Meiteilon among 24 new languages in Google Translate support list
Among the new Indian languages being introduced include Meiteilon (Manipuri), Assamese, Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili and Mizo.
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12 May, 2022 09:23 am IST
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At its I/O developer conference on Wednesday, Google kicked things off by announcing an expansion relating to Google Translate. Namely, that the service now supports 24 additional languages, including eight new Indian languages. This brings the total supported languages to a whopping 133.
Among the new Indian languages being introduced include Meiteilon (Manipuri), Assamese, Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, and Mizo.
Google said it is also adding indigenous languages of the Americas such as Quechua (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), Guarani (Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil) and Aymara (Bolivia, Chile and Peru) and an English-based dialect Krio (Sierra Leone) for the first time on the service as part of this update.
The list of languages also includes Lingala (Democratic Republic of Congo), Luganda (Uganda and Rwanda), Bambara (Mali), Dhivehi (Maldives), Ewe (Ghana and Togo), Guarani (Paraguay and Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil), Ilocano (northern Philippines), Kurdish (Iraq), Oromo (Ethiopia and Kenya), Sepedi (South Africa), Tigrinya (Eritrea and Ethiopia), Tsonga (Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe) and Twi (Ghana). Overall, 300 million people use these 24 languages as their first or second language, the company said.
The new additions are the first where something called Zero-Shot Machine Translation was used - where a machine learning model only sees monolingual text. It learns to translate in another language without ever seeing a translation example. While technically impressive, this also means the level of translation accuracy is lower than for other languages, at least right now. Google says it will keep improving the results in the future.
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