Using the Speech Translation API to transcribe and translate 1,000 hours of audio per month costs USD 7,000 per month and 10,000 hours leaves you with a USD 35,000 bill. Microsoft does not provide the corpus all for the sake of the greater good, of course. Microsoft wants the corpus to become the “gold standard…for speech language translation.”
Users of the technology include Lionbridge (automatic subtitling), telecom provider Tele2 (live translation of phone conversations), and ProDeaf (multilingual support of speech-to-sign scenarios). In a bid to ask clients and partners to help accelerate progress, Microsoft released a large, 2GB Speech Language Translation Corpus so users of the Microsoft Translator Speech API have a baseline “to evaluate end-to-end conversational speech translation quality.”Īpplications for the API range from making large repositories of audio files searchable by transcribing them into text, real-time subtitling and machine translating those subtitles, or one-to-one, in-person or remote live translation (full-circle back to the universal translator).
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