The Microsoft Translator software now supports Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi, and Sinhala, a statement from Microsoft India read.

Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu are among the 16 Indian languages that the Microsoft Translator supports.

It can assist regular people with deciphering real-time discussions, menus, street signs, websites, and documents. Businesses can use it to expand their consumer base and go global, according to a news release from Microsoft on Thursday.

More than 95% of Indians would be able to access the internet in their favourite language. With Windows, iOS, Android, and the web, the Microsoft Translator can be used, it said

The translation features will also be available to users of the Microsoft Translator app, the Edge browser, Office 365, Bing Translator, and the Azure Cognitive Services Translator API.

Microsoft has been creating language models for translating and transliterating difficult Indian languages using deep neural networks. According to the business, "Deep Neural Networks are also sensitive to subtle linguistic differences like word type (verb, noun, adjective), word gender (feminine, masculine, neutral), and formality level (slang, casual, written, formal).

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