Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service added two new languages — Top Tech Notes
Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service which is the Microsoft Azure translator service has now added two new languages, Basque and Galician, to the list of languages supported by it. Both, Basque and Galician, are Western European languages spoken by 750,000 and 2.4 million people respectively.
Basque is not related to any other modern language and is spoken in northern Spain and southern France in a region that straddles the Pyrenees Mountains. Galician is spoken in northern Portugal and western Spain. It is a Romance language that is closely related to Portuguese. Both languages are co-official languages of Spain.
Using Microsoft Azure Translator service, we can translate to or from any of 100+ languages and dialects, now including Basque and Galician.
Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) services that help you build cognitive intelligence into your applications. They are available as REST APIs, client library SDKs, and user interfaces. You can add cognitive features to your applications without having AI or data science skills. Cognitive Services enable you to build cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even make decisions.
Cognitive Services brings AI within reach of every developer and data scientist. With leading models, a variety of use cases can be unlocked. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate advanced decision-making into our apps. Enable developers and data scientists of all skill levels to easily add AI capabilities to their apps.
Benefits of Translator Service
The Translator helps to break the language barrier so that people can communicate freely in their language of choice and be understood by anyone around the globe. Whether you are a tourist travelling abroad, recently moved to a new country, or trying to email someone on the other side of the world, Translator powers the tools that help communicate.
Translator is integrated into Microsoft products and is available as a service to help expand the reach of business. With Microsoft 365, previously known as Office, business can instantly translate Word documents, Excel spread sheets, and PowerPoint presentations to make them accessible to a worldwide workforce or global customer base. Business can easily translate Outlook emails to communicate around the globe.
Using Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, we can add text translation to apps, websites, workflows, and tools; or we can use Translator’s Document Translation feature to translate entire documents, or volumes of documents, in a variety of different file formats preserving their original formatting.
You can also build neural translation systems that understand the terminology used in business and industry with Custom Translator. The customized translation system can then be used with Text and Document Translation to seamlessly integrate into existing applications, workflows and websites.
Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, can also be used on Microsoft Translator app for iOS and Android as our personal translator. With the Microsoft Translator app, we can translate text, voice, images, and conversations. Translator for Bing is also available to translate text quickly on the web. We can use the Translator feature of the Edge browser to read webpages from around the world. We can quickly switch between languages on our mobile device with SwiftKey, and use Outlook to communicate with people via email regardless of the language they speak.
Originally published at https://toptechnotes.com on April 18, 2022.
