Technology company, Google, has rolled out speech recognition support for the Nigerian version of the English language.
Daan van Esch, Technical Program Manager, Speech at Google made this known saying that this will make for less typing and more talking.
“Using your voice to dictate a message can be up to three times faster than typing. With this in mind, today we’re bringing voice typing (aka talking to your phone instead of typing) to 30 new languages and locales around the world, covering more than a billion people,” Daan said in a blog post announcing the development.
The newly supported languages and locales are Amharic (Ethiopia), Armenian (Armenia), Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani), Bengali (Bangladesh, India), English (Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania), Georgian (Georgia), Gujarati (India), Javanese (Indonesia), and Kannada (India).
Others are Khmer (Cambodian), Lao (Laos), Latvian (Latvia), Malayalam (India), Marathi (India), Nepali (Nepal), Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Sundanese (Indonesia), Swahili (Tanzania, Kenya), Tamil (India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia), Telugu (India), and Urdu (Pakistan, India).
Google said to incorporate the 30 new language varieties, the firm worked with native speakers to collect speech samples, asking them to read common phrases.
“This process trained our machine learning models to understand the sounds and words of the new languages and to improve their accuracy when exposed to more examples over time,” the company said.
It stated that these new languages are also available starting today in Cloud Speech API and will soon be available across other Google apps and products, including the Translate app.
With this update, TheNewsGuru reports Google’s speech recognition now supports 119 language varieties, in Gboard on Android, Voice Search and more.
How to enable Voice Typing
To enable Voice Typing in your keyboard, install Gboard from the Play Store and pick your language (press the G in the suggestion strip and select the Settings wheel). Then just tap the microphone to start speaking.
How to enable Voice Search
To enable Voice Search, open the Google app and pick your language in the Voice settings menu (tap the top-left menu and go to Settings, then pick Voice and select your language).