Google Assistant more suited for Indian languages

New delhi date. September 22, 2019, Sunday

Google search engine Google on Thursday announced an important update for its Assistant users in India. From now on, Google Assistant will be served in Hindi when it says 'Ok Google speak Hindi'.

Search engine Google has made significant updates to its product 'Assistant' and made it suitable for various Indian languages. From now on, Google Assistant will serve its users in Hindi by saying 'Ok Google Hindi Speak' or 'Talk to Me in Hindi'.

Apart from Hindi and English, its users will also be able to find content in Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Malayalam. The day before Google Assistant was updated, Amazon announced that Alexa will now be able to communicate in Hindi and Hinglish.

Google's VC Manuel Branston said that the use of 'voice' is increasing in Indians to find something and Hindi is the second most used assistive language after English in the world. This new feature of Google Assistant will be available on all Android, Android Go and QiOS devices. In addition, Google has changed the design of its Google search in India.