Microsoft has announced that it has released Microsoft Dragon Copilot — the healthcare industry’s “first unified voice AI assistant” which also includes translation as a feature (TaaF).

The tool combines Microsoft’s voice recognition and dictation software, Dragon Medical One (DMO), with its existing clinical generative AI co-pilot solution, DAX, to facilitate interactions between clinicians and patients.

DAX has already been implemented by 600,000 clinicians worldwide, automating note-taking and integrating into Epic — a cloud-based electronic health record system built for hospitals. According to Microsoft, DAX has “assisted over 3 million patient conversations across 600 healthcare organizations in the past month alone.”

With the launch of Dragon Copilot, Microsoft now offers multilanguage note creation and multilingual support that can be incorporated directly into a patient’s electronic health record.

In a promotional video of the translation feature, the company stated that “Microsoft Dragon Copilot supports AI-generated notes for encounters in multiple languages. Not only can you use Dragon Copilot with a translator for any language, you can also conduct encounters in Spanish without a translator. It instantly displays a clinical summary in English for use in medical records. And it’s all built on a responsible AI framework and a foundation of trust.”

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To start a translation, clinicians simply need to click a button to “Capture Spanish”, removing the need for an interpreter to facilitate communication between a doctor and patient.

The tool will be released for general availability in the US and Canada in May and is already being used at The Ottawa Hospital in Canada. The company is planning to launch the tool in the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands later this year.

Microsoft’s launch comes just one month after its release of Microsoft Translator Pro — a real-time speech-to-speech translation tool designed for businesses and client-facing encounters.

“Not only can you use Dragon Copilot with a translator for any language, you can also conduct encounters in Spanish without a translator.”

Microsoft now joins a growing list of AI-enabled translation solutions for the life sciences industry, following similar launches from Oracle and Messagepoint last year.