Windows 10: Microsoft Speech Technology used for email attacks: How to stop this?

[Greg]M · Oct 16, 2018

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Microsoft Speech Technology used for email attacks: How to stop this? Is this using voice through a mobile number? Bot generated voice messages?

From: Microsoft Outlook On Behalf Of CITY OF FEDRAL (No email address available)
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 2:33 PM
To: removed for privacy
Subject: Voice Mail from CITY OF FEDRAL (1 minute and 4 seconds)

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The email message and attached voicemail file may contain confidential information. Please exercise caution in distributing the message. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Mohammed Yaseer · Oct 16, 2018

Windows Speech Recognition

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would require more information to help you better.

Are facing any issue with speech recognition?

I would suggest you to follow the steps to see Advance speech options.

Press Windows+X key on the keyboard

Click on control panel

Select speech recognition

On the left hand pane you will see Advance speech option

I would also suggest you to refer to the below link:

How to use Speech Recognition

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/using-speech-recognition

(Step applies to Windows 10 as well)

Hope this information helps and let us know if you have any further queries related to Windows we will be glad to help you.

Brink · Oct 16, 2018

Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation

Today, we released a new version of Microsoft Translator API that adds real-time speech-to-speech (and speech to text) translation capabilities to the existing text translation API. Powered by Microsoft's state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies, this capability has been available to millions of users of Skype for over a year, and to iOS and Android users of the Microsoft Translator apps since late 2015. Now, businesses will be able to add these speech translation capabilities to their applications or services and offer more natural and effective user experiences to their customers and staff.

Speech translation is available for eight languages — Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Translation to text is available in all of Microsoft Translator's 50+ supported languages. Translation to spoken audio is available in 18 supported languages.

This new version of Microsoft Translator is the first end-to-end speech translation solution optimized for real-life conversations (vs. simple human to machine commands) available on the market. Before today, speech translation solutions needed to be cobbled together from a number of different APIs (speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis), were not optimized for conversational speech or designed to work with each other. Now, end users and businesses alike can remove language barriers with the integration of speech translation in their familiar apps and services.

How can my business use speech translation technology?

Speech translation can be used in a variety of person-to-person, group or human-to-machine scenarios. Person-to-person scenarios may include one-way translation such as personal translation, subtitling, or remote or in-person multi-lingual communications similar to what is currently found in Skype Translator or the Microsoft Translator apps for iOS and Android. Group scenarios could include real-time presentations such as event keynotes, webcasts and university classes, or gatherings such as in —person meetings or online gaming chatrooms. Human-to-machine scenarios could include business intelligence scenarios (such as the analysis or customer calls logs) or AI interactions.

We are just starting to scratch the surface of the scenarios where this technology will help and, as it is machine learning based, its quality and therefore applicability will improve with time as more people and companies are using it.

If you are at the Build Conference in San Francisco tomorrow (Thursday, March 31st) be sure to check out the presentation by Harry Shum, Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Technology and Research, to learn more about this new capability and see live demos of apps created by Microsoft Translator partner companies.

How does speech translation work?

Speech-to-speech translation is a very complex challenge. It uses the latest AI technologies, such as deep neural networks for speech recognition and text translation. There is no other fully-integrated speech translation solution available on the market today and delivering a platform that would support real-life speech translation scenarios required going beyond simply stitching together existing speech recognition and text translation technologies. There are four stages to speech translation to be able to deliver this experience:

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — A deep neural network trained on thousands of hours of audio analyzes incoming speech. This model is trained on human-to-human interactions rather than human-to-machine commands, producing speech recognition that is optimized for normal conversations.

TrueText — A Microsoft Research innovation, TrueText takes the literal text and transforms it to more closely reflect user intent. It achieves this by removing speech disfluencies, such as “um”s and “ah”s, as well as stutters and repetitions. The text is also made more readable and translatable by adding sentence breaks, proper punctuation and capitalization. (see picture below)

Translation — The text is translated into any of the 50+ languages supported by Microsoft Translator. The eight speech languages have been further optimized for conversations by training on millions of words of conversational data using deep neural networks powered language models.

Text to Speech — If the target language is one of the eighteen speech languages supported, the text is converted into speech output using speech synthesis. This stage is omitted in speech-to-text translation scenarios such as video subtitling.

How do I get started?

It's easy to get started with the new Microsoft Translator Speech API. A free 2 hour trial is available at aka.ms/TranslatorADMSpeech. You can test out setup and implementation in a virtual environment as well as read the API documentation on our new Swagger page. You can also find example apps and other useful information on GitHub.
Of course, if you have questions, issues, or feedback, we'd love to hear it! You can let us know on our feedback and support forum.

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What is automatic translation?

Microsoft Translator home

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Microsoft Translator FAQ

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Source: Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the world’s first Speech Translation API - Microsoft Translator Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Brink · Oct 16, 2018

Using speech in your UWP apps: It’s good to talk

As developers, we adapt as technologies move from the realm of Science Fiction into readily available SDKs. That’s certainly, or perhaps especially, true for speech technologies. In the past 5 years, devices have become more personal and demanding of new forms of interaction.

In Windows 10, speech is front-and-center with the Cortana personal assistant, and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) gives us several ways to plug into that “Hey, Cortana” experience. But there’s much more that we can do when working with speech from a UWP app and that’s true whether working locally on the device or remotely via the cloud.

In this 3-part series, we will dig in to some of those speech capabilities and show that speech can be both a powerful and a relatively easy addition to an app. This series will look at…

the basics of getting speech recognized

how speech recognition can be guided

how we can synthesize speech

additional capabilities in the cloud for our UWP apps

In today’s post, we’ll start with the basics.

Just because we can doesn’t always mean we should

Using a “natural” interaction mechanism like speech requires thought and depends on understanding users’ context:

What are they trying to do?

What device are they using?

What does sensor information tell us about their environment?

As an example, delivering navigation directions via speech when users are driving is helpful because their hands and eyes are tied up doing other things. It’s less of a binary decision, though, if the users are walking down their city streets with their devices held at arms’ length—speech might not be what they are looking for in this context.

Context is king, and it’s not easy to always get it right even with a modern device that’s packed with sensors. Consider your scenarios carefully and look at our guidance around these types of interactions before getting started...
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Read more: Using speech in your UWP apps: Its good to talk | Building Apps for Windows

Windows 10: Microsoft Speech Technology used for email attacks: How to stop this?

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