Search for Android now understs multiple languages at once

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Published 22 Aug 2014

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‘s voice search on Android now works much smarter for those who are bilingual.

th the update to version 3.6, you can speak to it in any of your languages without having to rifle through the settings. eviously it only recognized one language at at time required changing the default in order to speak another tongue.

Enabling this new feature does take a one-time adjustment. Head to the search settings, select Voice, then nguages to select the boxes of what you want to speak. Search now hles up to five languages at once from among the 50 available. 

After performing this step ‘s voice search should begin recognizing what you say in any of the languages you have selected.

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You can now speak multiple languages at once will underst you.

If you do use a different language the response may still be in your primary language, however. 

For example, I spoke the name of the popular Mexican soccer team Chivas de Guadalajara got a short explanation about it in English. so, the weather comms were rather hit miss in Spanish, sometimes providing the Now weather card other times not.

A blog post by engineer David Eustis says more language responses additional features are to be added over time. It appears that some work to tighten up how understs interprets the diverse set of languages it recognizes is also necessary.