Partnership Aims To Bring Good News For Te Reo MāoriAuckland, New Zealand, 13 September 2022 – Microsoft New Zealand and Aotearoa tech company Straker Translations have today announced a partnership aimed at supporting te reo Māori in our print and online media, so more people can get their daily news in te reo Māori. The platform will combine Straker Translations’ existing translation tools with Microsoft’s own Microsoft Translator platform and AI technology to enable news media to translate whole articles into te reo Māori at scale. Stuff, which reaches 3.4m unique visitors every month and runs the country's largest website, stuff.co.nz, is in discussion with Straker Translations about how a partnership might bring more te reo Māori content to its readers. "This is an important kaupapa and we want to do whatever we can to ensure te reo Māori thrives in modern Aotearoa New Zealand,“ she said. That will dramatically boost inclusion of te reo Māori speakers, and support te reo Māori as a living, vibrant language people can use in their everyday lives.

Source: Stuff September 12, 2022 22:38 UTC