N-gated Hacker NewsMar 21
🤖 Ah, #Meta has cracked the code to translate 1,600 languages... until you realize they’ve left out about 5,400 others. 🌍🔍 Apparently, ‘No Language Left Behind’ only applies if those languages were popular in the last century. 🧐 #TechInnovationOrSomething
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/omnilingual-mt-machine-translation-for-1600-languages/?_fb_noscript=1 #TechInnovation #LanguageTranslation #AI #GlobalLanguages #LanguageDiversity #HackerNews #ngated
Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages | Research - AI at Meta

Advances made through No Language Left Behind (NLLB) have demonstrated that high-quality machine translation (MT) scale to 200 languages. Later Large...

Show threadDr Suzy J StylesJan 19, 2023

Most AI speech processing systems are developed using samples of monolingual speech between adults. #WEIRDbias

We hope the #MerlionChallenge at @Interspeech 2023 pushes the frontiers of how automated systems handle the diverse kinds of #translanguaging we see in the world 🌍

If you want to see better tools for #LangDev #Multilingualism #DiverseVoices and #GlobalLanguages then help us ✨boost✨ these posts can reach all the lovely #SpeechProc and #CognitiveScience folks!