{"id":830,"date":"2021-11-20T00:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/facebooks-working-on-a-universal-translation-engine-that-can-understand-128-different-languages-social-media-today\/"},"modified":"2021-11-20T00:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:43:57","slug":"facebooks-working-on-a-universal-translation-engine-that-can-understand-128-different-languages-social-media-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/facebooks-working-on-a-universal-translation-engine-that-can-understand-128-different-languages-social-media-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#039;s Working on a Universal Translation Engine that Can Understand 128 Different Languages &#8211; Social Media Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p><span><span><span>You know those futuristic translator devices that they have in sci-fi movies, which enables characters from entirely different universes to converse, in real time, without the need for any prior knowledge of the local tongue?<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>That could soon be a reality, with Facebook\u2019s AI research team today unveiling their latest work on an <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/xls-r-self-supervised-speech-processing-for-128-languages\">improved language translation system<\/a>, which, right now, can translate up to 128 different languages into English within a single application.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>Called <span><span><span>XLS-R, the process is able to perform speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification at a higher rate than any similar systems available.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>As explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/xls-r-self-supervised-speech-processing-for-128-languages\">Facebook AI<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><em>\u201c<\/em><em><span><span><span>Trained on more than 436,000 hours of publicly available speech recordings, XLS-R is based on <\/span><\/span><\/span>wav2vec 2.0, our approach to self-supervised learning of speech representations. Utilizing speech data from different sources, ranging from parliamentary proceedings to audio books, we\u2019ve expanded to 128 different languages, covering nearly two and a half times more languages than its predecessor.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>Indeed, Facebook says that it\u2019s tested XLS-R against <span><span><span>four major multilingual speech recognition benchmarks, in which it outperformed their results on most of the languages tested.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><em><span><span><span>\u201cSpecifically, we tried it on five languages of BABEL, 10 languages of CommonVoice, eight languages of MLS, and the 14 languages of VoxPopuli.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><span><span><span>As you can see here, the error rates for these systems are still relatively high for some languages, but the XLS-R shows a marked improvement in accuracy, which Facebook is still improving as it develops the process.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>That could eventually open up a range of new applications, including cross-border connection, and commerce, expanding opportunities for businesses across the globe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>Facebook also notes that such systems could be of significant value in its future metaverse applications, facilitating more universal connection in these digital, open world communities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span>As noted, Facebook is still developing the system, and Facebook also notes that there are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world, so it\u2019s a long way off a truly universal translator. But it\u2019s another step towards that next stage, and towards making Facebook a more critical utility in connection.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><em>You can read more about Facebook\u2019s XLS-R research <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2111.09296?fbclid=IwAR133x_jKFAGIZTbu5FSaY1fbwJ_sEwrk0CJs8HbNmKOtwVKQyRowenxXhU\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>Follow <span rel=\"author\"> Andrew Hutchinson <\/span> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/adhutchinson\" class=\"analytics t-article-end-author-twitter\"> Twitter <\/a> <br \/>The option to delete single images from carousels will save a lot of social media managers a lot of time and frustration.<br \/>Subscribe to Social Media Today for top news, trends &#038; analysis<br \/>Want to share a company announcement with your peers?<br \/> <a class=\"pressrelease-footer-cta__link analytics t-pr-edfooter-start-loud\" href=\"\/press-release\/get-started\/\"> Get started <span class=\"call-out-link__arrow\">\u2794<\/span> <\/a> <br \/>The option to delete single images from carousels will save a lot of social media managers a lot of time and frustration.<br \/>Get the free daily newsletter read by industry experts<br \/>The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/facebooks-working-on-a-universal-translation-engine-that-can-understand-12\/610323\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know those futuristic translator devices that they have in sci-fi movies, which enables characters from entirely different universes to converse, in real time, without the need for any prior knowledge of the local tongue?That could soon be a reality, with Facebook\u2019s AI research team today unveiling their latest work on an improved language translation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}