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TECH T@LK

Meta introduces AI system that can translate 100 different languages

Elon Musk removes blocking option on X except for DMs

OUR BUREAU In some ways, SeamlessM4T is In the meantime, Mozilla led the titask systems,” stated Meta in the
the spiritual heir to Universal Speech development of Common Voice, one blog post.
Los Angeles (CA)
Translator, one of the only direct of the most comprehensive collec- Meanwhile, responding to a tweet
eta has developed an AI speech-to-speech translation systems tions of voices in multiple languages foreshadowing the potential remov-
model called SeamlessM4T that support Hokkien, and Meta’s No for teaching automatic speech recog- al of the block feature, X chief Elon
Mthat can translate and tran- Language Left Behind, a text-to-text nition systems. Musk on Friday announced a mer-
scribe almost 100 languages in both machine translation paradigm. However, SeamlessM4T is one curial plan to remove the feature of
text and speech as part of its effort Additionally, it expanded on Me- of the more daring attempts to date blocking on its social media platform.
to create AI that can comprehend a ta’s architecture for massively multi- to integrate translation and tran- Taking to Twitter, Musk updated
variety of dialects, TechCrunch re- lingual speech, which offers technol- scription abilities into a single model. fans with the new option and tweeted,
ported. A new translation dataset ogy for speech synthesis, language According to Meta, SeamlessM4T “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘fea-
called SeamlessAlign is also available identification, and recognition across outperformed the most recent state- ture’, except for DMs,” Elon Musk
in open source. According to Meta, more than 1,100 languages. of-the-art speech transcription mod- wrote. “Makes no sense.”
SeamlessM4T is a significant break- Not just Meta is devoting efforts el in voice-to-text tasks on an inter- The post was in response to a
through in the field of AI-powered to the creation of cutting-edge AI nal benchmark for background noise Tesla fan account asking if there was a
speech-to-speech and speech-to-text. transcription and translation systems. and “speaker variations” in speech- reason to block rather than mute. The
According to Meta in a blog post As part of Google’s larger effort to to-text tasks. suggestion that the blocking could be
shared with TechCrunch, “Our single develop a model that can compre- This is attributed to the training modeled after the service’s old au-
model offers on-demand translations hend the 1,000 most widely spoken dataset’s rich blend of speech and thentication system, which many us-
that help people who speak different languages in the world, the tech giant text data, which according to Meta ers see as a security feature, has been
languages to communicate more ef- is developing what it calls the Univer- provides SeamlessM4T an advantage pushed back by concerned users, as
fectively.” The source languages are sal Speech Model, which goes beyond over speech-only and text-only mod- per the TechCrunch.
implicitly recognised by Seamless- the wealth of commercial services and els. “With state-of-the-art results, we “Twitter gives people a variety of
M4T without the requirement for open-source models already offered believe SeamlessM4T is an important tools to control their experience, in-
a separate language identification by Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and breakthrough in the AI community’s cluding blocking,” the company wrote
mechanism. a number of startups. quest towards creating universal mul- on its help page.

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