The tech giant added support for nine African languages in total.
Google has expanded its voice dictation feature for Translate to support nine more African languages in Gboard, theEight of the nine new languages are official South African languages, including Ndebele, Xhosa, Northern Sotho, Swati, Sesotho, Venda, Tswana, and Xitsonga.The Gboard keyboard app supports integration on various Android, iOS, and iPadOS apps on smartphones and tablets.
The addition of Sepedi and Tsonga brought Google Translate’s list of South African languages to seven.
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