Google today announced that Google News and Google Search are now available in Swahili, one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa. This brings the total number of languages that Google News supports to 108, and the total number of languages that Google Search supports to 133..
Swahili is a Bantu language spoken by over 100 million people in East and Central Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is also an official language of the African Union and the East African Community..
Google said that it has been working on adding Swahili to its products for several years, and that it has trained its machine learning models to understand and translate Swahili text. The company has also worked with Swahili-speaking journalists and linguists to ensure that the translations are accurate and culturally appropriate..
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