Microsoft adds 4 new languages to Translator
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Microsoft India on Thursday announced the addition of three new Indian languages -- Konkani, Maithili, and Sindhi, in Translator along with Sinhala, the official language of Sri Lanka.
Microsoft Translator now supports 16 Indian languages - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
"We are excited to announce that we are broadening our language capabilities to include Maithili, Konkani, Sindhi, and Sinhala. We celebrate and support India's diversity of language and culture with the most advanced AI to enable India's growth, by making access to technology pervasive," Rajiv Kumar, Managing Director, Microsoft India, said in a statement.
The company said that users can translate Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi, and Sinhala text, supported in more than 125 languages, for their apps, websites, workflows, and tools with Azure Cognitive Services Translator. Over two million people in India speak Konkani, primarily in the states of Goa, Maharashtra, and Karnataka.
