In addition to improving the ability of Google assistants to communicate with users in a more natural way, Google also announced today to improve its translation service Thanks to technological advances over the past few years, Google's ability to add new languages has improved. The company said it would add 24 new languages - including the first indigenous languages in the Americas, including Quechua, Guarani and Aymara.
Other newly added languages include the following. These 24 new languages are used by more than 300 million people around the world:
"This includes smaller languages, such as Mizo spoken by people in Northeast India - about 800000 people - and very large world languages, such as lingala spoken by about 45 million people in Central Africa," said Isaac Caswell, a Google translation research scientist
He added that in addition to the native languages of the Americas, Google translation will support the Krio English dialect of Sierra Leone for the first time. The company said it chose the newly supported languages to find languages with large populations but insufficient Services - which often appear on the African continent and the Indian subcontinent. It also wants to address indigenous languages that are often overlooked by technology.
"Until a few years ago, it was technically impossible to add languages like these. We call them low resources - which means there are not many text resources. But one is called" zero point machine translation " "The new technology of makes it easier. You can imagine how it works. You have a single huge neural artificial intelligence model, which performs translation training in 100 different languages. You can think of it as a generalist who knows many languages. But in addition, it can see texts in more than 1000 languages that have not been translated. Imagine starting to read novels in another language, and according to you Our knowledge of language pieced together what it meant. "
This extension brings the total number of languages supported by the service to 133. But Google said the service still has a long way to go because there are still about 7000 unsupported languages in the world that translation companies have not solved.
Google pointed out that the new language will be launched on Google translation today, but it will not reach all users around the world in a few days.