Friday, 1 August 2014
Google Maps is now available in Hindi (India) and Google Maps in Hindi will be available for desktop as well as Android users.Google will also launch voice-based navigation prompts in Hindi.
To access Google Maps in Hindi on desktop PCs, users will have to select Hindi as their language for their Google account. To use Google Hindi Maps on Android smartphone, users must select Hindi as the default language from Settings > Language and Input. For desktop users, login to your Google account settings and select Hindi as preferred language.
The option in Google Maps in Hindi is currently available for only popular places of interest and for turn-by-turn text navigation. Suren Ruhela, director product and program management, Google, said voice navigation in Hindi is coming soon for Indian users.
Launching the service nationally from Jaipur, Suren Ruhela, Product and Program Management Director, Google, said, the service may be made available in regional languages based on the feedback of this initiative.
“We made maps useful across the user group whose needs
are uniform. The new Google Map service is more useful and the user can
take a virtual tour of a place where he wants to go and launching it in
Hindi will give comfort to the Hindi users, By
launching Google Maps in Hindi, hopefully Indians can explore and
navigate the world around them more easily, whether these are people who
already use Maps to find their way around day-to-day or Hindi-speakers
coming online for the first time” he said.
