Tag: Google
Using AI to assess literary and religious translations
A recent study published in the journal IEEE Access is shining light on ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be used to assess the quality of a human-created translation.
24 languages added to Google Translate using zero-shot translation
f the 24 languages added to Google Translate this week, only three are available on Microsoft Translator. The addition brings the number of languages offered on Google Translate to 133.
Cohere and Google Cloud Announce Multi-Year Technology Partnership
TORONTO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2021 — Cohere, a provider of cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) services, and Google Cloud today announced a...
Youtube to Add Several New Audio and Caption Features
Google recently announced last week that it will be adding a whole new series of features to Youtube’s closed captioning and subtitles, including a...
Microsoft Translator Now Available in 100+ Languages
The team behind Microsoft’s Azure AI platform recently announced that the company’s machine translation (MT) system, Microsoft Translator, is now capable of translating text...
Open World E07 Ft. Kate Edwards – LocFact #TheSims
Alexis: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another LocFact.
Loretta: Hi, guys. For today's LocFact, we will be talking about a game that has sold enough copies...
Microsoft Turing Model Tops NLP Leaderboard
A Microsoft-developed language representation model has been ranked among the best in the world on Google’s Cross-Lingual Transfer Evaluation of Multilingual Encoders (XTREME) public...
Google Presents Updated S2ST Model, Mitigates Deepfake Potential
When Google first announced the development of the Translatotron in 2019, the speech-to-speech translation program was commended for its ability to produce target language...
Timnit Gebru and The Problem with Large Language Models
In December of 2020, Google fired Timnit Gebru, a co-leader of their Ethical Artificial Intelligence team (Google continues to maintain Gebru resigned, though even...
Google Releases Dataset to Address Gender Bias
In an effort to address the gender bias in its neural machine translation (NMT) technologies, Google has recently released a new dataset that appears...
Google Launches App for Language Preservation
Google’s Arts & Culture team has recently launched Woolaroo, a new tool for learning and preserving Indigenous and vulnerable languages. Woolaroo is available as...
Weekly Shorts | May 7, 2021
Portuguese Diplomat Pushes for Official Language Status at United Nations
Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said in a press conference that he...