Google Voice Search Comes To Malaysia And Indonesia
March 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Good news for our Malaysian and Indonesian neighbours. Google’s Voice Search now supports Malay as spoken in Malaysia (Bahasa Melayu) and Malay as spoken in Indonesia (Bahasa Indonesia).
In addition to these two new languages, Spanish as spoken in Latin America was also introduced.
For a video introduction of Google Voice Search:
Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia and Latin American Spanish joins this range of languages and regional accents:
Mandarin for Mainland China, Mandarin for Taiwan, Cantonese for Hong Kong, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Zulu, along with special recognizers for English spoken with British, Indian, Australian, and South African accents.
About The Author
Gwendolyn Regina T - Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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