Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages
Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52 models and is tested with communities in real settings.
Research Intern – Natural Language Processing for Healthcare
Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences (HLS) group is driving a healthcare revolution with AI-powered solutions like Dragon Copilot. These innovations empower healthcare professionals to enhance patient care, improve outcomes, boost productivity, and reduce burnout. Our…
Research Intern – Applied Speech Research
The Health and Life Sciences (HLS) group at Microsoft is dedicated to advancing healthcare and life sciences through innovative technology solutions, fostering collaboration, and driving impactful research to improve patient outcomes and streamline healthcare operations.…
UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning
AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language models.
AI for Low-Resource Languages
< AI for Good Lab Language is more than communication—it sustains culture, identity, and opportunity. Yet most of the world’s languages remain underrepresented in today’s AI systems because they have limited digital content, few high-quality…
Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights
Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.