Google Translate Adds 110 New Languages with AI, Spoken by Over 614 Million People
MADRID, June 28 (Portaltic/EP) –
Google added 110 new languages at your service Google Translate thanks to its model Artificial Intelligence (AI) PaLM 2, which includes over 614 million speakers, including languages with over 100 million speakers, small indigenous communities.
The tech giant continues to work to make it easier for people to communicate. In that sense, it has passed on its intends to “break language barriers” by applying the latest artificial intelligence technologies in Google Translate.so that more people can access this tool.
In that 2022 yearGoogle now added 24 new languages to your translator using Zero-Shot machine translation technology. That same year, the company also announced its 1000 Languages Initiativewith the aim of supporting the most widely spoken languages around the world.
Now, Google announced expansion to a total of 110 languages which will come to Google Translate to give Translation support for over 600 million peopleas he shared in a statement on his blog.
In particular, the technology company explained that it used Google Translator to expand the language diversity of its translator. large tongue model (LML) PaLM 2, with the help of which he managed to realize his “the biggest expansion” relatively new languages included in Google Translate. This is because thanks to this MML Google Translate can learn languages that are closely related to each other more effectively.
So Google has been on board since then Cantonese dialectone of the most in-demand languages because it often overlaps with Mandarin in written form, while from afar – a language spoken in countries such as Ethiopia, or the Celtic language of the Isle of Man, Manx.
Similarly, it was also added Punjabi (Shahmukhi), what language is most commonly spoken in pakistan or nkowhich is a standardized form of the Mandinka languages of West Africa, uniting many dialects into a common language.
On the other hand, Google will also have translations to Tamazight (Amazigh)Berber language spoken in North Africa, and current pisinLingua Franca of Papua New Guinea.
The American technology company also clarified that About a quarter of new languages come from Africatherefore it includes Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda and Wolof.
At the same time, Google has made sure that after adding these new languages, will represent a total of 614 million speakerswhich will allow you to make transfers to 8 percent of the world’s population.
Likewise, these added languages range from languages spoken by over 100 million people to parts of small indigenous communitiesbesides some languages for which there are practically no native speakersbut they are working to revive the language.
When choosing new languages to add to Google Translate, the tech company has indicated that it takes into account issues such as regional variations, dialects, or different spelling standards. In this case, the company’s approach was Prioritize the most used varieties of each language so that the translation can reach as many people as possible.
Taking all this into account, Google noted that as technology advances, will continue to collaborate with experienced linguists and native speakers so that over time I could support even more language varieties and spelling rules.