Google Translate Expands Indic Web Language Support To Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada and Tamil Voices

Google Translate welcomed Indic web users via its Google Blog today as it expanded services in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. With these five additions, Google Translate now supports 63 languages. The translation team highlighted some reasons why a fluent translation are harder with English due to differences in sentence ordering, Indian languages use subject object verb ordering compared to subject verb object ordering.

500 Million Speakers

More than 500 million people speak Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu in India and Bangladesh alone, stated Google. Bengali has 230 million speakers in Bangladesh and India. The rest predominantly in India have millions of speakers Telugu with 70 million,  Tamil with 66 million, Gujarati with 46 million and Kannada with 35 million speakers according to WolframAlpha.

Google says to expect translations from these new languages to be less fluent compared to more mature languages like Chinese or Spanish which have more web material to power Google’s statistical machine translation. Despite the limitations the free translation will help people better access the multilingual Internet. To use the search feature you will need to write using the fonts from each languages, you can download free fonts here from University of Chicago’s resource page. Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.

How To Say Welcome In Tamil

The Tamil script above means "welcome" and if you click on the image it takes you to Google Translate for Tamil. Listen to Tamil voices below.

How To Say Welcome In Telugu

The Telugu script above means "welcome" and if you click on the image it takes you to Google Translate for Tamil. Listen to Telugu voices below.

How To Say Welcome In Kannada

The Kannada script above means "welcome" and if you click on the image it takes you to Google Translate for Kannada.

How To Say Welcome In Bengali

The Bengali script above means "welcome" and if you click on the image it takes you to Google Translate for Bengali. Listen to Bengali voices below.

How To Say Welcome In Gujarati

The Gujarati script above means "welcome" and if you click on the image it takes you to Google Translate for Gujarati. Listen to Gujarati voices below.

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