Google has announced that Google Translate, its multilingual neural machine translation service, has begun offering the possibility of translation into 24 more languages. Ten of the new additions are African languages.
The Ethiopian language list includes Tigrinya, spoken by about 8 million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia and Oromo, spoken by 37 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya. The African languages of Bambara, Jeje, Krio, Luganda, and Tsonga were also added.
Google software engineer and researcher Isaac Caswell revealed that the company implemented, for the first time, the use of a neural model of artificial intelligence that learned the languages “from scratch.”He explained that to implement the new languages, Google used millions of examples that were needed for a system to “understand” and be able to translate them. With the neural model, also known as machine learning model, the added languages were trained in this way. Technology then began to “understand” how languages work. The company says it consulted representatives from several communities before releasing the new languages.
Along with the inclusion of the 10 African languages, the new language update
Google Translator now offers a total of 133 languages. The tech giant has plans to soon add voice recognition.
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