- Google has upgraded its ‘language translate’ feature by adding 24 languages spoken in different countries. Of the 24 languages, Google has included eight Indian languages including Sanskrit-one of the oldest languages in the world
Search engine giant Google has upgraded its ‘language translate’ feature by adding 24 languages spoken in different countries. Of the 24 languages, Google has included eight Indian languages including Sanskrit-one of the oldest languages in the world. Altogether, Google translate supports a total of 133 languages used around the globe.
What made the expansion possible is what Google is calling a “zero-shot” or “zero-resource” machine translation model — one that learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example of it.
According to Google research scientist Isaac Caswell, the search engine giant’s model works by training a “single gigantic neural AI model” on about 100 data-rich languages and then applying what it’s learned to…
