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Google Translate to add more African languages

According to a report on The Next Web, Google Translate will be adding Somali, Zulu, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo to its existing language options.

28 Aug 2013

Google Translate to add more African languages

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The Next Web: Google is working to add Somali, Zulu, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo to Google Translate... A post published to the Google Africa page on Google+ is "asking for volunteers to help evaluate the quality of its current machine translation system," says the report.
Sahan Journal: Google to add Somali to its translation service...

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