Google now lets you send voice commands to your phone in Urdu

With the latest update, Google’s speech recognition now supports 119 languages

Google's voice search has introduced support for 30 different languages including Urdu.

You can now send voice commands to your phone in Urdu and its voice recognition software will do the rest. Users can tell the phone whether to place a call, search on the browser or other simple functions.



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

"This process trained our machine learning models to understand the sounds and words of the new languages."



The other languages include Georgian, Gujarati, Sundanese,  Swahili,  Tamil, Telugu among many others.

The new languages are also available in Cloud Speech API and will soon be available across other Google apps and products, including the Translate app.

With the latest update, Google’s speech recognition now supports 119 language varieties.

Enabling voice typing

To enable Voice Typing in your keyboard, install Gboard from the Play Store and pick your language (press the G in the suggestion strip and select the Settings wheel). Then just tap the microphone to start speaking. To enable Voice Search, open the Google app and pick your language in the Voice settings menu (tap the top-left menu and go to Settings, then pick Voice and select your language).

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