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Not a Googler so I can only guess. But it seems like Google did try to treat Cantonese as a Chinese variant in the past, eventually they dropped it probably bec
by spacehunt 7y ago
Not a Googler so I can only guess. But it seems like Google did try to treat Cantonese as a Chinese variant in the past, eventually they dropped it probably because they realised they're too different.
I know Google is actively working on the Cantonese version of Google Assistant, though not sure when it'll be officially released.
- toastal 7y agoIt is a variant of Chinese though. Chinese is a language family, not a language -- which includes Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, et. al.
- spacehunt 7y agoWhatever it is, Cantonese has different pronunciation, vocabulary and even grammar from Mandarin. Which means it takes a non trivial amount of work to adapt a language model designed for one to the other. Source: I'm a native speaker of one and fully fluent in the other.