us a great challenge," Seide explained that "we start speaking into a more structured form of written language, and then passes it to the translation module.
”Simultaneous interpretati
on system from English VoIP technology (this technology to provide users with a real-time text transcription of the telephone) evolved, these transcription text may not be perfect, but their advantage lies in the context of the "cut-and-paste (cut-and-pastescenarios)" can store, browse, search, and modify.In addition, Microsoft Research Asia voice group leader Dr. song ge ping and his colleagues developed the text-to-speech conversion of speech synthesis techniques (text-to-speechtechnologies, TTS, this technology can be text into vivid voice) on realization of simultaneous telephone with a very important significance, this technology makes from text to speech conversion sounds more natural.
At the same time, the development of Thambiratnam Seide and dialogue speech recognition technology has also played a crucial role.
"There is a proverb say that ' useless input is useless output (garbagein, garbageout) ' get the correct text is very important to us. We use a machine learning algorithm to automatically form a more accurate personal voice mode, "Thambiratnam said that" users don't need to spend effort, they speak through VoIP phone on it, the system will learn their language, and then getting better and better, and more like. ”Considering that simultaneous interpretation into the phone's tremendous progress involving technology, they facilitate our daily communication role seems to be just around the corner, Thambiratnam said: "we have to do much more, these technologies are not perfect, but we believe that these technologies should be enough to help both the mother tongue of different people for daily communication, as long as they speak a little more careful and occasionally repeat fuzzy.
”The figure for Seide and Thambiratnam
Seide and Thambiratnam on their achievements and the future of this technology are very satisfied with the development, Seide said: "I think the coolest thing we put the speech recognizer for translation in the text, this means that when from one screen of the PC when you call, the user will be able to while listening looking screen with a portion of text, without waiting for the end of a sentence.
”When asked about these techniques on the role of transnational exchanges, Thambiratnam said: "cross-voice communication is the grand vision of computing technology, we are one of those technologies is its first step that most makes me excited people through our technology can understand each other in what to say (getit)"
"I believe all the people in the world will be excited, and who would not wish to have such a system?, such a system able to perfect the entire world.
”The original English text: YourBehalf Working on Computers
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