What is the first thing which comes to your mind when you hear Gemini ?. A couple of years ago, it would be something related to astrological, but now it will be obviously the artificially intelligent chatbot which has been launched by Google. This chatbot has effectively made life easy for you in your academic or professional career. However, still, some of you still felt a problem while using this AI chatbot, right?
This app only supports English as a medium for communication, and since English is not your mother tongue, it is obvious sometimes you will have problems properly writing the queries or requests to the chatbot. You wish how good it would be if it supported the language which you prefer? It is time to rejoice as Google has finally granted your wish as their AI chatbot is about to expand to regional languages of India that too in something which is about to make your daily life more easy.
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How will it make your life easy?
You can now talk to Gemini too, in your own preferred language, and it is obvious many of you prefer the easiest way to post your queries or questions by speaking rather than typing it. On 3rd October 2024, the annual Google for India event in New Delhi, the Senior Director of Product Management Hema Budaraju confirmed it as one of their latest update to Gemini Live, which is basically one of the alternatives of this chatbot where mainly the interaction goes by voice-based instead of text.
Now you must be wondering what languages will be supported in this chatbot and if your preferred language is in the list or not? Your all queries answer is one the next one.
What are the regional languages which will be supported?
Mainly, nine regional languages of India will be supported in this chatbot. They are Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu etc.
However, are you also wondering if this entire process is free or if some subscription criteria are imposed on it?
Is it free?
You will be glad that it is completely free, and you can access it just by having an Android smartphone and an account on Google Play Store.
How to use it?
Step | Action | |
1 | Sign in to your Google account. | |
2 | Download the app from the Google Play store. | |
3 | Open the app | Â |
3 | Click on the waveform icon. | |
4 | Gemini Live is activated. | |
5 | Use your own preferred language to chat with it. | Â |
Why has it expanded to various regional languages?
As stated by Hema Budaraju, the reason why it is done since India is one of their top markets; this will effectively bring more Indian users in this context. Also not only but another main aim of this process is to ensure that more and more people of India use this chatbot in their daily lives and bring efficiency and productivity, especially in their professional and personal lives.
Is it available in any other language besides this?
Besides these 9 Indian languages, it is also available in more than 40+ languages, some of them since its inception, and some of them came with the newest updates.
Language available in Gemini live since August | Languages which came on the newest updates |
English | Japanese |
Korean | Arabic |
Bahasa Indonesia | Bulgarian |
Chinese (Simplified) | Chinese (Traditional) |
Croatian | Czech |
Danish | Dutch |
Estonian | Farsi |
Finnish | French |
German | Greek |
Hebrew | Hungarian |
Italian | Latvian |
Lithuanian | Marathi |
Norwegian | Polish |
Portuguese | Romanian |
Russian | Serbian |
Slovak | Slovenian |
Spanish | Swahili |
Swedish | Thai |
Turkish | Ukrainian |
Vietnamese | Polish |
Will it come in other languages?
Through officially not confirmed, but according to various insiders, Google is training this particular chatbot in more than 50+ languages to ensure that they in this process can successfully cater to more audiences from various regions and outperforms competitors like OpenAi in this process.
Also, it is being stated by various insiders that in India, not only nine languages, but Google is eying to training this app in many other Indian languages like Odia, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Santhali, Assamese, Garhwali.So, to reach more Indian customers in this process and strengthen their market position also as one of the leading contenders of AI and technology companies in this process.Â
What is Gemini Live?
It is mainly a voice-based AI interaction which enables users to have various verbal conversations with the AI assistant of the company. Instead of typing or reading responses to the screen an individual can directly speak with the AI and receive various replies in this process.
One of the common features which has been seen in this app is that it can keep various conversational flows in a natural way. It can provide various inputs and outputs based on the voice. Moreover, it can also successfully support ten different voices, and It has the ability to interrupt the mid response of any AI.
One of the reasons why this particular version of AI was launched is to make Google make this technology, which is AI, more accessible for the common people in this scenario. This thing has already met with various positive feedback from the consumers which directly makes this alternative of Google to be a success in this process.
Why did Google launch Gemini?
Initially, this chatbot was not even named Gemini when it was first launched in December of 2023 by Google. Initially, it was known as Bard. It was mainly launched by them as a response to the growing popularity that has been seen on chatbots such as ChatGPT, CoPilot etc. This chatbot was initially based on the AI model, which is a large language model or LLM.
This app, when it first started, it mainly used in the process of typing, talking or uploading pictures, and slowly, new updates became more and more developed. Also, in recent days, Google has claimed that Gemini has the ability to outperform GPT 4, which is the model of ChatGpt.Â
FAQ
What languages does Gemini currently support ?
9 regional languages of India: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu and 40+ other languages: Including English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, etc. (Full list not provided in the article).
Is it free?
Yes, it is completely free. You only need an Android phone and a Google Play Store account.
Why did Google expand it to support regional Indian languages?
To reach more Indian users since  India is a major market for Google, and this expansion aims to bring more people on board. And also To improve efficiency and productivity By offering in local languages, Google hopes people will integrate it more into their daily lives.
What is Gemini Live?
A voice-based AI interaction feature which Allows users to speak directly with it instead of typing and also Supports natural conversation flow which Can understand and respond to spoken prompts and maintain context.
Why did Google launch their own chatbot?
As a competitor to ChatGPT and other chatbots.