New languages available
Thanks to an update to Google Cloud Translate, 24 new languages are available!
Assamese - used by about 25 million people in northeast India
Aymara - used by about two million people in Bolivia, Chile and Peru
Bambara - used by about 14 million people in Mali
Bhojpuri - used by about 50 million people in northern India, Nepal and Fiji
Dhivehi - used by about 300,000 people in the Maldives
Dogri - used by about three million people in northern India
Ewe - used by about seven million people in Ghana and Togo
Guarani - used by about seven million people in Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil
Ilocano - used by about 10 million people in northern Philippines
Konkani - used by about two million people in central India
Krio - used by about four million people in Sierra Leone
Kurdish (Sorani) - used by about 15 million people in Iraq and Iran
Lingala - used by about 45 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Angola and Republic of South Sudan
Luganda - used by about 20 million people in Uganda and Rwanda
Maithili - used by about 34 million people in northern India
Meiteilon (Manipuri) - used by about two million people in northeast India
Mizo - used by about 830,000 people in northeast India
Oromo - used by about 37 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya
Quechua - used by about 10 million people in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and surrounding countries
Sanskrit - used by about 20,000 people in India
Sepedi - used by about 14 million people in South Africa
Tigrinya - used by about eight million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia
Tsonga - used by about seven million people in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
Twi - used by about 11 million people in Ghana
Telegram channels/groups archiving
Sometimes deleting Telegram channels doesn't go quite right, and the old channel remains as 'active' in Kefas. Unfortunately, the 'updates' that Telegram sends to Kefas are not always reliable.
From now on, you can deactivate a channel from within Kefas itself. Please note; we cannot remove the channel, you will have to keep doing this yourself in Telegram.
Limit of channels disappears
By changing the subscription types of Kefas, the limit on the number of channels disappears. As a result, it is now possible to create an unlimited number of channels for different languages.
Help with speech to text testing
For the past few months we have been working on a proof of concept to implement speech to text in Kefas. This first implementation is almost ready to be tested in church services, and for this we are looking for testers!
Are you interested in testing out the speech to text functionality in your congregation? You can respond to this email, and we'll tell you more about it soon!
