Thursday, June 27, 2024

Google Translate adds support for 110 languages, representing 614 million speakers

Amazing stuff! The Tower of Babel reincarnated! Anyone can talk to anyone in any language!

The Google blog post forgot to mention how many of the goal of 1,000 languages their translation service now supports!

"Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company has used its PaLM 2 AI model to power translations. 

These languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, Nko, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazight (Amazigh) and Tok Pisin. The company said the newly added languages represent over 614 million speakers or roughly 8% of the world’s population. 

Google noted that these languages are in different stages of usage. While some of them have 100 million speakers, some of them don’t have any active speakers — but people are working to preserve those languages. ..."

Google Translate adds support for 110 languages, representing 614 million speakers | TechCrunch

110 new languages are coming to Google Translate (original announcement) We’re using AI to add 110 new languages to Google Translate, including Cantonese, NKo and Tamazight.




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