Google translate to support five Indian languages

BANGALORE, INDIA: Here is good news for all those users who find it difficult to translate few of Indian regional languages.

Internet search engine giant Google on Tuesday announced the expansion of its translation services to include five more Indian languages.

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"Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu," said Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist at Google in a blog post.

Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems.

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"Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering," adds Venugopal.

He further added, one can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages - like Spanish or Chinese - which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach.

Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web, he added.

Google also requested its users to notify the company for any incorrect or missing translations, which they find in any of the languages.

Users need to install the respective fonts to experience the new alpha language translations.

Google Translator Toolkit

Google also announced support for translators, who can take advantage of machine translated output using Google Translator Toolkit.

Google Translator Toolkit helps translators translate better and more quickly through one shared, innovative translation technology.