Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Translate more Indic languages with the updated Google Translate for iPhone app

(Cross posted on the Google Translate Blog)

Back in June, we launched five new experimental Indic languages for Google Translate on the desktop and mobile webapp. Today, we’ve updated the Google Translate for iPhone app to add these new alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. This brings the total number of languages supported by the app to 63 languages.


The updated app supports the ability to view dictionary results for single words and to display romanizations for these new Indic languages. So even if you can’t read the script the words are written in, you can still take a shot at reading the translation.

Since these are still experimental alpha languages, you can expect translations be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more parallel data to power our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, we believe users will find these new languages helpful and we’re excited to be making them available through the Translate app.

Updates will appear in the App Store in supported countries throughout today. Google Translate for iPhone now supports text translation among 63 languages, voice input in 17 of those languages, and text-to-speech in 24 of them. Get the latest version of Google Translate for iPhone app from the App Store and start breaking down language barriers wherever you are!

Posted by
Jeff Chin, Product Manager, Google Translate
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14 comments:

  1. Jayarama NettarNovember 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM

    It is wonderful that Google has been rolling out translation for Indic languages. But the quality of the translation is very very poor at the moment and improving the quality should be on higher priority than supporting more languages.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM

    What about the Android version ?

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    I would like to see an android version soon...

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