News & Reviews:   Bahasa Malaysia

In conjunction with Malaysia Day yesterday, Ryt Bank has rolled out Chinese language support in its mobile app, complementing its existing Bahasa Malaysia and English versions. This move underscores the bank’s mission of fostering unity and inclusivity in digital finance, ensuring more Malaysians can bank securely in their preferred language.

Do you enjoy shopping online on Taobao? And what if your preferred language is in Bahasa Malaysia? Well, good news. Taobao Malaysia announced plans to further enhance the local shopping experience by launching a Malay-language interface tentatively in June.

Editor's note - On 11 April, we were updated by Google that Gemini Live supports Bahasa Indonesia, not Bahasa Malaysia, as we thought

For a few months, the Google Gemini App is free to download on most Android phones from the Google Play Store. To the uninitiated, it's an app that lets you chat with Gemini. Today, a source reported that Gemini Live can now understand Bahasa Malaysia.

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) has announced that it has appointed 3 social media influencers to help promote the use of proper language among the public. Dubbed as “language icons”, among the influencers include Dr. Malar Santhi Santherasegapan, a doctor serving in the Emergency Department at Columbia Asia Hospital in Cheras, Selangor, with a sizeable following on social media.

AI is certainly a topic that's been almost talked to death this year and we don't see the end of it. Anyway, Google just released a new Gemini app on the Google Play Store and it's free to download and use.

Among the biggest issues with current artificial intelligence (AI) systems is limited language support. The best example is ChatGPT which does not support Bahasa Malaysia. When told to use this language, it starts speaking in Bahasa Indonesia which is very different. But, that could change soon.