Google's camera now interprets Bengali

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Bangla Tribune Desk
Published : 11:44, Jul 12, 2019 | Updated : 11:46, Jul 12, 2019

A Google sign is seen during the WAIC (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) in Shanghai, China, September 17, 2018. REUTERSGoogle is rolling out a significant update to the camera feature on its Translate app. The new version of the app adds support for 60 new languages including Bengali, reports The Verge.

This initiative will make the translated text less jumpy on users’ screens; and updates the underlying translation models, in some cases reducing errors in the final translations by as much as 85 percent, the report added.

Key to the update is the integration of Google’s AI translation methods, known as neural machine translation (NMT). These models have been incorporated into Google Lens and the web version of Translate, but they are now supporting instant camera translation, too.

New languages also supported in the update include: Afrikaans, Arabic, Estonian, Greek, Hindi, Igbo, Javanese, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Samoan, Sesotho, Slovenian, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.

Google's translate supports 88 languages in total.

The updated version of the app will also automatically detect what language it’s looking at, which is handy while the user is traveling in a region where multiple languages are common.

Google says the update will be available in the next few weeks.

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