It is the last day of the second edition of the Google India Translatathon and for a few more hours you could stand a chance to win an Android One device from Google. As part of an effort to increase native language support for Google Translate, the company has been encouraging Indians to join the Google Translate Community. With the Translatathon initiative, Google is asking people to help improve accuracy of the following Google Translate languages- Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Punjabi.
According to a press statement released by the company, “Once you join the translatathon, you can Translate and Validate words and short phrases up until December 30th. We will then reward the 50 most active and accurate contributors with an Android One phone. Users can register themselves for the Google Translate Community here. Translators also need to have a Gmail account to enter the community. Once registered, users will be redirected to the Google Translate Community page. Here, one can earn badges for translating words and phrases into their native languages.
Highlighting its achievements of last year’s translatathon Google said, “Last year 20,000 people contributed over one million new Hindi translations, helping improve the overall quality of Hindi content online. We’re now including all the Indic languages that Google Translate is available in, and we look forward to seeing how people from across the country can help Google say जंगल में मोर नाचा किस ने देखा? or আপনার পায়ে কুড়ল মারা more accurately. Millions of people in India are coming online for the first time and most of them don’t speak English. Bringing more Indian language content online, and improving Indian language translation quality, will help them have a better experience on the Web.”