Software Language Translation

Microsoft Develops Software Language Translation

Microsoft Chief Research Officer, Rick Rashid has recently demonstrated a breakthrough language translation software that has the ability to recognize the voice and convert spoken words into text, and then translate it into another language.

Rick showed off Microsoft's software capabilities in Tianjin, China, precisely in the event Microsoft Research Asia's 21st Century Computing. Rick said the research collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Toronto, produces software that lowers the error rate in speech (speech) by more than 30 per cent than the previous method.

"Although still far from perfect, this is a dramatic change in terms of accuracy since the introduction of hidden Markov models in 1979. We add more data and we believe that we get better results," said Ricks, told Sci-tech-today, Sunday (11/11/2012).

Rick presented by converting English into Chinese in two stages. First, the system will look at the words of the speech and found equal (meaning) in Chinese. The second step, the system will rearrange the words issued in Chinese.

"Of course, there is the possibility of error, both in the UK and translasinya texts into Chinese. Sometimes the result can be a funny thing. However, technology has evolved to be very useful," he said.

Rick admits that this software is still not perfect and yet to be developed. He hopes that in a few years, Microsoft will have a language translation system can completely eliminate the language barrier.

"In other words, we do not need to wait until the 22nd century to have a language translation system that is equivalent to Star Trek universal translator. We hope that this breakthrough could remove barriers related to language and language barriers to understand each other," he concluded.