Google Translate is getting support for over 110 new languages

Google on Thursday announced that it is adding support for 110 new languages ​​to Google Translate. Previously, Google Translate supported 133 languages, so this expansion — which the company says is its largest ever — is a significant leap.

Google’s PaLM 2 AI Language Model Translate was found to be helpful in learning these new languages. It was particularly good at learning languages ​​that were related to one another, such as “languages ​​close to Hindi, like Awadhi and Marwari, and French creoles like Seychellois Creole and Mauritian Creole,” writes Google’s Isaac Caswell A blog post said,

The list of newly supported languages ​​in Translate also includes Cantonese, which “has long been one of the most requested languages ​​for Google Translate,” says Caswell. “Since Cantonese often overlaps with Mandarin in writing, it’s difficult to find data and train the model.” Caswell also says that “about a quarter of the new languages ​​come from Africa.”

Caswell reported that most of the new languages ​​were spoken by fewer than one million people. Verge The word “many” is used by millions of people in an interview.