Microsoft AI Event in China

I visited Beijing last week and learned a great deal from Microsoft's AI //innovate event in China - our 2nd largest developer base for Cognitive Services on Azure. The most heart-felt demo was Harry Shum could communicate with an almost deaf student of Nanjing University of Technology. Using two mobile phones with Microsoft Translator, the deaf student not only had no problem to communicate with Harry but also removed his language barriers between Chinese and English! I started speech recognition research as a graduate student in Beijing's Tsinghua University more than 35 years ago. My graduate student dream was to help people communicate better without language barriers.