Live
- First Impressions and Unboxing of the MacBook Pro M4: A Powerhouse for Professionals and Creators
- China Gears Up for Potential Trade War Amid Trump’s Tariff Threats
- Small Farmers Gain Less by Selling to Supermarkets: Study Reveals
- Why Despite the Controversy, America Is Anticipating the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Fight
- Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma Shine: Record-Breaking Feats in 4th T20I Against South Africa
- India Urges $1.3 Trillion Annual Climate Support for Developing Nations
- Bad air: 106 shuttle buses, 60 extra Metro trips planned to make Delhiites give up cars
- WHO reports declining monkeypox cases in Congo
- CM Attends Kotideepotsavam on Kartika Purnima
- PKL Season 11: Raiding trio of Devank, Ayan, Sandeep help Patna Pirates rout Bengal Warriorz
Google bolsters support for more languages
Google has expanded support for nine more Indian languages, including Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada, across various products to ensure more people can access the Internet in a language of their choice.
Neural Machine Translation launched
​New Delhi: Google has expanded support for nine more Indian languages, including Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada, across various products to ensure more people can access the Internet in a language of their choice.
Powered by ‘neural machine translation’, users will be able to translate between English and nine widely-used Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada.
The new technology translates full sentences instead of doing it in pieces and, therefore, offers better quality translation. The new translation capability will be available for Google Search and Maps — both on mobile and desktop. “India today has 234 million Indian language users who are online, compared to 175 million English web users.
We expect another 300 million Indian language users to come online in the next four years,” Google vice-president India and South-East Asia Rajan Anandan told presspersons here.
It is, therefore, important that the language barrier be brought down to ensure people get more from using the Internet, he added.
According to him, availability of content in local languages as well as access play a crucial role in getting more people to the Internet.
Google, in partnership with KPMG India, also released a report titled ‘Indian Languages — Defining India’s Internet’. The report stated that Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi speaking users have the highest adoption of online services.
Users are consuming a variety of services, including messaging, digital entertainment, social media, online news, digital payments, e-commerce and online government services. About 60 per cent respondents said there is limited language content and support, while 70 per cent faced challenges in using English keyboards.
The report forecasts that by 2021, Indian language-speaking users will touch 536 million, growing at a CAGR of 18 per cent. The number of English-speaking Internet users is expected to grow at a mere 3 per cent to touch 199 million during the same time. Also, 35 per cent of digital ads will be in local languages, from the current 5 per cent.
