iMocha and Microsoft collaborate to Simplify Assessment of Business Language Skills with AI-EnglishPro

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iMocha, the largest skills intelligence and assessment platform, has partnered with Microsoft to launch the AI-EnglishPro tool, which revolutionizes the assessment of business English proficiency. Using Microsoft Azure, the product aims to reduce hiring time by providing quantitative and qualitative analysis of communication skills. The English proficiency assessment market is currently valued at USD 1,922.5 million and projected to reach USD 6,166 million in ten years. AI-EnglishPro offers accurate evaluations, benchmarks for training, and integrated assessments to eliminate bias in the process.

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• Launch of AI-EnglishPro to enhance English proficiency assessments.
• AI-EnglishPro offers quantitative and qualitative evaluations on communication skills.
• The English proficiency assessment market expected to grow significantly.

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The collaborative AI stack developed by iMocha using Microsoft Azure is transforming assessment for customer-facing roles

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- iMocha, the world's largest skills intelligence & assessment platform, in collaboration with Microsoft announced the launch of its advanced AI-EnglishPro. Powered by the Microsoft Azure Cloud and Azure AI, this new product will transform how enterprises assess business English proficiency and competency for different job roles, significantly reducing hiring time.

Being the business language of the world, English is written and spoken by over 2 billion people worldwide. It's prominence and presence all over the world is the reason why the current market for English proficiency assessment stands at USD 1922.5 Million. Further, as the need for English proficiency increases due to multiple factors like accelerating internet usage and rising adoption of 'the business language', this market is set to reach USD 6166 million in a decade. In light of these growing needs, an assessment tool is going to be imperative to objectively measure the skills.

iMocha's AI-EnglishPro helps organizations to analyse a candidate's communication skills on quantitative and qualitative parameters such as Vocabulary, Oral fluency, Grammar, and Readability and offers CEFR validation for these parameters. The assessments also help create benchmarks for developing training plans as per the existing skill levels. Powered by Microsoft Azure's AI and NLP models, iMocha AI-EnglishPro offers unmatched accuracy in evaluating Business English communication skills.

In conventional manual assessments, there is always an element of bias along with the challenges related to scaling. iMocha's AI-EnglishPro has transformed the assessment process where language proficiency is crucial, by integrating tech and non-tech assessments into a single assessment. 

"Enterprises across different verticals are able to do a holistic assessment of a person's English listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills using iMocha's AI-EnglishPro," said Sujit Karpe, CTO & Co-founder, iMocha. "We are thrilled about our partnership with Microsoft. Using Azure Cognitive Service for Speech, Azure Cognitive Service for Language, Azure Cognitive Service for Vision, we were able to leverage advanced AI & ML models to improve the accuracy of the assessments and accelerate time to deploy."

About iMocha (https://www.imocha.io/)

iMocha is a skills intelligence and assessment platform that enables talent leaders to make smarter talent decisions. 500+ organizations use the platform's skills-first insights to acquire job-fit talent faster and to measure the ROI from their talent development and learning initiatives. It empowers talent teams with the largest skill library with 2500+ assessments, an asynchronous interview platform, AI-LogicBox (AI-based pseudo-coding simulator), AI-EnglishPro (AI-powered language analyzer), skill benchmarking, upskilling dashboard, talent analytics, proctoring, fraud detection, and custom assessment consulting, etc.

About Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) (@microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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FAQ

What is AI-EnglishPro and how does it relate to Microsoft?

AI-EnglishPro is an assessment tool developed by iMocha in collaboration with Microsoft that evaluates business English proficiency using Azure's AI capabilities.

What is the current market size for English proficiency assessment?

The current market for English proficiency assessment is valued at USD 1,922.5 million.

What are the expected growth projections for the English proficiency assessment market?

The market is projected to reach USD 6,166 million in ten years.

How does AI-EnglishPro improve hiring processes?

AI-EnglishPro reduces hiring time by providing objective assessments of candidates' English communication skills.

What features does AI-EnglishPro offer for assessments?

It evaluates vocabulary, oral fluency, grammar, and readability while offering CEFR validation and benchmarks for training plans.