In recent weeks, we’ve added quite a lot of latest ways to access and interact with the brand new Bing. Today, we’re announcing yet one more, with powerful updates to SwiftKey that put the Bing AI experience one touch away across any iOS or Android mobile experience that supports a third-party keyboard.
An updated SwiftKey represents a growing set of access points and enhancements to Bing experiences, including latest updates to existing app integrations spanning Bing, Skype, Microsoft Start, and Microsoft Edge apps.
SwiftKey: Chat, Search, and Tone
SwiftKey has been a part of the Microsoft family since 2016. It has hundreds of thousands of users around the globe who find it irresistible for its AI-powered predictive text technology, which makes texting without typos easier, even while you’re in a rush or multi-tasking. Upon download, SwiftKey enables you to set it as your default keyboard on each iOS and Android (the app includes easy-to-follow instructions to enable you to get there in only a number of steps), so you may access it across all of your favorite apps, from email apps to social media and more. SwiftKey enables you to select as much as five languages to integrate into your keyboard.
Bing integrates in three major ways – Search, Chat, and Tone. The update is out there today. When you’ve got the update, you’ll see the Bing icon above the keyboard. From there you may click on the precise feature you’d prefer to use; Chat, Tone, or Search.
With the Chat functionality, you may access the brand new Bing on the go for more detailed queries. It could possibly help if everybody’s cracking jokes within the chat and you would like a clever pun, otherwise you’re latest to the realm and are texting some latest friends to propose a great local restaurant.
With the Tone feature, you may communicate more effectively by utilizing AI to customize your in-progress text to suit any situation. Whether you struggle to be formal in your work emails, otherwise you’re learning a brand new language and need help with the nuances of word alternative, the Tone feature has got you covered, with tones to make your words sound more skilled, casual, polite, or concise enough for a social post.
With the Search functionality, you may quickly search the online out of your keyboard, without switching apps. This can assist whilst you’re talking to a friend and mid-conversation, you ought to look up relevant information just like the weather, restaurants near you, or stock prices.
These latest features in SwiftKey are accessible in all markets where the brand new Bing is out there; anyone can use Search now, while accessing Tone and Chat requires that you just sign into your Microsoft Account that has been approved to access the brand new Bing preview.
Bing App: gender debias in translator functionality
The translator functionality within the mobile Bing app now offers alternative masculine and female translations when translating from English to Spanish, French, or Italian, to advertise inclusivity and to avoid gender bias. This feature allows users to decide on the gendered translation that most closely fits their context and is useful for well-intentioned speakers of all proficiency levels.
Skype: expanded access to the brand new Bing in group chats
As we recently announced, the brand new Bing is in Skype! Since that release we’ve expanded access, so everyone in a bunch can chat with the brand new Bing within the context of that conversation; just one person within the group must have access to the preview!
This implies as a bunch you need to use the brand new Bing from throughout the Skype app similar to you’d use the brand new Bing on desktop; you need to use it to, for instance, settle a debate, help plan a bunch trip, or discover a restaurant for you all to fulfill at in person. To start, seek for ‘Bing in Skype’ in your Skype contacts and add it to a bunch chat, similar to you’ll every other contact!
Similar to on desktop, the brand new Bing chat responses within the Skype app which reference facts are cited with web links to sources, so you may double-check where the knowledge is coming from.
These updates can be found in all markets where the brand new Bing is out there.
Microsoft Start: one other method to experience the brand new Bing
The brand new Bing is now available via the Microsoft Start app too, for users who’ve cleared the waitlist. The Start app keeps you on top of things on the stuff you care about, multi functional app. The personalized news feed, including premium content from tons of of world publishers, keeps you informed and entertained, and the sports scores, weather forecasts, stock prices, shopping deals and more offer you every part you could know to start out your day.
We depend on so many mobile apps in our each day lives whether or not it’s for work, personal needs, and every part in between, so we wish to place AI-powered Bing features at your fingertips in ways in which mean essentially the most to you.
We hope you’re as excited by these updates as we’re and as all the time, we appreciate your feedback!
Divya Kumar – Sr. Director, Search & AI Marketing