Tag Archives: Languages

iOS 26.1 Adds New Apple Intelligence Languages and Expands AirPods Live Translation

iOS 26.1 Adds New Apple Intelligence Languages and Expands AirPods Live Translation

With iOS 26.1, Apple Intelligence is gaining support for additional languages, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese. Apple announced plans to expand the languages that can be used with ‌Apple Intelligence‌ last year, and now the added language support is here. ‌Apple Intelligence‌ is now available in the following languages: English (U.S.) English (Australia) …

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iOS 26.1 beta adds new languages for AirPods Live Translation and Apple Intelligence

iOS 26.1 beta adds new languages for AirPods Live Translation and Apple Intelligence

iOS 26.1 beta 1 debuted today, and offers big expansions of AirPods Live Translation and Apple Intelligence thanks to new supported languages. Here are the details. iOS 26.1 adds five new AirPods Live Translation languages, eight for Apple Intelligence Last week when iOS 26 and AirPods Pro 3 launched to the public, Apple mentioned that new supported languages would be …

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Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean

Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean

Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to …

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NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed.  Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update …

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Study Sheds Light on Dispersion of Languages, Ancient DNA

Study Sheds Light on Dispersion of Languages, Ancient DNA

The Language Velocity Field method helps understand the dispersion of language. Credit: Nature Communication Journal / CC BY 4.0 The groundbreaking Language Velocity Field (LVF) method is helping researchers trace dispersion patterns of languages, including Greek, across the world. The spatial evolution of languages can help deepen our understanding of people diffusion and cultural spread. The language velocity field estimation …

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Why Warmer Countries Have Louder Languages

Why Warmer Countries Have Louder Languages

Global distribution of high mean sonority indexes (MSIs) across 9,179 language varieties from the ASJP database. Color of dots represents the MSI of the language, with redder dots indicating higher and bluer dots indicating lower indices. The fill color of land areas represents the mean annual temperature. Image credit: Wang et al., 2023. In the icy tundra of Siberia, people …

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