US EditionGoogle Translate adds 110 new languages using AI in largest ever expansion
- Google Translate is expanding, adding 110 new languages, the largest ever, about 10% of the world's population, thanks to AI advancements.
- Newly added languages by Google Translate, like Awadhi and Marwadi, are spoken by 614 million people, 8% of the global population, focusing on close-related languages.
- A quarter of the new languages come from Africa, marking the largest expansion of African languages on Google Translate, linked to the initiative supporting 1,000 languages through AI.
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Google Translate adds 110 new languages, including support for Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray, and more
MANILA, Philippines – Google announced last Thursday, June 27, it added support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, thanks to some help from its PaLM 2 large language model. While about a quarter of the 110 languages added were said to come from Africa, Google said it also added support for five Philippine languages: Bikol, Hiligaynon, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, and Waray. Aside from this, Cantonese was also added as a highly-requested feat…
In 2004, Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, used a translation program that the company hired to translate an email from Korean into English. According to the translator, the manager received the message “The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes. Google green onion thing!” (” Sliced raw fish fits whatever you want. Google the green onion!”). That meaningless email was the seed of Google Translate, which today can translate 244 languages in real time,…
Google Translate adds Cantonese support, thanks to AI advancement
The Google Translate app has been expanded to include Cantonese, thanks to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements. In 2022, Google began using Zero-Shot Machine Translation to expand its pool of supported languages. The machine learning model learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example, Google said in a Thursday blog post. Now it is using AI to expand the number of supported languages. It added 110 new…
Over 100 new languages are being added to Google Translate
Google has announced the arrival of 110 new languages to its online translation tool. These include rare dialects from all over the world. This new offer has been made possible by advances in artificial intelligence. What promises to be the biggest ever update to Google Translate will bring regional languages, some of them endangered, to the fore. This feat has been achieved thanks to the PaLM 2 language model, unveiled at the Google I/O confere…
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