Google, which claims to currently translate over 100 billion words every day, has recently rolled out an update for its Google Translate app to make it more conversational. Google says that: In the past, our translation systems have generally been better at making sense of government and business documents than in helping people casually communicate. But that’s all changing thanks to people like you and a recent update we rolled out. So, the next time you translate informal speech in Google Translate, you might just find a better translation. This, Google says, has been possible because of the efforts of the Translate Community, who have volunteered time to help with cross-language communication. Members can choose to either see a phrase and translate it on their own or correct current translations already in the system. Based on these translations, Google incorporates corrections into the system and learn the nuances of the language. From the Indic language perspective this will be a major improvement, because often the literal translation of an English sentence or phrase to an Indian language or vice versa is incorrect and misleading. Google Translate - Indic language initiatives - In December last year, Google Translate had added support for Malayalam as a part of its update along with nine other languages. Google Translate currently supports ten Indian languages, including Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Urdu. Overall, the platform now supports translations in 90 languages from around the world. - Google Translate had released an updated version of its Android…
