WASHINGTON: Internet search engine giant Google announced Tuesday the expansion of its translation to include five Indian languages - Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu - and so increase the range to a potential half million inhabitants.
"From now on it the linguistic diversity of the Indian subcontinent with Google Translate now supports five new experimental Alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu," said Ashish Venugopal, a researcher at Google.
"In India and Bangladesh alone, over 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009 we have a total of 11 alpha-language launch, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate into 63," he wrote in a Google Blog .
Venugopal said that one can expect that new translations for language alpha less liquid and involve many more words than non-translated some of the more mature language - like Spanish or Chinese - that much more of the web content that powers the statistical machine translation approach.
"Despite these challenges, we alpha release language when we think people have better access to multilingual Internet search help If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our language, please correct us. We enjoy learning from our errors, and your feedback helps us new language graduate alpha status, "said Google researcher.
"If these languages have their own unique scripts we have transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards run," he said and hoped that the launch of this new alpha language will provide a better understanding of the Indian help (Indo-Aryan language ) website and encourage the publication of new content in Indian languages, Google five alpha-step closer to a web without language barriers.
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