LANGUAGE SUPPORT

Google personalises voice search for regional language users

FILES-US-IT-LIFESTYLE-GOOGLE-ADVERTISING Users can use voice input in their local language to search without the need of typing | AFP (File photo)

Google has announced the launch of voice search in eight Indian languages along with Hindi. The new languages include Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. Speakers of these languages will be able to dictate queries.

The update essentially means that users can now use voice input in their local language to search for what they are looking for without the need of typing on a tiny keyboard, making user experience that much faster and easier. In order to perform a voice-based search, users will need to set their language in the voice settings menu in Google app.

The new language support will also enhance voice typing on Gboard, helping users to respond to emails on the go and send texts within messaging apps. To enable voice typing, users can install Gboard from the Play Store and choose their language from the Settings. Then all it takes is tapping the microphone to start speaking.

While incorporating these new languages, Google has worked with native speakers to collect speech samples, asking them to read common phrases. This process not only helped train Google’s machine learning models to understand the sounds and words of the new languages, but also improved the accuracy when the system encountered more examples over time.

Voice input for each of these languages is expected to get better over time, as more and more native speakers use the product. Google’s speech recognition now supports 119 language varieties in Gboard on Android, Voice Search and more.

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