Google Maps Now Offers Better Discoverability in 10 Indian Languages

Jan. 28, 2021



In order to makeGoogle Mapsaccessible to more people in India, Google announced some major improvements to help its navigation app transliterate search results in 10 new Indian languages. This is an important update forGoogle Mapsand the Mountain View giant believes it would help the“next billion users”access the app in their native languages.

As a result of this improvement, Google Maps is able to cover the names of more POIs than before. This coverage, as per Google, increased “nearly twenty-fold” in some of the included languages. The company explained the working of its new transliteration models in a detailed blog post which you cancheck out right here.

Google believes that this update to Google Maps will“immediately benefit”millions of users in India. It will make the app accessible to many users who are not well-versed with the English language.

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