Tag: Microsoft

Spence Green An AI Vision For Localization

Supported By Lilt Spence Green explains how his experience as a research scientist at Google Translate over a decade ago sparked a grand idea: use AI to make all products and services available in all the world’s languages. Cut to modern day, and his company LILT is hard at work towards that vision. Green spoke with MultiLingual about what’s next for LILT and where he sees the localization industry going.

XL8 Joins Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, Revolutionizing Language Translation

SAN JOSE, Calif. — XL8, a Silicon Valley tech company providing AI-powered machine translation technology, is excited to announce its acceptance into the prestigious...

Microsoft partners with TAUS to provide domain-specific machine translation on Azure...

Microsoft and TAUS are proud to announce the launch of our latest feature for Custom Translator - domain-specific translation models! This new feature will allow customers to easily access pre-built custom models for specific industries and use cases.

The Week in Review: March 3, 2023

An API for ChatGPT, a new and improved Microsoft Translator iOS app, and more.

Straker reports strong growth in quarterly report

Straker Translations reported on Friday that it has earned $33 million NZD (19.37 million USD) in revenue during the first half of Fiscal Year...

UIUC partners with tech companies to improve speech recognition for individuals...

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple may have competing interests, but they’ve recently found one thing to work together on: All five of these big tech companies have joined forces to support the Speech Accessibility Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Fujitsu adds te reo Māori language on ServiceNow

Information and communications technology company Fujitsu Aotearoa New Zealand introduces the te reo Māori language on digital workflow platform ServiceNow to reduce communication barriers...

Microsoft adds Ukrainian to Reading Progress platform

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that its Reading Progress tool — a free platform that allows teachers to assess students’ reading progress — will include Ukrainian in its list of available languages.

Consoltec Turns into a Microsoft Associate

Consoltec turns into a Microsoft associate and takes FlowFit-TMS to an entire new degree. Consoltec is a software program firm that has devoted 20 years...

Two new languages in Microsoft Translator: Somali and Zulu

Today, Microsoft is adding two new languages to Translator’s ever-growing list of languages—Somali and Zulu! Somali and Zulu text translation is available now in...

Microsoft introduces updates to Microsoft Translator

Earlier this week Microsoft announced a new upgrade to its machine translation (MT) software, Microsoft Translator. The updated version utilizes Z-code, a multilingual artificial...

Microsoft and Canadian government partner to create MT for indigenous languages

Microsoft Translator now offers Inuinnaqtun and a romanized version of Inuktitut, which were developed with the support of the government of Nunavut, Canada, and other community groups. Inuktitut, which is the most widely known and spoken dialect of the Inuktut language, was first added to Microsoft Translator in Jan. 2021. When it was first added to the platform, Microsoft Translator could only translate it using the native Inuktitut syllabary system.