Google Translate has added South African languages Ndebele, Swati, Tswana, and Venda

Phone app screen showing a line in English saying what is your name? Below it is the translation into Ndebele saying ungubani ibizo lakho? At the bottom are two buttons, one labelled English and the other Ndebele.

Google Translate can come in handy when you’re travelling or communicating with someone who speaks another language, and thanks to a new update, you can now connect with some 614 million more people. Google is adding 110 new languages to its Translate tool using its AI PaLM 2 large language model (LLM), which brings the total of supported languages to nearly 250. This follows the 24 languages added in 2022, including Indigenous languages of the Americas as well as those spoken across Africa and central Asia.

The Google Translate app is available in the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. It can translate text you paste in, as well as text appearing in photos. It can also translate voice input as well as handwritten characters.

Not only does this help travellers visiting areas where these languages are spoken, but more important, is it can assist these speakers (some of whom do not understand English) to now be able to translate English webpages or other English text into their languages.

See https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-translate-adds-110-new-languages

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