Microsoft has announced various upgrades to its AI chatbot Copilot lately. It just announced the integration of its chatbot within the Telegram app. And now, Microsoft is working on making Copilot more accessible, especially for Indians. Microsoft 365 Copilot now supports various regional Indian languages too. This was announced via a press release on Wednesday, let’s find out more about it.
If you are a Copilot user, living in India, then you are in luck. The chatbot now allows you to converse with it in various Indian languages. This includes Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Telugu. This integration will allow those who do not speak English to also adopt AI and use it on a day-to-day basis. This will be particularly beneficial for small businesses, students, and professionals who are more comfortable with their regional languages. Microsoft particularly wants to help the education sector with this new update.
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“By integrating regional languages, we’re making technology more inclusive and accessible,” said Pavan Kumar Verma, Regional Business Head at Embee Software, a leading Microsoft LSP partner in India. “Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of language, can benefit from AI advancements.”
Now that Copilot also understands other regional languages, it can help users in translating stuff from English to their regional language or from their regional language to English. And even in other different languages at the same time. This opens up a lot of possibilities.
Microsoft has also noticed that there has been an increase in user engagement ever since they introduced regional language support.
I feel that other companies should also incorporate regional languages into their chatbots. Keeping it solely in English creates an accessibility barrier as not a lot of Indians are comfortable with the language. What are your thoughts on it? Let me know in the comments.
