Microsoft Translator adds five Indian languages to support cross-border online education

Microsoft Translation team has announced that they are on an ongoing mission to break down language barriers. Microsoft has added five Indian languages: Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, and Kannada to its translator service. These five languages, according to Microsoft, are widely used in different regions of India and around the world by a large Indian diaspora.

The Microsoft Translator team has said that they work continuously to improve translation quality based on technology advancements and usage signals. "Neural machine translation technology has recently achieved impressive quality gains, characterized by highly fluent and accurate output. Using multilingual neural machine learning, the Translator team has leveraged data from languages belonging to the same family to build and refine these models and greatly enhance their quality. With this release, Microsoft Translator now translates ten languages of the Indian subcontinent covering 90% of commonly used languages in India," said the statement released by Microsoft.

These languages are available now on all Microsoft Translator apps, add-ins, Bing Translator, Microsoft Office and through the Azure Cognitive Services Translator API for businesses and developers. They will also be rolled out to the new Microsoft Edge browser and other Microsoft products in the coming days.

Neural machine translation models for these newly supported languages are now available as part of the Microsoft Translator API, a member of the Azure Cognitive Services family. These services can be used to build translation solutions to help globalize businesses and improve customer interactions, says Microsoft.

Microsoft also suggests that the translator's users can create a more inclusive classroom for both students and parents with live captioning and cross-language understanding. The Translator app for Windows, iOS, Android and the web can be used for translations of real-time conversations, menus, and street signs, websites, documents and more, reveals Microsoft.