KUDO AI Expands Language Support in APAC and EMEA with Nine New Translation Languages

(Tuesday, March 17, 2026, New York City, NY) – KUDO is expanding the reach of multilingual communication with the addition of nine new languages to KUDO AI. The platform now supports AI translation for the following languages:

• Armenian
• Assamese
• Icelandic
• Inuktitut
• Kazakh
• Lao
• Macedonian
• Malayalam
• Sinhala

While these languages may be less commonly supported by real-time translation technology, together they represent more than 120 million speakers worldwide across regions including South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Balkans, the Arctic, and Northern Europe.

The expansion reflects growing demand from global organizations seeking to include more employees, partners, and communities in multilingual conversations, especially in regions where language accessibility has historically been limited.

Expanding Access Beyond Major Global Languages

Most AI translation tools focus primarily on the world’s largest languages. But in global organizations, communication challenges often arise in smaller linguistic communities where professional interpreters may be harder to source or where multilingual events require coverage across many languages simultaneously.

For example:

• Malayalam is spoken by over 38 million people in India and across global diaspora communities.
• Sinhala is the primary language of 17 million people in Sri Lanka.
• Kazakh is spoken by over 13 million people across Central Asia.
• Assamese reaches 15 million speakers in northeastern India.
• Icelandic, Inuktitut, Armenian, Lao, and Macedonian each represent important national or regional languages that play a central role in local government, education, and public life.

As organizations increasingly operate across multiple regions, the ability to include these communities in meetings, training sessions, and public engagement initiatives becomes increasingly important.

AI Unlocks Accessibility Where Interpretation Is Scarce

For many of these languages, finding professional interpreters—particularly on short notice or for recurring meetings—can be difficult.

AI-powered translation helps close that gap by making multilingual access faster to deploy and easier to scale, especially for internal meetings, global training sessions, and hybrid events.

By expanding support for languages that are often underrepresented in digital communication tools, KUDO AI helps organizations reach audiences that may previously have been excluded from multilingual discussions.

Supporting Truly Global Communication

KUDO AI provides real-time speech translation and multilingual captions across virtual, hybrid, and in-person environments, integrating directly with platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

The addition of Armenian, Assamese, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Kazakh, Lao, Macedonian, Malayalam, and Sinhala reflects KUDO’s ongoing commitment to making multilingual communication infrastructure accessible to organizations everywhere—not just in the world’s most widely spoken languages.

As demand for inclusive global communication continues to grow, KUDO will keep expanding its language capabilities to help organizations connect with more people, in more places, and in more languages.