Thursday, June 23, 2011

TECH WORLD: Google translation service adds 5 more Indian languages!


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PTI / The Hindu / WASHINGTON, June 22, 2011.

Google hopes that the launch of these new alpha languages will help one better understand the Indic (Indo—Aryan languages) web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages.
Google hopes that the launch of these new alpha languages will help one better understand the Indic (Indo—Aryan languages) web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages - AP.

Internet search engine giant Google on Tuesday announced the expansion of its translation services to include five more Indian languages — Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu — thus increasing its reach to a potential half a million population.
“Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub—continent with Google translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu,” said Ashish Venugopal, research scientist at Google.
“In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63,” he wrote in a Google Blog.

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