Google Translate has expanded its language support with its largest update yet, now including Luo following a significant enhancement by Google to its online translation service.
The tech giant Alphabet, which owns Google, unveiled the addition of 110 new languages to Google Translate, powered by its advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) utilizing the PaLM 2 large language model.
This AI technology, also behind Google’s Bard AI chatbot, enables the service to translate a diverse range of languages more accurately.
Among the newly supported languages are Awadhi, Cantonese, and Marwari. Isaac Caswell, a senior software engineer at Google, highlighted that approximately a quarter of the added languages are from Africa, marking it as their most extensive expansion of African languages to date.
The Luo people, comprising various Nilotic ethnic groups across regions such as Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Northern Uganda, eastern DRC, western Kenya, and parts of Tanzania, can now benefit from this update.
The Joluo people, often referred to as ‘Luo proper’, speak Dholuo, a language spoken by approximately 4.2 million Luo individuals in Kenya and Tanzania.
Caswell acknowledged the complexity of languages with multiple dialects, variations, and spelling standards, noting that Google Translate aims to provide translations in the most common variety found online, while also accommodating different variations.
He emphasized that while the AI models may occasionally make errors, extensive testing and evaluation with native speakers ensure that translations are generally accurate and useful.
With this update, Google Translate now supports a total of 243 languages, as Google continues its efforts to develop AI models capable of supporting the world’s 1,000 most spoken languages.
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