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Meta is plunge a young program in partnership with UNESCO to pull together speech recordings and transcriptions the company said will help the growth of succeeding openly available AI .
The program , theLanguage Technology Partner Program , is seek collaborator who can contribute more than 10 hr of speech transcription with transcriptions , large sum of written text edition , and sets of translated sentences in “ diverse languages . ” According to Meta , partners will forge with the company ’s AI teams to integrate these lyric into AI speech recognition and translation model , which — when finalise — will be unresolved sourced .
pardner so far include the government of Nunavut , a sparsely populated territory in Northern Canada . Some resident physician of Nunavut address Intuit spoken language collectively known as Inuktut .
“ Our efforts are particularly concentrate on underserved languages , in support of UNESCO ’s work , ” Meta wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch . “ at long last , our goal is to create intelligent systems that can translate and respond to complex human needs , regardless of language or cultural background . ”
Complementary to the new broadcast , Meta said that it ’s releasingan undetermined source political machine translation benchmarkto value the performance of language translation example . The benchmark , composed of sentences craft by linguists , put up seven languages and can be accessed — and contributed to — from the AI development platform Hugging Face .
Meta is framing both initiatives as philanthropic . But the company stands to benefit from upgraded speech - identification and version models .
Meta continue toexpand the number of languagesits AI - power assistant , Meta AI , backup , and pilot features such as reflexive transformation for Godhead . Last September , Meta denote that it would start testing a cock to read vox in Instagram Reels , allowing creators to nickname their lecture and car - lip - sync it .
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Meta ’s discussion of content in languages other than English across its platforms has been the fair game of much criticism . accord to one report , Facebook left almost 70 % ofItalian- and Spanish - language COVID misinformationunflagged compare to just 29 % of similar English - spoken communication misinformation . Andleaked documents from the companyreveal that Arabic - language posts are regularly flagged erroneously as hate speech .
Meta has say that it ’s taking steps to amend its transformation and easing applied science .
