Google Translate adds 110 new languages using AI, breaking down communication barriers for millions around the world.
The new languages are:
Abkhaz
Acehnese
Acholi
Afar
Alur
Avar
Awadhi
Balinese
Baluchi
Baoulé
Bashkir
Batak Karo
Batak Simalungun
Batak Toba
Bemba
Betawi
Bikol
Breton
Buryat
Cantonese
Chamorro
Chechen
Chuukese
Chuvash
Crimean Tatar
Dari
Dinka
Dombe
Dyula
Dzongkha
Faroese
Fijian
Fon
Friulian
Fulani
Ga
Hakha Chin
Hiligaynon
Hunsrik
Iban
Jamaican Patois
Jingpo
Kalaallisut
Kanuri
Kapampangan
Khasi
Kiga
Kikongo
Kituba
Kokborok
Komi
Latgalian
Ligurian
Limburgish
Lombard
Luo
Madurese
Makassar
Malay (Jawi)
Mam
Manx
Marshallese
Marwadi
Mauritian Creole
Meadow Mari
Minang
Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca)
Ndau
Ndebele (South)
Nepalbhasa (Newari)
NKo
Nuer
Occitan
Ossetian
Pangasinan
Papiamento
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi (Shahmukhi)
Q’eqchi’
Romani
Rundi
Sami (North)
Sango
Santali
Seychellois Creole
Shan
Sicilian
Silesian
Susu
Swati
Tahitian
Tamazight
Tamazight (Tifinagh)
Tetum
Tibetan
Tiv
Tok Pisin
Tongan
Tswana
Tulu
Tumbuka
Tuvan
Udmurt
Venda
Venetian
Waray
Wolof
Yakut
Yucatec Maya
Zapotec
I didn’t realize portuguese (portugal) wasn’t a thing yet
Or Cantonese!
I was wondering if they would ever add it just this week, it’s a welcome addition
I just ranted about it not supporting Cantonese the other day
耶~~~!
Is the accuracy as high as with other aspect of AI, e.g. LLMs answering with 90% correctness?
If only some of the newly added translations was not garbage, adding local dialects that differs by location is useless, it’s more like a gimmick. It just makes it harder pick language as you need to scroll over all of those useless ones…
It’s probabably just a PR stunt.
@[email protected] Eh, probably still better than siting with dictionary tring to translate word by word, no? Especially if you don’t know the language For some of these languages there was no machine translation before that at all
all of those useless ones
No language is useless, please don’t say that, some are just smaller
