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.
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Beyond Swahili: Designing Inclusive AI for Bantu Languages
Swahili has become one of the most consistently represented African languages in modern AI benchmarks, spanning machine translation, language modeling, and multilingual evaluation suites, far exceeding the coverage of any other Bantu language. This prominence…
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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.
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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…
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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.…
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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.
