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Google announced on Thursday that it has expanded its translation platform to include 110 new languages, using advanced translation technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) model.
This expansion is Google Translation This is the biggest feat ever, made possible by the tech giant’s use of PaLM 2 large-scale language model (LLM).
“From Cantonese to Keqchi, these new languages have more than 614 million speakers, opening up translation opportunities to approximately 8 percent of the world’s population,” Isaac Caswell, senior software engineer at Google Translate, said in the release.
“Several are major world languages, with more than 100 million speakers,” Caswell points out. “Others are spoken by small indigenous communities, and several have few native speakers but are undergoing active revitalization efforts. About a quarter of the new languages come from Africa, representing the largest expansion of African languages to date, including Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda and Wolof.”
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Thanks to its AI technology, Google Translate now supports more than 110 languages, the company announced. (Photo illustration: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Among the highlights of the company’s announcement were Cantonese additions to Google Translate, which Caswell said has been “one of the most requested languages for a long time” for the tool but has been difficult to add because the written form often overlaps with Mandarin, making it “hard to find the data and train the models.”
Shamukhi, a variant of Punjabi that is most spoken in Pakistan, was added along with Afar, a tonal language spoken in Pakistan. Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia The announcement noted that the largest contribution to the community was made by volunteers.
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Google Translate’s biggest expansion to date was made possible by PaLM 2 LLM, which was used to train the AI model that powers the translation tool. (Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Manx, a Celtic language on the Isle of Man, was also almost extinct when its last native speaker died in 1974, but as a result of a revival effort on the island, it now has several thousand speakers.
Tok Pisin, the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, has been added to Google Translate, but Caswell noted that because it is an English-based creole language, English-speaking users of the app should try translating into Tok Pisin as “they might understand the meaning.”
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Google is promoting its 1,000 Languages Initiative, which aims to use AI models to translate the 1,000 most spoken languages in the world. (Photo by Patrick Pullul/picture alliance via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Google said it plans to add more languages to Translation in the future, as it aims to fulfill its previously announced 1,000 Languages Initiative, a commitment by the company to build AI models that support the 1,000 most spoken languages in the world. AI technologies like PaLM 2 The company said the process will accelerate further as technology continues to advance.
“PaLM 2 was an important piece of the puzzle, helping translators learn more efficiently languages that are closely related to Hindi, such as Awadhi and Maldwadi, and French-based creoles, such as Seychellois Creole and Mauritian Creole,” Caswell wrote.
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“As our technology advances and we continue to partner with expert linguists and native speakers, we will support even more language varieties and spelling conventions over time,” he added.
