BLEU rates translation quality by comparing how close machine translations are to human ones. Whether it is for its mobile app or its Translator API, part of Microsoft Cognitive Services, Microsoft uses the industry standard BLEU score to measure its translation quality.
Now, with our NPU and Microsoft Translator software, customers get the best of both.”īaofeng(Felix) Zhang, VP of CBG software and Head of AI, HuaweiĪI-Powered Offline Translations using Neural Networks: The Numbers Better “Before, customers had to choose between the quality of online and the convenience of offline translations. Now, before you travel, you can download neural offline packs and have state-of-the-art neural translation at your fingertips, wherever you go. With spotty network coverage and high roaming costs, you may not have an internet connection. Imagine you are traveling and need to use the Translator app to ask for directions or understand a restaurant menu. What does this mean for users of the Microsoft Translator app on the Huawei Mate 10? This offers users a unique offline language experience not found on other devices: the power of neural network translation without an internet connection. By combining Microsoft latest advancement in NMT on-device technology, and Huawei Mate 10 NPU, both speed and quality of offline translations are dramatically boosted. Huawei’s Mate 10 is the first phone featuring a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for accelerating AI computing tasks.
Until now, due to the computational requirements of neural machine translation, it was not possible to do full Neural Machine Translation (NMT) on-device. The Microsoft Translator app with these capabilities comes pre-installed on Huawei Mate 10 devices allowing every Mate 10 user to have native access to online quality level translations even when they are not connected to the Internet. This results in dramatically better and faster offline translations as compared to existing offline packs. Microsoft achieved this breakthrough by partnering with Huawei to customize Microsoft’s new neural technology for Huawei’s new NPU (Neural Processing Unit) hardware. Microsoft is delivering the world’s first fully neural on device translations in the Microsoft Translator app for Android, customized for the Huawei Mate 10 series.