Google at its annual developer conference: Google I/O 2022 has announced the addition of 24 new languages to the Google Translate app, 8 of which are Indian dialects. With the new additions, Google Translate now supports a total of 133 languages.
The newly added Indian languages are as follows
- Mizo (Mizoram) used by about 830,000 people in Northeast India
- Meiteilon (Manipur) used by about two million people in Northeast India
- Maithili used by about 34 million people in northern Indi
- Konkani used by about two million people in Central India
- Dogri used by about three million people in northern India
- Bhojpuri used by about 50 million people in northern India, Nepal, and Fiji
- Sanskrit used by about 20,000 people in India
- Assamese used by about 25 million people in Northeast India
“With advances in machine learning, we’ve developed a monolingual approach where the model learns to translate a new language without ever seeing a direct translation of it. By collaborating with native speakers and institutions, we found these translations were of sufficient quality to be useful, and we’ll continue to improve them,” said Sundar Pichai Alphabet chief executive in his keynote address.
These are the first languages Google added using Zero-Shot Machine Translation, A new technology where a machine learning model learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example. Since this tech is in the early stages, the company has used it in languages with less number of speakers.
Source: timesnownews.com
