Google in one of the most widely-used services on the web. With more than 500 million people around the world use Google to translate words and phrases, the company is getting more ambitious.
The company adds 30 more languages to its suite of web- and phone-based translation apps, bringing up Google's grand total to a whopping 119 total varieties of languages.
And because the added languages are on Google's Cloud Speech API, Google can implement the languages to its array of apps, like Google Translate and its Gboard add-on - allowing not just speech recognition, but also instant translation and voice search for Google's newly learned languages.
After the update, the following languages can convert spoken words into text:
- Amharic (Ethiopia).
- Armenian (Armenia).
- Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani).
- Bengali (Bangladesh, India).
- English (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania).
- Georgian (Georgia).
- Gujarati (India).
- Javanese (Indonesia).
- Kannada (India).
- Khmer (Cambodian).
- Lao (Laos).
- Latvian (Latvia).
- Malayalam (India).
- Marathi (India).
- Nepali (Nepal).
- Sinhala (Sri Lanka).
- Sundanese (Indonesia).
- Swahili (Tanzania, Kenya).
- Tamil (India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia).
- Telugu (India).
- Urdu (Pakistan, India).
Swahili and Amharic are two of the most popular African languages. It has also added Georgian, an ancient language that dates back to the 10th century.
From the Google Search Blog:
And in addition to adding more languages, Google users starting in the U.S. can also search for emojis using their voice.
"You can now say something like ‘winky face emoji’ to express yourself. Or, even ‘Colbert emoji’ to your friends when the occasion calls,” wrote Daan Van Esch, Google’s technical program manager for speech .
