Yan Xia
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH SDE LEAD
About
Yan Xia is a senior dev lead in innovation engineering group at MSRA. He joined MSRA as intern in 2008 and became an FTE after he graduated from BUAA in 2011. Yan worked in multiple projects such as Microsoft academic search, image search and entity pane triggering in Bing, and English chatbot. Currently he is working on language learning project 微软小英 with researchers in speech and NLP domain, to help millions of English learners to practise English speaking.
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Tech Showcase: Interactive Chinese Learning App
When traveling to China it’s best to know at least a bit of the language. The mobile app called Learn Chinese can help travelers enjoy a better journey. Learn Chinese teaches in an interactive way, by using speech and natural…
Microsoft Xiaoying 微软小英
Microsoft Xiaoying is a WeChat public account which helps students in China to learn and practice English on mobile phones. It uses speech technologies to "chat" with users and evaluate their English pronunciation and other spoken abilities.