Washington, May 12: Tech giant Google announced that it has added 24 new languages spoken by more than 300 million people to its Google Translate platform, BBC reported on Thursday.
Ten of the new languages are spoken in Africa, including Lingala, Twi and Tigrinya.
The company said in a statement that in keeping with its policy of helping break down the language barriers and connect communities across the world, it now wants to help those languages that aren’t represented in most technology.
The new languages range from Bhojpuri, which is spoken by as many as 50 million people in northern India, Nepali and Fijian, to Dhiveri which is spoken by an estimated 300,000 people in the Maldives.
With this latest move there are now a total of 133 languages available on Google Translate.
According to Google the new languages also represent a technical milestone, explaining that they use a machine learning model which learns to “translate into another language without ever seeing an example”, which can be useful for languages where large datasets of human translations, which can be used to train a computer, are not available. (UNI)
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