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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Senior Applied Scientist – Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (MAI) – Ads Engineering
We’re hiring a Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and Ads recommender systems in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA. This role is part of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence (MAI)-Ads Engineering and…
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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 – 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.…