Microsoft Can Make Your Voice Speak Foreign Languages
Ever wonder what you’d sound like speaking German? Or maybe Mandarin? Microsoft Research has a new technology they’re cooking up which will take the sound of your voice and synthesize it as part a spoken language translator.
According to MIT’s Technology Review, the system in it’s current form requires an hour of training (which, presumably, means an hour of you talking to a computer), and can translate between 26 different languages.
