Georgian Language Added to Google Speech App

Google announced yesterday that with the recent update to the Google’s speech recognition, the Georgian language has been added to voice typing, along with 30 other newly added languages from around the world, covering more than a billion people. As Daan van Esch, Technical Program Manager, states, with this update, Google’s speech recognition supports 119 language varieties in Gboard on Android. 

He said that speech recognition will support ancient languages such as Georgian, alongside adding Swahili and Amharic, and many Indian languages “on our quest to make the Internet more inclusive” Daan van Esch notes. 

“To incorporate 30 new language varieties, we worked with native speakers to collect speech samples, asking them to read common phrases. This process trained our machine learning models to understand the sounds and words of the new languages and to improve their accuracy when exposed to more examples over time.” He says. 

The new languages added are now also available in Cloud Speech API and will soon be available with the other Google apps and products, with the Translate app included.

By Nino Gugunishvili