{"id":116715,"date":"2020-08-14T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=438744"},"modified":"2020-08-14T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:01:24","slug":"microsoft-translator-adds-text-translation-in-odia-spoken-by-35m-in-india-and-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/microsoft-translator-adds-text-translation-in-odia-spoken-by-35m-in-india-and-across-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Translator adds text translation in Odia, spoken by 35M in India and across the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
Image: Konark Sun Temple in the state of Orissa near Bhubaneshwar city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, we are happy to announce that we have added Odia text translation to Microsoft Translator. Odia is available now, or will be available soon, in the Microsoft Translator\u202fapp<\/a>, Office,\u202fTranslator for Bing<\/a>, and through the\u202fAzure Cognitive Services\u202fTranslator<\/a> for businesses and developers.<\/p>\n

Odia is spoken by 35 million people in India and across the world. It joins Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English as the 12th commonly used language of the Indian subcontinent to be available in Microsoft Translator.<\/p>\n

The Odia language (\u0b13\u0b21\u0b3c\u0b3f\u0b06)<\/h2>\n

Odia (pronounced o\u1e5bi\u0101) is an Indo-European language native to Eastern India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Odisha and is also spoken in the nearby states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n

Odia is one of six languages of India to be granted to the status of a \u201cClassical Language\u201d by the Indian government, and has a history of literature stretching back over 1000 years.<\/p>\n

Here are some (more modern) words and phrases in the Odia language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
English<\/strong><\/th>\nOdia (\u0b13\u0b21\u0b3c\u0b3f\u0b06)<\/strong><\/th>\nPronunciation<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Hello<\/td>\n\u0b28\u0b2e\u0b38\u0b4d\u0b15\u0b3e\u0b30<\/td>\nNamasc\u0101ra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My name is\u2026<\/td>\n\u0b2e\u0b4b\u0b30 \u0b28\u0b3e\u0b2e \u2026<\/td>\nMora n\u0101ma \u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Do you speak Odia?<\/td>\n\u0b06\u0b2a\u0b23 \u0b13\u0b21\u0b3c\u0b3f\u0b06 \u0b15\u0b41\u0b39\u0b28\u0b4d\u0b24\u0b3f \u0b15\u0b3f?<\/td>\n\u0100pa\u1e47a \u014d\u1e5bi\u0101 kuhanti ki?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Learn more about Odia on Bing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What you can do with Microsoft Translator<\/h2>\n

At home<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translate real-time conversations, menus and street signs, websites, documents, and more using the Microsoft Translator app for Windows, iOS, Android, and the web. Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

At work<\/strong><\/p>\n

Globalize your business and customer interactions with text and speech translation powered by Translator and Microsoft Speech service, both members of the Azure Cognitive Services family. Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

In the classroom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Create a more inclusive classroom for both students and parents with live captioning and cross-language understanding. Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information on Microsoft Translator please visit microsoft.com\/translator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image: Konark Sun Temple in the state of Orissa near Bhubaneshwar city. Today, we are happy to announce that we have added Odia text translation to Microsoft Translator. Odia is available now, or will be available soon, in the Microsoft Translator\u202fapp, Office,\u202fTranslator for Bing, and through the\u202fAzure Cognitive Services\u202fTranslator for businesses and developers. Odia is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[181,50],"class_list":["post-116715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-microsoft-translator","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}