Google speech recognition now supports Armenian

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google speech recognition can now support the Armenian language, the company said in a blog post on Monday, August 30.

After bringing voice typing (aka c instead of typing) to 30 languages and locales around the world, Google’s speech recognition now supports 119 language varieties, in Gboard on Android, Voice Search and more.

The full list of newly supported languages and locales includes Amharic (Ethiopia), Armenian (Armenia), Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani), Bengali (Bangladesh, India), English (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania), Georgian (Georgia), Gujarati (India), Javanese (Indonesia), Kannada (India), Khmer (Cambodian), Lao (Laos), Latvian (Latvia), Malayalam (India), Marathi (India), Nepali (Nepal), Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Sundanese (Indonesia), Swahili (Tanzania, Kenya), Tamil (India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia), Telugu (India), Urdu (Pakistan, India).

"To incorporate 30 new language varieties, we worked with native speakers to collect speech samples, asking them to read common phrases," Google said.

"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."