From Tanvi:
With the speech translation tech in Skype Translator, people can now have real-time automatically translated conversations in English, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
But speech translation tech is far from a perfect science. This talk is about what we learn from watching first-time users experience Skype Translator for the first time, and what are the biggest (and rather unexpected) problems we face while bringing Star Trek’s Universal Translator to life.
About Tanvi
Tania Surti in her own words:
I am a Program Manager at Microsoft Research where I work on translation tech that lets people have automatically translated voice conversations over Skype.
I also like writing code, playing the piano, launching into feminist rants and taking long naps.
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