On tuesday, Google announced the expansion of its translation services, which will now comprise of 5 more Indian languages.
The languages to be introduced will be Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu which will allow the largest internet search engine giant Google to reach out to half a million people.
Ashish Venugopal, research scientist at Google, said that, “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.
“In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63,” he wrote in a Google Blog.