Google has now announced that it is expanding its speech recognition capabilities to support 30 new languages, mostly those in emerging markets in India and Africa. The total number of supported languages are now 119, and the update includes two of Africa's largest languages.
The languages are now available in Cloud Speech API and will soon reach other Google apps like Google Translate and Gboard keyboard. Here is the full list of newly supported languages and locales:
- Amharic (Ethiopia)
- Armenian (Armenia)
- Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)
- Bengali (Bangladesh, India)
- English (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania)
- Georgian (Georgia)
- Gujarati (India)
- Javanese (Indonesia)
- Kannada (India)
- Khmer (Cambodia)
- 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)
- Urdu (Pakistan, India)
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