SeamlessM4T
Technology
Meta Expands “Seamless” Translation Tech With New AI Models
Built on version 2 of SeamlessM4T, the new open-source models boast state-of-the-art speech recognition and translation capabilities in up to 100 languages.
Not Uyoga Not Translation
As the hottest summer ever experienced by homo sapiens approached its end at the Meta headquarters in California, the world’s ninth-largest corporation announced a new achievement for cyber sapiens: the introduction of SeamlessM4T — "the first all-in-one multimodal and multilingual AI translation model that allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.”
Language
TIME Applauds Language-Related Innovations from Meta, Duolingo, and LEGO
TIME Magazine recognized three language-industry products in its “Best Inventions of 2023” list, underscoring the importance of multilingual communication, accessibility, and inclusion in today’s globalized world.
Technology
Instagram Egregiously Mistranslates Palestinian User Bios, Inserting Word “Terrorist”
A bug in Instagram’s auto-translate feature is highlighting the problem of bias in multilingual language models (MLMs) and the need for more transparency from companies that employ them.