Google India has also unwrapped the new Hindi dictionary in Google Search.
Google India has announced the launch of new line of products with advanced machine learning for Indian languages. The latest move of the search engine giants is aimed at making the web easier for more than a billion people who are yet to access it.
According to Google, its latest Neutrals Machine Translation has been loaded with nine Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
Rajan Anandan, Vice President, India and South East Asia, Google said, “Google wants to extend the internet for every Indian. We have identified gaps that bar Indians from accessing the internet. There are 400 million internet users in India and the number is expected to reach 600 million by 2020.”
According to Anandan, more than 300 million Indians use their smartphones to connect to the Internet and the numbers are growing day by day. He also spoke about the initiative taken by Google in fueling internet expansion in India such as RailTel, which offers high-speed internet at selected Indian railway stations.
The neutral machine translation has already been seamlessly integrated with Google Chrome browser and Google Maps, making translation much more easy and accurate.
The data released by Google suggest that its machine translation system receives more than one billion requests daily out of which more than 95 percent translation requests comes from users outside the US.
“Of over 500 million people who use Google Translate, most of the users are in India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Thailand,” it said.
Google boasts that it has fine-tuned the machine translation system to an extent that it can process a page in less than 0.2 seconds compared to the 10 seconds, which was the time taken two months back.
The company announced that it has launched “Gboard”, its latest keyboard with speed and reliability, with added features like glide typing, voice typing, and more—plus Google Search built in. The users don’t have to switch apps as they can now search and share, write using Gboard.
Google India has also unwrapped the new Hindi dictionary in Google Search – a collaboration with Google and Oxford University Press.
It shared findings from a new report by Google and KPMG India, titled “Indian Languages-Defining India’s Internet”.
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