Google Is Using AI Power To Expand Support For Translate To 110 Languages: All Details

Google is extending the use of its AI models for practical features and offering 110 new languages that will work through Translate. This is the biggest update that Translate has gotten in a long time and the company is thanking the PaLM 2 large language model for making it possible.

The company claims that with the new AI-powered Translate support, it now caters to more than half a billion people for their languages. For those living in India, Google Translate works for most languages but for a country as big as ours, the new update brings support for a host of native languages as well.

Google Translate AI-Powered Update In India – New Languages Supported

India is a big part of Google’s product focus and Translate is no different with the vast area of geography that caters to thousands of languages. The new AI update for Translate is now supporting the following languages from the country:

– Awadhi

– Bodo

– Khasi

– Kokborok

– Marwadi

– Santali

– Tulu

You can use Google Translate on the web, Android or iOS devices to start using the feature to translate to-and-from these languages.

How Google Uses AI To Power Translate

Google has always preferred supporting languages that are widely used but with the list slowly coming down, it is now eyeing the less popular but very powerful languages.

“Languages have an immense amount of variation: regional varieties, dialects, different spelling standards. In fact, many languages have no one standard form, so it’s impossible to pick a “right” variety. Our approach has been to prioritise the most commonly used varieties of each language,” Google explains in this post.

So, how did AI help the company improve or change the dynamics of this process, especially for the native languages? “PaLM 2 was a key piece to the puzzle, helping Translate more efficiently learn languages that are closely related to each other, including languages close to Hindi, like Awadhi and Marwadi.”

It feels like the company is now eyeing the more fruitful base of users by these updates, which helps Google increase its overall Android user base across the globe.