Google has added support for 30 more language variants to its Cloud Speech API, with a focus on emerging markets in Africa and India.<\/p>\n
It has added support for Swahili and\u00a0Amharic, as well as English variants for\u00a0Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.<\/p>\n
TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong> that\u00a0people in those regions will be able to type and search the web by voice using Gboard, Google’s keyboard app.<\/p>\n Its Cloud Speech API has also gained several new features, including timestamps for every word in a transcript and support for files up to three hours long.<\/p>\n The latest improvements follow Google adding Zulu and Xhosa<\/strong><\/a> to the languages it translates using an artificial neural network.<\/p>\n Previous translations were based on programming an understanding of the grammar of a language into the translator.<\/p>\n The switch to neural translation for Zulu and Xhosa means that\u00a0translations will be closer to spoken language, said Google.<\/p>\n Google has added support for 30 more language variants to its Cloud Speech API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,39394,4206],"class_list":["post-224452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-speech-recognition","tag-voice-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224474,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224452\/revisions\/224474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Password power rankings of Netflix, Amazon, and Google<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"