Text and Speech Translation – Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing
Text and Speech Translation
Text translation makes it easy to translate documents, emails, and other media from other countries, whether they are official or not. This service even provides an option to translate the web pages. Social media sites use this tool for their users to take advantage of it and understand the posts made in any foreign language. On the other hand, the speech translation service gets our audio words transcribed into the target language either through direct speech or by outputting it as a text document.
Microsoft Azure provides us tools that make speech and text translation easy and convenient. The following are two services by them:
- Text-to-text translation is supported by the Translator service.
- Speech-to-text and speech-to-speech translation are offered by the speech service.
You can also make a cognitive services resource that lets you use both services through a single Azure resource. Now, applications can reach both services with a single endpoint and authentication key. This makes billing easier.
Also, a cognitive services resource can be made to make it easier to use both services. When there is only one endpoint and one authentication key, it is easier to use a resource, bill for it, and get access to it.
Microsoft Azure Platform for Conversational AI
Power Virtual Agents and the Azure Bot Service are the most important parts of Microsoft Azure’s conversational AI service.
Azure Bot Service
Azure Bot Service is a platform for creating, publishing, and maintaining Azure bots. After you’ve created and published it, you can use the Azure Bot Service as a client to receive content from the knowledge base and provide it to consumers via a bot.
Develop a Knowledge Base
Having the freedom to create our own custom bot and doing so with our own code is a fantastic feature of Azure. Using the Microsoft Bot SDK, we use our own knowledge of QnA Maker to set up our bot. To create, publish, and develop a bot based on our own knowledge base, we don’t even have to invest a lot of time.