Several thousand volunteers are racing against time to add 400,000 Bangla words to Google Translate to commemorate Bangladesh’s Independence Day.

The initiative, co-organised by the ICT Division, Google Developers Group and Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), kicked off on Thursday morning at Agargaon.

It will continue until 6am Friday.

Organisers say adding so many words in a single day will be a record.

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak visited the BCC in the afternoon to egg the participants on.

He said Bangla was not rich enough on Google’s Translate app although it is the seventh most spoken language in the world.

“We hope to achieve twice our target by morning at the pace we’re working,” the youngest member of Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet told reporters.

The Google server had crashed twice after 11am on Thursday after about 10,000 users logged in simultaneously, he said. More.

See: bdnews24.com

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