Tag Archives: language

  • Google Translate Turns 10 Years Old

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    One of Google’s services had a birthday yesterday. Translate, the company’s tool for translating words from one language to another, first launched on April 28th, 2006. I was in high school back then. Typing words into a browser wasn’t accurate enough to eliminate the need to learn a new language and all its nuances, but […]

  • Google Handwriting Input Adds Support For Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, And Burmese

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    Google’s Handwriting Input got its independent Play Store listing back in April and has since received very few updates. That’s why the latest version bump to 1.5 (and the subsequent 1.5.1 release) seemed to be significant and in fact, it added 5 new languages to the list of existing 82 languages. These are Arabic, Persian, Urdu, […]

  • Today Calendar Adds Natural Language Processing When Scheduling Appointments

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    Calendar apps are a dime a dozen on the Play Store, but few of them have the polish, power, and intuitive interface of Today Calendar. Now the app can add one more bullet point to its list of handy options that make it easier and faster to schedule appointments and tasks: natural language processing. What that means […]