At today’s I / O developer conference, Google kicked things off by announcing an expansion related to Google Translate. Namely, the service now supports 24 additional languages. This brings the total of supported languages to 133.
The new additions are the first where something called Zero-Click Machine Translation has been used, where a machine learning model sees only monolingual text. Learn to translate into another language without ever seeing a translation example. While technically impressive, this also means that the translation accuracy level is lower than in other languages - at least right now. Google says it will continue to improve results in the future.
The newly added languages are spoken by a total of over 300 million people worldwide, including 800,000 in the far north-east of India and 45 million in Central Africa. For the first time, some indigenous languages of the Americas have also been added, as well as an English dialect.
The complete list is: Assamese, Aymara, Bambara, Bhojpuri, Dhivehi, Dogri, Ewe, Guarani, Ilocano, Konkani, Krio, Kurdish (Sorani), Lingala, Luganda, Maithili, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Oromo, Quechua, Sanskrit, Sepedi, Tigrinya, Tsonga and Twi.
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