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The feature will roll out in five Indian languages first: Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu and Marathi. Further, Google is extending the ability to toggle for Search results between English and regional languages to four more Indian languages. These are Tamil, Telugu, Bangla and Marathi. The feature was originally launched four years back.
Further, the Google Maps app will now support Indian languages. Nine Indian languages will be supported in the Maps app. Users will be able to to the language settings in the app and search for places, get directions in their preferred language.
Google is also adding the ability to get help with homework help in Hindi, which is a feature available with the Google Lens. According to the company, India is the number one market for the usage of Google Lens.
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On Thursday, Google has unveiled a machine learning tool for Indian languages to help researchers, students, and startups keen on building local language technologies with a common framework across several languages in the country.
Called Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages (MuRIL), the model aims to address concerns around Indian language understanding of computer systems, including all of its complexities like transliteration, spelling variations, mixed languages and other specific use cases that emerge in the Indian context. It also supports transliterated text such as writing Hindi using Roman script.
MuRIL was developed at Google s India research unit and currently supports 16 local languages and English, which the company says is the highest coverage for Indian languages among other publicly available machine learning models of its kind.
Google announces a range of features to help break down language barriers in India
Google announces a range of features to help break down language barriers in India
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Google today announced a range of features that will help deliver an even richer language experience to millions across India. The team at Google Research India has announced a new machine learning model to help better understand human language. It is known as MuRIL (Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages).
MuRIL provides support for transliterated text such as when writing Hindi using Roman script, which was something missing from previous models of its kind.
Google expands languages push to serve non-English speakers in India
There are more than 600 million internet users in India, but only a fraction of this population is fluent in English. Most online services and much of the content on the web currently, however, are available exclusively in English.
This language barrier continues to contribute to a digital divide in the world’s second-largest internet market that has limited hundreds of millions of users’ rendition of the world wide web to a select few websites and services.
So it comes as no surprise that American tech giants, which are counting on emerging markets such as India to continue their growth, are increasingly attempting to make the web and their services accessible to more people.