Microsoft India adds Assamese as latest Indian language in Microsoft Translator

The Azure-based service will be providing real-time translation and transliteration support for the language.

With the help of Azure Cognitive Service Speech, users will also be able to translate any speech or sentence into Assamese text or to translate Assamese text into another language with speech output.

Besides being the official language of Assam, Assamese is spoken by more than 14 million people across the Northeastern states of India.

Currently, Microsoft is the only cloud service provider to support Assamese translation.

With the latest addition, Microsoft now supports 12 Indian languages – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

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