Monday, October 11, 2021

Microsoft taps AI techniques to bring Translator to 100 languages

Good news! The Tower of Babel resurrected! Stunning! This is coming from the former "evil empire" of Microsoft! Economic competition is humbling! What will Google's next move be?

"... Its Translator isn’t the first to support more than 100 languages — Google Translate reached that milestone first in February 2016. ...
Powering Translator’s upgrades is Z-code, a part of Microsoft’s larger XYZ-code initiative to combine AI models for text, vision, audio, and language in order to create AI systems that can speak, see, hear, and understand. The team comprises a group of scientists and engineers who are part of Azure AI and the Project Turing research group, focusing on building multilingual, large-scale language models that support various production teams. ..."

Microsoft taps AI techniques to bring Translator to 100 languages | VentureBeat
Today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Translator, its AI-powered text translation service, now supports more than 100 different languages and dialects. With the addition of 12 new languages including Georgian, Macedonian, Tibetan, and Uyghur, Microsoft claims that Translator can now make text and information in documents accessible to 5.66 billion people worldwide.

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