while Google Translate it’s not perfect, but it’s still a useful way to get information or chat. Now this is expanding as an option It uses artificial intelligence to give Google Translate 110 new languages, such as Cantonese, Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and NKo. About a quarter of the languages come from Africa, and Google claims that all the new languages together represent 614 million speakers — about eight percent of the world’s population.
Google credits LLM, PALM 2, as “a key piece of the translation puzzle that helps you more effectively learn closely related languages, including near-Indic languages like Awadhi and Marwadi, and French creoles like Seychellois Creole and Mauritanian Creole”. Isaac Caswell, Principal Software Engineer at Google Translate, adds: “As the technology evolves and we continue to collaborate with expert linguists and native speakers, we will support more language varieties and spelling conventions over time.”
Google Translate got it the last great influx of languages May 2022 with the help of Zero-Shot Machine Translation. Although the Zero-Shot model does not look at patterns, it allows the model to learn a new language. Later that year, Google announced the 1,000 Languages Initiative, which aims to build artificial intelligence models capable of supporting the 1,000 most common languages spoken worldwide.
