Google Pay to get Hinglish support, bill split feature and more

Google today announced a host of India-specific features as part of its Google for India 2021 vision. between apps, google pay Getting loads of user-friendly features to help digitize the economy. The digital payment app will soon get a ‘Hinglish’ language option – a mix of Hindi and English. The new option will be in line with the existing options for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. The company also hopes to make the app smarter by adding “speech to text” to let users use voice input to make payments directly to another user’s bank account.

Users can speak the account number in Hindi or English in the app to enter the account number, which is then confirmed with the sender before initiating payment. Another key feature announced by it is Bill Split, which helps users to split and organize shared expenses. Google Pay will also add a ‘MyShop’ feature aimed at micro-entrepreneurs and merchants. The tool will be available for merchants to use the Google Pay for Business app to help them “digitize” their journey. The company says the addition of the new language option is an effort to make conversations “even more intuitive and natural through Google Pay.”