When the entire internet is in your language, the possibilities are endless.
Google has long held a special focus on the technology needs of India, and is making a big step toward addressing the entire subcontinent with today`s announcements of improved language support across multiple products. In an attempt to make its products useful for nearly all of the estimated 400 million internet users in India, Google is expanding and improving its automatic translation, improving translations in Chrome, adding common Indian languages to Gboard and adding a Hindi dictionary to Google Search.
The backbone of these changes is the launch of what Google calls `Neural Machine Translation.` In general, this is a next-gen translation system that lets Google Translate better understand whole sentences rather than snippets or phrases, which is important when translating between English and nine widely used Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and...
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