Microsoft Research is working on a project that will let users translate their own voice into other languages



From Techradar:

During a demonstration at Microsoft's Redmond campus, research scientist Frank Soong showed off the translation skills of the new software which could see Star Trek's Universal Translator become reality. In the demo he translated the voice Microsoft Research's Rick Rashid into Spanish, Italian and Mandarin Chinese.Soong said: for a monolingual speaker traveling in a foreign country, we'll do speech recognition followed by translation, followed by the final text to speech output [in] a different language, but still in his own voice.

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