Breaking the Language Barrier — How AI Speech Translation Is Rewriting Our Digital Lives

In this episode, Prof. Hung-yi Lee, Professor at National Taiwan University, interviews Dr. Jinyu Li, Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft. Their conversation traces the evolution of speech translation from traditional cascaded pipelines to today's end-to-end, large language model (LLM)-powered systems. Jinyu Li Dr. Jinyu Li is Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft, where he leads a science team advancing speech, translation, and language technologies. He is an IEEE Fello...