{"id":4853,"date":"2023-02-03T22:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gospeedhub.com\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2023-02-03T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:05:04","slug":"google-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospeedhub.com\/blogs\/google-translate\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate Offline Support Adds 9 More African Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The multilingual neural machine translation service, Google Translate, has expanded its offline translation language content by adding 9 African languages and 25 non-African languages to its App on iOS and Android.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Google Translate has covered 12 African languages in its offline translation tool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, Swahili and Afrikaans were added to the Google Translate offline translation tool; now, at the dawn of 2023, major Nigerian languages&nbsp;<strong>(Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba)&nbsp;<\/strong>have just been added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, major languages spoken by Southern African like&nbsp;<strong>Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu and Shona,<\/strong>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<strong>Kinyarwanda<\/strong>&nbsp;commonly spoken by some Eastern African countries like Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. The&nbsp;<strong>Chichewa&nbsp;<\/strong>spoken by parts of East, Central and Southern Africa, which covers Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe lingual sphere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the expansion of Google\u2019s offline lingual capacity, it plans to reach a larger audience across Africa. According to the tech company, the offline feature enables users to&nbsp;<em>\u201cdownload the languages of interest and translate text when an internet connection is unavailable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new languages would expand the usage of the translation tool, creating a sense of acceptance and global recognition for the African language as it also boosts the inclusion of lingual and cultural diversity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement by Ofer Tirosh, a language and machine translation expert,\u00a0<em>\u201cGlobalisation is key in order to obtain business success\u2026translation serves to eliminate language barriers that limited globalisation.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Moreover, he added that the inclusion of African languages in offline translation features makes the existing online translation feature more valuable for African languages.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, the Google keyboard (Gboard) is designed to support up to 200 African languages with artificial intelligence to personalise commands and accents of different languages.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The language barrier is eroding as Google Translate helps integrate African languages into its technological upgrades. While the language-translation tool is an innovative feature, will there ever be a future technology that would interpret spoken language to other languages over cell phones?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Join the conversation; follow us on&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gospeedhub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gospeedhub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gospeedhub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;at GoSpeedHub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Photo By\u00a0Google Translate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The multilingual neural machine translation service, Google Translate, has expanded its offline translation language content by adding 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_1331110278889566212_1331110278889566212":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,9],"tags":[1444,199,46,1448,952,349,47,563,562,1447,1446,1449,1107,1445],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","category-online-platforms","category-software","tag-africanlanguages","tag-google","tag-google-phone","tag-googleafrica","tag-googlechrome","tag-googlemaps","tag-googlepixel","tag-googlesmartwatch","tag-googletranslate","tag-hausa","tag-igbo","tag-nigerianlanguages","tag-southafrica","tag-yoruba","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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