Updates January - Archiving channels, more flexible subscriptions and speech to text

Posted by Bob on January 31, 2023

Over the past month we have been working on a number of improvements in Kefas. In this post we'd like to tell you about these latest developments.

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!

Bob
Bob

Bob is freelance developer en ontwikkelde Kefas. Bob spreekt misschien niet zoveel talen, maar redt zich prima met computertalen!

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