Hike Messenger to support eight Indian languages

Hike Messenger has announced to support eight Indian languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, starting December 23. With this launch, people and communities across India can now be in touch with their family, friends and contacts in their own native languages, defying the English language barrier, erstwhile felt in messaging apps. The app will be available immediately on Android. Some of the features include multi-lingual interface, keyboard, predictive texts and stickers in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu. The company offers a new interface, which means, from the moment you open the app, you can choose the language of your app. Multi-lingual keyboard allows you type in up to nine languages (including English).

It also offers glide functionality at the bottom of the chat panel that lets you swap between the languages. This works well for a bi-lingual or multi-lingual chat experience. The keyboard comes packed with predictive text technology that works on artificial intelligence and gives a range of relevant words in your native language. Commenting on the launch, Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO & Founder, Hike Messenger said, “Today, we’re excited to launch hike in 8 local languages. For the first time ever millions of Indians will be able to seamlessly chat in their local languages only on hike. Every single hiker will now be able to choose a local language and also with it, see a special keyboard that they can use built specifically for that language. One cannot build for India without understanding the enormous diversity in the country. This is another big step towards catering to that diversity to bring India online.”