Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
Microsoft Research Blog
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.
Career Opportunity
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.…
Microsoft Research Blog
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.
Career Opportunity
Applied Scientist – Core AI Speech
The Core AI Speech Group brings together talents in the areas of signal processing, speech modeling, statistical modeling and deep learning to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable speech technologies, across a rich set…
Project
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…
Video
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.
Publication
BYOL: Bring Your Own Language into LLMs
Career Opportunity
Research Intern – Microsoft Teams (PhD)
This role is specifically for a Microsoft Teams Research Intern — you’ll work on advanced research that supports innovation in collaboration and communication technologies. Projects may involve exploring cutting-edge areas such as AI-driven productivity tools,…