Want to Google the name of a restaurant in
English and then ask for the weather in Japanese? On Android it
no
longer requires switching back and forth between language settings.
For voice searches, users can now select up to five languages in the search app from the more than 50 supported, Google said
Thursday. The app already supported that many languages, but users had
to change their settings every time they wanted to switch between them.
Now it recognizes automatically the language being spoken.
The change lets people search information in different languages
back-to-back. That means you can ask for the weather in Spanish and then
dictate a text in French, Google explained.
For now, the update is only for voice search with the latest version of the search app on Android, a Google spokeswoman said.
Getting it to work requires a one-time change to the language
settings in the apps menu. Some languages are available in quite a few
dialects. For Spanish, there's different versions for El Salvador,
Spain, Mexico and other countries. For Chinese, there are three versions
of Mandarin and also Cantonese. A handful of forms for Arabic are
supported.
Results are displayed in the language spoken, assuming the app
detects it. In one test, spoken results were given for the local weather
in Japanese, but not in Spanish.
Google said it will add more languages over time.
On the desktop, people can select their preferred language for all Google services via their Google+ page. But as it works now, only one language can be chosen.
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