The Microsoft Translator live feature on PowerPoint allows one to display subtitles directly on PowerPoint presentation in any one of more than 60 supported text languages, including Hindi. Qton’s platform uses AI and cloud services to harness the power of advanced data science and machine learning algorithms to help the company expedite hiring and reduce turnaround time.Microsoft has been working towards enhancing the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over 25 years. Partnering with some of the top healthcare institutes, the company is helping in preventive care in ophthalmology and cardiology. The company is also helping in the early detection of diabetic retinopathy to prevent blindness through its partnership with Forus Health. This is the largest publicly available Indian language speech dataset which includes audio and corresponding transcripts to help researchers and academia build Indian language speech recognition for all applications where speech is used. In India, Microsoft aims to skill over 10,000 developers; set up AI labs in 10 universities, and train 500,000 youth across the country over the next three years. Additionally, virtual assistant Cortana also helps translate requests in real time, serving as a virtual translation assistant. MSR has developed the AI-powered Interactive Cane to aid people with visual impairment to navigate.Creating sustained social impact: Microsoft is enabling public and private organizations to apply Microsoft AI technologies to address pressing societal challenges.
Empowering people and organizations to solve global environmental challenges through the power of AI, the company had recently announced seven Indian grant recipients from India to deepen commitment to sustainability in the country. Over 700 business and government organizations have adopted its Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to drive breakthroughs in their digital transformation.Bridging the skills gap and enhancing employability: Microsoft believes the development of talent pipelines vital for economic growth and is working to empower individuals across all demographics with the skills needed to succeed in an AI-enabled world.AI for Earth- Microsoft’s USD 50M 5-year program- AI for Earth is dedicated to deploying Microsoft’s deep investments in AI research and technology in climate change, agriculture, biodiversity and water. This includes healthcare, education, agriculture, local language computing environmental sustainability, accessibility opportunities, and supporting humanitarian action. As part of the FarmBeats project, the company is also building several unique solutions to solve these problems using low-cost sensors, drones, and vision and machine learning algorithms. The company has also developed a Pest Risk Prediction API in partnership with United Phosphorous Limited (UPL) by leveraging AI and ML to indicate risks of pest attack in advance. Microsoft is building tools to automate the identification of bias in a range of different AI algorithms to ensure and fix biases that creep in because of human biases. The Dictate feature in Windows 10 enables users to express thoughts simply by dictating which can then be translated into more than 60 languages, including Hindi using the Microsoft AI-powered Translate feature. 2018 saw plastic injection machine Manufacturers Microsoft roll out several new projects across healthcare, including a partnership with Apollo Hospitals to use AI for early detection of cardiac diseases. We are also an active participant along with CII in looking at building solution frameworks for application in AI across areas such as Education, skills, health and agriculture.In partnership with Apollo Hospitals, Microsoft is working to predict cardiovascular diseases early through AI-powered Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score API (application program interface).Qton, a Talent Assistant Chatbot, built on top of Microsoft’s Bot Framework & Luis NLP aims to make a significant impact in recruitment automation by improving the hiring process and enhancing the experience for the candidates. Microsoft India is partnering with NITI Aayog to combine the cloud, AI, research and its vertical expertise for new initiatives and solutions across several core areas including agriculture and healthcare and the environment..Microsoft also made available the Indian language Speech Corpus to offer speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati.AI for HR- Microsoft aims to enable better merging of digital expertise and human interaction, thereby enhancing the recruitment process for candidates and the company. AI can help HR professionals make smart hiring decisions. In its mission to empower every organization and individual on the planet to achieve more, it is deploying its AI solutions in areas ranging across healthcare, education, agriculture, retail, e-commerce, manufacturing and financial services.