Google[1] on Tuesday announced that the company is introducing improved support for Indian languages in its products. After introducing support for machine-learning based translation for Hindi last month[2], the search giant has now extended its neural machine translation to 9 more Indian languages. The company has also extended its new translation technique's support to Chrome[3] browser's built-in auto-translate functionality. Additionally, it has announced that its Gboard[4] Keyboard app will now support all 22 scheduled Indian languages. Finally, Google Search[5] results will now include results from Hindi dictionary as well.
Coming first to the neural machine translation[6] support, Google has announced that Google Translate[7] will now use this improved technique to translate to and from Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, and Kannada. "Neural translation offers a huge improvement over the old phrase-based system, translating full sentences at a time, instead of pieces of a sentence. This change improves the quality of the translation in a single jump than seen in the last ten years combined," the company said in a press release.
Google has now extended the Neural Machine translation to Chrome browser's built-in auto-translate functionality as well in order to make full-page translations more accurate and easier to read. This means that users will be able to browse through websites with content translated from foreign languages to the aforementioned 9 languages. As the new technique has been claimed to be far superior to earlier one, the change is likely to make Web more user-friendly for people in India.
The search giant has extended the neural machine auto-translation to Google Maps[8] as well and users will now...