NEW DELHI: Starting Monday, Google will understand eight additional Indian languages. The search giant has added Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu to its voice search and voice typing (speech to text) capability.Before this, these services were available in Hindi and English among Indian languages. The more voice samples it has, the more accurate it gets. Getting Indian language voice samples from India, he said, meant a lot more street sounds. Machine learning needs to adapt to the local country," said Esch.The additional Indian languages will first be available on Android phones, and will roll out to iOS after.

Source: Times of India August 14, 2017 14:48 UTC