Google has expanded 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 subcontinent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu," said Ashish Venugopal, research scientist at Google.
Venugopal said, "One can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of the more mature languages - like Spanish or Chinese, which have much more of the web content that powers its statistical machine translation approach."
"In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we have 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.
"Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status," the Google research scientist said.
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