Google announced last Wednesday, 1, that it wants to develop a artificial intelligence using the thousand most spoken languages around the world. This plan is being really analyzed and considered so that the team can compete with other large technology companies in terms of internet domain.
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Data is essential to the progress of AI. Therefore, Google and its main competitors in the technology area want to use this information to improve the performance of its products and make them more accessible to the largest number of people using the services possible.
How is this project being conceived by Google?
"Imagine a new user from theInternet at Africa what speak wolof… using your cell phone forto ask where is the pharmacy nearest”, said Google investor Johan Schalkwyk. “We take these situations for granted”, he continued, adding that the languages “are not available to everyone in the world”.
The technology company has created a Universal Speech Model (USM) that is available in 400 different languages. This is the product that offers the widest coverage in different languages to date,beyondinto work with communitiesto thearoundof the world for purchasedetails about each language or dialectspoken.
Google recently added 24 more new languages to its platform, Google Translate, so it now has voice writing for nine African languages on Gboard. This reflects the commitment from the companyinexpandto theoffersinlanguagesinyourseveralapps.
Secondshalkwick, worldwide, there are over 7,000 languages, yet the company only offers translation into just over 130 languages. She, who is already known for her search engines, wants to expand considerably it is offer and it is working with governments local, NGO and institutionsacademic in the south of Asia for collect audio samples from different dialects at all the region.
This ambitious project could take a few years to complete.
Similar plans from other companies
The company responsible for Facebook, Meta, had already announced earlier this year that it had a similar project named as "At theLanguageLeftBehind”. In Portuguese, “no language is left behind”. The whole plan boils down to including the hundreds of languages that are spoken around the world.
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