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Shona, 14 Other African Languages Added On Google’s Services

5 months agoFri, 01 Nov 2024 10:57:01 GMT

Shona, 14 Other African Languages Added On Google’s Services

Google Speech, in collaboration with the AI Research Center in Accra, Ghana, has launched Voice Search, talk-to-type on Gboard, and voice input on Translate for 15 additional African languages, reported IOL.

The newly supported languages include Chichewa, Hausa, Igbo, Kikuyu, Nigerian Pidgin, Oromo, Rundi, Shona, Somali, Tigrinya, Twi, South Ndebele, Swati, Tswana, and Yoruba.

This expansion increases the total number of African languages with voice support to 25, and the total number of languages globally to 94.

The introduction of voice input in these languages enhances digital accessibility for approximately 300 million people across Africa, allowing them to interact with the web and communicate more naturally using their voices.

In Ethiopia, the addition of Oromo and Tigrinya enables over 85 million people—nearly 70% of the population—to use voice typing, searching, and translating on Google.

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Kenya’s Kikuyu language now joins Swahili in Gboard and Voice Search, expanding language options for users.

Chichewa for Malawi and Shona for Zimbabwe are now supported, benefiting around 65% of Malawi’s population and approximately 12 million Shona speakers.

Voice input for Tswana, South Ndebele, and Swati has been added, enhancing connectivity for communities in Botswana, South Africa, and Eswatini.

In West Africa, Twi, along with four major languages from Nigeria—Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin—has been integrated, serving an estimated 129 million speakers in Nigeria.

This expansion reflects Google’s commitment to developing technology that increases access for Africans, supported by its Product Development Center in Nairobi and its AI Research Center in Accra.

Alex Okosi, Managing Director of Google Africa, said the new technology will benefit over 300 million people across the continent by allowing voice interaction with the web.

He said this is part of Google’s efforts to develop technology for Africans and the world.

Matt Brittin, Google’s President for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, asserted that the upcoming decade will be “Africa’s digital decade,” with more than half the population accessing the Internet for the first time.

Brittin said Extending Voice Search, voice typing on Gboard, and voice input on Translate to 300 million Africans is a significant milestone in Google’s mission to organize and make information universally accessible and useful

African languages that were already on Voice Search and Gboard talk-to-type include Amharic, Afrikaans, Kinyarwanda, Sepedi, Sesotho, South Ndebele, Swahili, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu.

African languages with voice input already available on Translate include Afrikaans, Amharic, Kinyarwanda, Sepedi, Sesotho, Swahili, Tsonga, Xhosa, and Zulu.

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16 Comments

citizen · 4 months ago

Don't forget other fascinating issues to do with totems.The Shona totems are linked to ****ual prowess of the men.Madyirapazhe - Gumbo.From a layman's point of view gumbo represents the leg.No! It's not the actual gumbo but something to do with the man's manhood.U know what these Shona men do?They use maguchu from different tree species as aphrodisiacs to prove to the women that they are good at it.

Anonymous · 4 months ago

Shona are crooks and the most dishonest people I have ever met. You trust a Shona at your own peril. The lack Ubuntu values. Cheating, dishonesty is what makes Shona people some of the most corrupt people in Africa. Of the ri****, only less than 0. 1 percent are decent bust iness people. The rest are corrupt thieves. Lying, cheating and corruption are praised in Shona culture as being clever. They call it kungwara. Those who don't do it are called ****, or kupusa. SHONA culture does not believe in merit. That is why nepotism is rife among them. They can appoint even a Monkey to a very senior position, as long as it's a mwanawekumusha or relative. That is why Zimbabwe is in ruins today.

Meda Online · 3 months ago

Negative ethnicity will not solve our problems as a country

Mhanduwe · 5 months ago

Taura zvako iwe wakafunda iwe CH KA NDA MA ZO KO . ndokuty standard shona zvese zviripo ipapo

Makhobolondo · 5 months ago

Shona is complex... Which dialect have they included on Google? Shangwe, Korekore, Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika, chiBocha etc.

"'" · 5 months ago

Shona might be complex but we still can all communicate well enough regardless of the dialect.The point is inclusion of Shona regardless of the dialect on Google's services means a great deals to us as the Shona speaking people.

Makatukura · 5 months ago

Shona is made not of one dialect but ,CHI-KA-NDA-MA-ZE-KO.ndiyo Shona

Anonymous · 4 months ago

Shona is not complex at all. It has very limited vocabulary SHONA uses one word for numerous meanings, all depending on context. The word MIRA can take on ten different means due to context. Stan is Mira. Stop is Mira. There plenty of such words too.

☣️ · 5 months ago

Sh.o.na is one of the most beautiful languages and easiest to learn.I call it the African japanese language,it's also very similar to Maori language spoken in new Zealand. The Sh.o.na people however can be very noisy,you often hear them talking very loud on the street as they are walking by,and think they are fighting,only to realize that they are just greeting each other. Very wonderful people,some of the nicest people I have ever met, especially the women, very respectful and humble conservative people. One thing I know about the Sh.o.na men is that they are very hard working people,they are not lazy like the Ndebeles.They work hard especially in the farms in south Africa.They are known for their beautiful stone sculpture,mbira and marimba. Unfortunately They are also known for other not so good things like witchcraft,poor fashion taste , being dirty sometimes especially the women in the vegetable markets,and a persistent accent that makes it difficult to pronounce certain English words like sixteen ,twelve and OR.They also have strange cultural behaviors like singing and dancing throughout the night during a funeral making noise for the whole neighborhood,among other things.I have also noticed that Sh.o.na people are okay using certain explicit se.xu.al words,they basically call it as it is se.xu.ally while other cultures consider se.x sacred but not so much to the Sh.o.na people.You will come across popular radio programs at night which basically discusses se.x openly or some strange womens marriage bridal party or whatever it's called.Not to mention the weird Jerusalem s.ho.na traditional ****.ua.l dance or whatever it's called. They also have some of the strangest surnames I have ever heard,you come across a person with a surname like Manyengavana,Murambadoro, Kufakunesu or worse Bonderai.You ask yourself WTF is this now?.The names are even worse,I'm not even going to go there. All being said,they are fairly wonderful people,no culture is perfect.The people themselves are very friendly and warmhearted.Their language by far is the easiest language to learn, that's why I said it's the African japanese language,very beautiful to the ears.The language of angels.

wakahina · 5 months ago

hooo ndozvavari nhai

👀👀 · 5 months ago

well said about isusu maShona

Black forest · 4 months ago

that's profound ,either you are Shona yourself or related to a shona person , however you have left one important attribute of the shona people ,that's peace loving and excellent hospitality to visitors

Anonymous · 4 months ago

What a load of bull. These are some of the most dishonest and corrupt Africans I have ever met. They will smile at you in your face. Pretend to be with you, whilst working hard at your back to destroy you. A classic case is what they did to Joshua Nkomo. Robert Mugabe used to carry NKOMO's bags, coats and jacket everywhere, almost like a Personal Assistant. But he is the Shona who ruined Nkomo in the end. All NKOMO's top leadership were Shona. But look at how they ended up tribalising him, and isolating him to Matebeleland, as MUNDEVERE leader? **** are very dirty, and uncouth. Bulawayo is now a mess because of them. It was the cleanest city in the country in the 1980s, when the Shona numbers were low. The Shona language sounds very ugly to the ear. It's too heavy and it is a barrier in learning other languages. Very few Shona speaking people can speak other languages fluently. Even those Matebeleland people who have learnt Shona, now struggle to speak their languages or pronounce English properly. Please stop lying!

Onnie Theman · 5 months ago

Hoyooo vagonera isu veshona

Zelensky · 5 months ago

Shona ingashaikwa sei ivo vatozara globally vachitiza nhamo, Go SA , UK , Bots , Zambia nearly all towns bordering Zimbabwe,they speak Shona