Google Bard widens reach with nine Indian language support By Elets News Network - 14 July 2023

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The nine Indian languages of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Urdu, Malayalam, Marathi, and Gujarati are now supported by Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard. Over 40 different languages are supported globally by the intelligent chatbot.

For audio responses, Google has also added a sound icon to Bard. Additionally, users can alter the tone and manner of the response; this feature is already available in English and will subsequently be made available in additional languages.


In order to allow Bard users to add images to their prompt and perform analysis or add a photo caption, Google is also utilizing Lens. The company announced that it is now accessible in English (US) and that it will soon be made available in additional languages. At the Google I/O conference on May 10, the feature was first shown off. In the past, Bard could only use images as responses.

By switching to PaLM 2 (Pathways Language Model 2), Bard’s underlying model, its coding and reasoning abilities have improved. Bard can export Python code to Replit, a browser-based platform for collaborative coding, to increase its developer appeal. For the purpose of fostering innovation in generative artificial intelligence, Google and Replit have an ongoing partnership that was first announced in March.

The ability to pin and rename conversations as well as share the entire chat with other users are among the additional new Bard features that Google has announced.

Bard, initially only offered in the US and the UK, has since been made available in places like Brazil and Europe. In May, Bard became accessible to users in India.

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Google held the I/O Connect event in Bengaluru last month. Important announcements made at the event included the launch of an accelerator program for the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and the availability of the PaLM application programming interface (API) to Indian developers. Additionally, Google announced that the first set of Project Vaani speech data, which includes more than 4,000 hours of audio in 38 languages, will be made publicly available. Through cooperation with the Indian Institute of Science, Project Vaani was developed.

OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, a competitor of Bard, declared the general availability of language model GPT-4 on July 6. GPT-4 is the foundation of the paid version of ChatGPT Plus. Additionally, OpenAI revealed that ChatGPT Plus customers can use the Bing search engine to find pertinent information. This is significant because Google’s Bard used data from the web to provide answers to queries, in contrast to ChatGPT, which was trained on data available through the year 2021.

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