Microsoft adds five new Indian languages to its Microsoft Translator service

Microsoft India on Thursday announced that it will be adding five new Indian languages to its Microsoft Translator.

The Microsoft translator now supports ten Indian languages with the addition of Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam and Punjabi.

Previously, Microsoft Translator had support for Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu languages.

“With this, the service will now allow over 90% of Indians to access information and work in their native/preferred languages,” Microsoft said in its official statement.

The Microsoft Translator service is part of Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services API, a collection of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms.

Organizations can use these APIs provided on Azure to create custom software products for their businesses.