AI is powering the preservation of African languages
MORE African languages are finding their way to Google’s online translation service, as the giant search engine integrates Artificial Intelligence to learn closely related languages. During 2024, the search engine has made its largest foray into the translation of African languages - and seen the highest number of new languages added to the service - ever. "We’re using AI to expand the variety of languages we support. Thanks to our PaLM 2 large language model, we’re rolling out 110 new languages to Google Translate, our largest expansion ever,” said Google Translate Senior Software Engineer, Isaac Caswell. This development marks a…
