How deeply does Microsoft Azure in Action cover machine translation?

Explains the speech-recognition, translation, and optional speech-synthesis pipeline, and contrasts streaming with batch review.

Machine translation

As explained in Microsoft Azure in Action

Machine translation is the automated conversion of text or speech from one natural language into another.

Machine translation converts text or speech from one natural language into another. For spoken audio, a translation workflow can recognize speech, translate the resulting text, and optionally turn it into spoken audio. section 7.2.3

Choose a workflow based on when the translation is needed:

Use streaming for live events: captions can appear with low latency, and translated speech can be played if needed. section 7.2.3
Use batch processing for recorded audio when there is time to edit or have a person review the translated output before publishing. section 7.2.3
Improve results with clean audio and the correct source locale. Review translations intended for publication; machine translation can make mistakes. section 7.2.3

Multilingual events

At a live author Q&A, Banning Books can provide real-time Spanish and French captions. For a recorded panel, it can create dubbed audio in multiple languages and review it before publication. section 7.2.3

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