Google Maps gets support for 39 new languages

Google is constantly releasing updates for its apps, services and devices, now it is being reported that the tech giant has added support for 39 new languages to its navigation software Google Maps. It is being further reported that the new update will have a positive impact on up to 1.25 billion people from all over the world. The list of languages which are added to the support of Google Maps majorly includes European, African and Asian languages. However, there is no new Indian language support added to the Google Maps.

As per some sources from the internet the 39 new languages includes Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Burmese, Bosnian, Czech, creation, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese and Zulu. It would have appreciated if Google also added support for some new Indian languages; however, we can only wait till Google adds support for some Indian languages.

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Also, in one of our recent articles related to Google, we covered that the tech giant has rolled out a new feature for its social networking platform 'Google+'. Google is working on introducing new 'Highlight' feature which will show the notifications on the social network. Google is aiming to make it easier for its user base to keep a track of everything that is happening without bothering the user by sending continuous notifications. It is being further reported that Google will automatically prioritize the notifications to notify a user. Read the complete story here.

We also covered that the tech giant currently uses DeppMind's text-to-speech engine to power up its AI (Google Assistant) and for Google Maps direction. The technology is one of the best when it comes to the performance metrics. Now some report is surfacing over the web that users might soon be able to see the Text-to-cloud engine on third-party products as Google now has made the engine available for the developers. Read the full story here.