Support for the African languages will be made available on Voice Search, talk-to-type on Gboard, and dictation on Translate.
The languages will be supported on Voice Search, talk-to-type on Gboard, and dictation on Translate.Localisation is always our first question when any technology company announces a new solution or service, but catering to every segment in a region can be quite difficult. In the case of Google it has been focusing heavily on supporting local languages of late, which will of course go a long way in accelerating the uptake of any new offerings it brings to market.
Google pointed out that this was only made possible thanks to a partnership with a research team based in Accra, Ghana. “Google already supports typing input with custom keyboards in Gboard for around 200 African languages and varieties, with automatic translation with Translate for over 60 languages spoken in Africa,” it highlighted.
“Along with the 13 African languages which already enjoy talk-to-text support on Gboard and Voice Search, Google is excited to extend voice input to 12 more languages on these platforms. Google is also extending voice input to 13 more African languages on Google Translate – along with the 9 already supported,” it added in a release shared with Hypertext.As for how it has able to add such a large number of languages of late, Google points to the power of AI.
“Multilingual speech recognition models are trained on data from multiple languages, and then are able to transcribe speech into text in any of those languages,” it continued.Editor of Hypertext. Covers smartphones, IoT, 5G, cloud computing and a few things in between. Also a keen photographer and dabbles in console games when not taking the hatchet to stories.Hypertext is one of South Africa’s leading technology news and reviews sites.
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