Google said in its blog post that its Artificial Intelligence (AI) based personal voice assistant Google Assistant will be available in 30 languages by end of this year, including Hindi, reaching almost 95 percent of all Android devices globally. The search giant added that it is making the "Assistant multilingual" which means that Assistant will be able to understand you in multiple languages fluently. For instance, if you prefer to speak German at work, but French at home, your Assistant will be able to interact with you in both. The multilingual feature will first be available in English, French and German, with support for more languages coming over time. Google will incorporate a new multilingual mode on Assistant as well, allowing families that speak two or more languages to converse with it naturally. Why is Hindi important? Adding Hindi in its Assitance is essential for Google, as India has about 234 million Indian language users who are online (compared to 175 million English web users) and it is expected that another 300 million Indian language users will come online in the next three years, Google had shared this data while announcing that it is adding Tamil language content in its targeted advertising platform Google AdWords and its monetisation platform Google AdSense. Note that, Google has been focusing on its Next Billion Users team, and it is important for the company to add more Indic language capabilities, as the new Internet users in India predominantly interact with Indian language content. Google has been focusing on India for a…
