Microsoft Translator’s speech translation will now be powered by Neural Network


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Microsoft announced that neural networks will now power all the speech translations on Microsoft Translator. Skype Translator and Microsoft Translator app for mobile devices will now use neural networks

The technology is available to all developers and users who want to use the Microsoft Translator speech API to integrate the technology into their favorite apps and services. Neural networks powers a total of 10 languages supported by the Microsoft Translator speech API, namely Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish and Japanese. Microsoft says, these ten languages together represent more than 80% of the translations performed daily by Microsoft Translator.

Neural networks capture the context of full sentences before translating them, providing much higher quality and more human-sounding output. Just yesterday, Google announced that Google Translate app is now also powered by Neural Machine Translation.

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