Meta launches multilingual AI translation model for 100 languages

Source: The post is based on the article “Meta launches multilingual AI translation model for 100 languages”  published in India TV on 23rd August 2023.

What is the News?

Meta, the technology company formerly known as Facebook has launched an advanced multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model named ‘SeamlessM4T.’

What is SeamlessM4T?

SeamlessM4T is the first all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model.

Aim: To allow people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages. 

Features: 

It is capable of performing various tasks including speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, text-to-speech and text-to-text translations.

– For instance, it has speech recognition for nearly 100 languages and speech-to-text translation for nearly 100 input and output languages. It also supports speech-to-speech translation in around 100 input languages and around 35 output languages including English.

It performs the entire translation task in one go, unlike other large translation models that divide translation across different systems. 

It has the ability to recognize when a speaker is code-switching or when someone moves between two or more languages in one sentence. 

It also recognizes gender bias in languages and said the model can quantify gender bias in translations.