Toscad News Google Translate has added 24 new languages to its existing register, making it 133 the number of languages it can intepret using its algorithms.
The firm listed languages indigenous to Africa, India and the Americas spoken by 300 million people.
Some of the new African languages in the list are spoken Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, Mali, South Africa, Eritrea, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Namibia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
No Nigerian language was included this time. The translator already supports Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.
The new list includes Assamese, used by about 25 million people in Northeast India, Aymara, spoken by about 2 million people in Bolivia, Chile and Peru Bambara, native to about 14 million people in Mali.
Google said the new languages are the first to use Zero-Shot Machine Translation, in which a machine learning model only sees monolingual text and learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example.
Google admitted that the technology is not perfect.
Issac Caswell a senior software engineer, Google Translate, says, this also is a technical milestone for Google Translate.
Edited by: Ngozi Anna Akunne
Source: Premiumtimesng.com
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