Google today said it is adding support for 110 languages to its Translate service. The company has used its Translate service for 110 languages. PaLM 2 AI Model Empowering translation.
These languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, Ngo, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazight (Amazigh) and Tok Pisin. The company said the newly added languages represent more than 614 million speakers, or about 8% of the population.
Google said that these languages are in various stages of use. Some of them are spoken by 100 million people, while some have no active speakers, but people are working to preserve the language.
Google said it considers elements such as regional variations, dialects and different spelling standards when adding support for a language.
“Our approach has been to prioritize the most commonly used varieties of each language. For example, Romani is a language that has many dialects across Europe. Our models produce text that is closest to Southern Vlax Romani, which is the most commonly used variety online. But it also mixes with other elements such as Northern Vlax and Balkan Romani,” Isaac Caswell, a software engineer at Google, said in a statement.
The addition of 110 languages to Google Translate is part of its support initiative. 1,000 languages via AIWhich was announced in 2022. In the same year, the company Added support for 24 languages spoken by over 300 million people Through your one-shot model.
At WWDC, Apple announced that it was adding support for Hindi to its Translate app. However, compared to Google, Apple Translate only supports over 20 languages.
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