Microsoft in language computing
14 years, 9 months ago

Microsoft in language computing

The Hindu  

Microsoft India joins the World Classical Tamil Conference by sending its representatives to the seminar and participating exhibition. A release says the company’s spokespersons Kumaran and Michael Kaplan will present papers on the origin of Tamil Unicode and importance of language computing. The release says Microsoft India has been working on language computing in India since 1998 and has a number of products. ‘Internet Explorer 8’ in 18 additional languages on Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 Language Packs which allow users to access InPrivate Browsing, Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marati, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The release says Microsoft India has also launched Project Basha, a cohesive effort to bring together governments, academia and others on a common ground to promote local language usage in IT.

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National conference to discuss efficacy, improvement, and support of AI applications in Indian languages to be held on March 20
1 week ago

National conference to discuss efficacy, improvement, and support of AI applications in Indian languages to be held on March 20

The Hindu  

The Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, a scheme of the Ministry of Education implemented at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysuru, is organising a national conference on March 20. The theme of the conference is ‘Evaluation and benchmarking of publicly available artificial intelligence applications that support Indian languages’. The two-day national conference aims to discuss topics related …

AI companies race to adapt chatbots to India’s many languages
9 months ago

AI companies race to adapt chatbots to India’s many languages

Hindustan Times  

Global tech companies as well as local start-ups are looking to tap deeper into the Indian market with artificial intelligence platforms adapted for India’s vast range of languages, Financial Times wrote. Examples of companies and their products Microsoft, Google, and start-ups including Silicon Valley-backed Sarvam AI, founded just last year, and Krutrim, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal of Indian mobility group …

How are Indian languages faring in the age of AI and language models?
1 year, 9 months ago

How are Indian languages faring in the age of AI and language models?

The Hindu  

“Sanskrit suits the language of computers and those learning artificial intelligence learn it,” Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S. Somanath said at an event in Ujjain on May 25. “A large network is more powerful, can represent more complex functions, and needs more data to reach its maximum performance.” Data for ‘fine-tuning’ “The availability of text in each language is …

Microsoft announces four new languages added to Microsoft Translator
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft announces four new languages added to Microsoft Translator

The Hindu  

Microsoft India announced that it had added four new languages - Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi, and Sinhala - to its Microsoft Translator platform. The 16 Indian languages supported by the Microsoft Translator include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. Users of the Microsoft Translator app, the Edge browser, Office 365, …

Microsoft releases data set for speech training in Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati
6 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft releases data set for speech training in Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati

Firstpost  

Microsoft’s Indian Language Speech Corpus was tested at Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad. To help researchers and academia build Indian language speech recognition for all applications where speech is used, Microsoft India on Thursday launched its Indian language “Speech Corpus”, offering speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati. “Microsoft Indian Language Speech Corpus is an extension of …

Microsoft announces support for Tamil language on its Translator app in Office 365
7 years, 4 months ago

Microsoft announces support for Tamil language on its Translator app in Office 365

Firstpost  

People using Tamil language can listen to people speaking in the same language and see the translated text on their device with the Microsoft translator app. With this addition, users can now translate through “Bing Translator” website, “Microsoft Translator” apps, “PowerPoint” add-ins and API on Azure in over 60 text translation languages and 10 speech translation languages. People using Tamil …

We celebrate linguistic diversity, but technology is not available in local languages – Firstpost
8 years, 7 months ago

We celebrate linguistic diversity, but technology is not available in local languages – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Every Indian has a right to high speed broadband internet. Kiosks, ATMs, ticketing machines and vending machines in local languages will help in an increase in number of people using these services. Keyboards, software, search engines, mobile operating systems, all of these are more useful to people in local languages, if the latest technology tools and services are to be …

Online content in Indian languages low, says expert
10 years, 2 months ago

Online content in Indian languages low, says expert

India TV News  

Kolkata: Online content in Indian languages in the areas of entertainment, e-shopping and local services is significantly low in comparison to content in English, a programming expert said here Friday. According to M. Krishna Doss, senior program manager, Microsoft India, there is a shortage of original content in Indic languages which form the dominant linguistic family of the Indian subcontinent. …

IE9 Goes Multi-Lingual for India
13 years, 9 months ago

IE9 Goes Multi-Lingual for India

Firstpost  

The software giant aims to further its local language computing cause this way. When Microsoft’s popular Internet browsing tool rolls out its latest version, i.e Internet Explorer 9 in India, it will be made available in 11 different Indian regional languages - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. In a bid to promote its …

Multilingual Computing
17 years, 10 months ago

Multilingual Computing

The Hindu  

FROM the heady days in the late 1980s when C-DAC kickstarted Indian language text creation and editing with its pioneering Graphical and Intelligence-based Script Technology plug-ins for the personal computer, the institution has played a central role in bringing the benefits of computer technology to the `other India' for which English was not an option. A decade later, in 1997, …

Windows XP In Punjabi
18 years, 11 months ago

Windows XP In Punjabi

Firstpost  

Microsoft is deploying one strategy after the other to increase its penetration in India. After launching interfaces in South Indian languages, now th… Microsoft is deploying one strategy after the other to increase its penetration in India. Microsoft has launched the Punjabi language interface for Windows XP, under its India localisation programme - Project Bhasha. Our Project Bhasha is geared …

Where computers are truly 'personal'
23 years, 2 months ago

Where computers are truly 'personal'

The Hindu  

India's expertise in Information Technology has quietly matured enough to create products that suit the needs of its people, something that international 'shrink wrapped' solutions can never hope to do. It is possibly the first hand-held computer to work off three standard AAA-sized penlight cells and to forsake proprietary, "shrink wrapped" software such as Windows in favour of the free …

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