Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages

Google is adding enactment for 110 caller languages to Google Translate, the institution announced connected Thursday. Before now, Google Translate supported 133 languages, truthful this enlargement — which the institution says is its biggest ever — marks a important jump.

Google’s PaLM 2 AI connection model helped Translate larn these caller languages. It was particularly bully astatine learning ones that were related to 1 another, specified arsenic languages “close to Hindi, similar Awadhi and Marwadi, and French creoles similar Seychellois Creole and Mauritian Creole,” Google’s Isaac Caswell says successful a blog post.

The database of newly-supported languages successful Translate includes Cantonese, which “has agelong been 1 of the astir requested languages for Google Translate,” Caswell says. “Because Cantonese often overlaps with Mandarin successful writing, it is tricky to find information and bid models.” Caswell besides says that “about a 4th of the caller languages travel from Africa.”

Most of the caller languages are spoken by astatine slightest 1 cardinal people, Caswell tells The Verge successful an interview, portion “several” are spoken by hundreds of millions of people.