Facebook rolls out new tool that translates posts into different languages

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Facebook has rolled out a new tool that lets users translates posts into multiple languages. The social network is calling the tool as multilingual composer and it was first rolled out for Pages earlier this year. Now, it is expanded for individual people on Facebook.

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Google Hindi Input app gets Material Design update, handwriting support and more

Google Hindi input app is the latest one from Google that is getting the Material Design update. The app has been updated with handwriting support which was not present earlier.

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Google adds multi language support to Voice Search on Android

Google has updated Voice Search on Android with multi language support. This essentially means that a person who knows more than one language can switch among them when making voice searches without having to change the settings on the app.

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Nuance introduces support for ‘Hinglish’ language in Swype

Most Android users have tried and tested the Swype keyboard which relies on quite literally swiping your fingers across the on-screen keyboard. It uses adaptive learning capabilities and smart algorithms to type out the current word and more. Nuance today announced that keeping in mind the Indian market where users tend to mix English and Hindi while messaging, they’ve worked on a special ‘Hinglish’ keyboard. The keyboard has a dictionary of several thousand words which are often used including chai, paani, desi, garam, masti, jungli amongst others.

In addition, the application is much smarter than before due to its added capabilities like Next Word Prediction and Multi-Modal Keyboard which are detailed below.