

You may think of TTS as a unique form of technology used primarily in the educational field to assist students with reading or speech difficulties. One way in which businesses are attracting more customers is through the use of text-to-speech technology (TTS).

With more and more people using their mobile devices for online interaction, businesses are now faced with greater challenges to capture their audience’s attention and sustain interest – and that may mean a restructuring of their marketing strategies.

Language Technology Consulting and Audits.International Market Research and Competitive Analysis.Business Growth and Expansion (for Language Service Providers).Global Content: Buyer Behavior and International Products.Translation Process and Localization Program Consulting.Microsoft is launching the translation engine in a beta version on Windows 8.1 later this year. The Inquirer tested the Bing translate engine with a few paragraphs of Portuguese- to-English to see if they could find any errors, but found "it did an almost word perfect transition there and back." The feature works remarkably well in demonstrations. It's an exciting project, and it became clear that adding this capability to Skype and enabling people to have translated conversations was the killer scenario to get this technology into customers' hands." Skype will soon have the ability to translate multilingual conversations in real time, as Microsoft graduates software translations from written text to actual voice calls. The translations will be done simultaneously, displaying multilingual subtitles.Ĭhris Wendt, program manager of Microsoft's Machine Translation team, said " We felt speech translation was a very natural evolution of the text-translation work we've been doing. This article is from the archive of our partner.
