Microsoft launches Outlook Lite with vernacular features, SMS support

Holding in thoughts Indian customers, tech main Microsoft has launched Outlook Lite with vernacular options resembling translation, voice typing, and transliteration. These options will let customers compose and browse emails of their most well-liked regional language. In different phrases, Outlook Lite brings all of the essential options of Microsoft Outlook in a smaller-sized app with quick efficiency for light-weight units on any community. 

Outlook Lite is inclusive and conscious of the varied linguistic wants of Indian customers with options resembling voice typing, transliteration, and studying emails in regional languages, to make it simpler for customers to compose and browse emails of their most well-liked language. 

“Whether or not customers wish to dictate an e-mail in Hindi, kind an e-mail in Tamil, and have it mechanically transformed to English, or learn an e-mail in Gujarati, Outlook Lite helps them just do that. At present supporting 5 Indian languages, together with Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, it is going to quickly increase to extra. Extra languages and dialects can even be added in future to proceed catering to the linguistic range of India,” the corporate mentioned in a launch. 

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Outlook Lite supplies a unified and sensible inbox that organizes messages by classes, resembling transactions, promotions and private. Customers can simply change between completely different classes and look at related messages in a single place. It additionally reminds them of essential appointments, journey bookings, invoice funds, and gasoline reserving reminders which often get misplaced in data overload.

Outlook Lite can even quickly help language translation for SMS, so customers can learn messages of their most well-liked language, or change between languages with a single faucet. That is particularly helpful for customers who obtain messages in a number of languages or who wish to talk with individuals from completely different areas.  By integrating and simplifying SMS and e-mail messaging, Outlook Lite goals to supply customers with a extra handy and personalised strategy to keep knowledgeable and get issues performed.