Google Translate app now offers AI pronunciation tool to master exotic languages

Exactly two decades ago on this day, Google Translate made its global debut. Since the launch, it has grown in popularity with more than one billion active monthly users worldwide.

As Google Translate marks its 20th anniversary, it is introducing a new value-added feature that lets users pronounce the exotic words correctly.

The Pronunciation tool will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech to analyse the user's speech and provide instant feedback. This way, it will help the user nail the right pronunciation before he/she can start a real-world conversation.

Initially, it is available in the US and India in English, Spanish and Hindi.

While natives, like in Bengaluru, are gratified to just listen to half-broken Kannada words of a tourist, pronouncing them correctly will bring more joy to them. They will go an extra mile in guiding the tourist or an emigrant to reach the destination safely on time.

It should be noted that Google Translate now support more than 200 languages and additionally, can interpret 60,000 dialects, including endangered and indigenous languages in the remotest regions of the world. It means Google Translate now supports 95 per cent of the languages spoken by the world's population.

With the Live experience feature on select headphones, Google Translate can be used as a personal translator to instantly interpret exotic languages in any part of the world.

Commonly, smartphone owners, whenever in exotic places, use the app to translate phrases such as 'thank you', 'How are you?' 'I love you,' 'Hello,' and 'Please' to express them in local languages.

As per the latest Google report, people make use of the app to interpret more than one trillion words per month.

With the new pronunciation feature, users will be more eager to learn and master exotic languages to impress native people.

In a related development, Google introduced new ‘touch-up’ tools in the Photos app image editor.

It can help users to apply subtle enhancements that refine skin texture, remove blemishes, brighten eyes or whiten teeth in seconds.

The new touch-up tools are gradually rolling out globally in the Google Photos app on Android devices with at least 4 GB RAM and Android 9.0 and newer versions.

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