Tag: english

• How Google created a Nigerian voice and accent for Maps

  August 4, 2019

  Directions and local street names, previously mispronounced by a default American or British accent, were now offered in a familiar accent with a new “Nigerian English” option. Novel as it… more ›

• Arrival of the Babel Fish

  July 4, 2019

  In the very near future, maybe in ten years, we’ll have earpods that will do real time language translation. Someone speaks Greek to you, and with the slightest delay, you’ll… more ›