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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Session on IndiaAI: Large Language models – Dr. Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Key insights from the Large Language Models session at the Global India AI Summit, featuring Dr. Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft in discussion with CEO BHASHINI, Amitabh Nag.
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Karya is creating ethical AI datasets and lifting rural Indians from poverty
Karya, a social impact organization, is employing rural Indians at 20x the minimum wage to build ethical datasets for low-resourced languages in India, verified with Azure OpenAI Service. At the same time, the material they’re…
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Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research @UNESCO LT4ALL
Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Labs India, speaking on Evaluating Speech Data and Technology for Indian Languages Language Technologies for All: Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide (Day 2 – Afternoon session) **Applying language…
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Kalika Bali: The giant leaps in language technology — and who’s left behind | TED
Thousands of languages thrive across the globe, yet modern speech technology — with all of its benefits — supports just over a hundred. Computational linguist Kalika Bali dreams of a day when technology acts as…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of September 9, 2024
Investigating vulnerabilities in LLMs; A novel total-duration-aware (TDA) duration model for text-to-speech (TTS); Generative expert metric system through iterative prompt priming; Integrity protection in 5G fronthaul networks:
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Auto-Tuning of Copilot Prompts
AI-agent-based tool for tuning and optimizing system prompts, and particularly those of Microsoft Copilot offerings. It is used to replace manual adaptation of prompts — requiring extensive human labor — in scenarios such as when…