Meta has announced an open-sourced single Artificial Intelligence model that can translate across 200 different languages, including Igbo and 55 African languages in its bid to improve and extend language translations on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia.
The ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200 was created in an effort to develop high-quality machine translation capabilities for most of the world’s low-resource languages and will focus on African languages.
The firm explained that AI models require lots and lots of data to help them learn, and there is not a lot of human-translated training data for these languages.
It said, “We worked with professional translators for each of these languages to develop a reliable benchmark which can automatically assess translation quality for many low-resource languages.
