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Google said today that it is sum support for 110 languages to its rendering service . The party has used itsPaLM 2 AI modelto baron translations .
These languages admit Afar , Cantonese , Manx , Nko , Punjabi ( Shahmukhi ) , Tamazight ( Amazigh ) and Tok Pisin . The party said the newly tally voice communication represent over 614 million speaker unit or roughly 8 % of the human race ’s population .
Google observe that these languages are in dissimilar stages of usage . While some of them have 100 million speakers , some of them do n’t have any combat-ready speakers — but citizenry are working to preserve those voice communication .
Google enounce it consider element like regional varieties , dialect , and unlike spelling standards while summate funding for a language .
“ Our approach has been to prioritize the most commonly used miscellanea of each linguistic process . For case , Romani is a oral communication that has many dialects all throughout Europe . Our models produce text that is close to Southern Vlax Romani , a commonly used miscellanea online . But it also combine in elements from others , like Northern Vlax and Balkan Romani , ” Isaac Caswell , a software engineer at Google , said in a program line .
The addition of 110 languages to Google Translate is part of its initiative to support1,000 words through AI , which was announced in 2022 . In the same twelvemonth , the companyadded support for 24 languages speak by over 300 million peoplethrough its one - shot fashion model . With the late additions , Google Translate now supports 243 languages .
At WWDC , Apple announced that it is adding support for Hindi to its transformation app . However , as compared to Google , Apple Translate supports just over 20 languages .
