Google Still Working on Arabic for Android Phone
Google learns 16 more languages for all you Android phone users but is still working on Arabic, though Google Translate in Arabic is available for web users.
If you are using an Android phone, Google has just equipped you with the knowledge of additional languages including Bulgarian, Swedish and Icelandic. However Arabic is yet to get on to the list.
Among the new languages are Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish.
Android users can now use their phones to translate texts from any of these languages to the list of already existing languages such as Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Android users can also use their camera to record text, which the app recognises and translates for you.
So you don’t need to type unfamiliar scripts anymore. The feature is yet to be made available on the iOS.
Google also added five new languages which it can translate online taking the total to 70 languages.
On Wednesday (May 8) Google announced that it was adding five additional languages spoken by almost 183 million people worldwide.
However, Google says it is still in the process of learning these languages except for Bosnian in which it has gained some expertise already.
The other languages include Cebuano spoken in the Philippines, predominantly in the middle (Visayas) and southern (Mindanao) regions of the nation, Hmong language spoken in China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, Javanese in Indonesia and the Indian language of Marathi which has 73 million native speakers.
Google Translate already supports several other Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
“With the exception of Bosnian, these new languages are “alpha,” meaning while the quality isn’t perfect, we will continue to test and improve them over time,” Google said in its statement.
Joseph George
Emirates 24/7