Ten African Languages Added to Google Translate

n African Languages Added to Google Translate

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“Imagine that you are polyglot and that, based on your understanding of how languages are, you can interpret something. This is more or less how our neural network operates,” Caswell told BBC. Google, however, admits that the technology isn’t perfect, as some linguists have noted problems with the languages already available.

“For many supported languages, even the largest languages in Africa that we have supported–say like Yoruba, Igbo, the translation is not great. It will defi nitely get the idea across but often it will lose much of the subtlety of the language,” said Caswell.

Along with the inclusion of the 10 African languages, the new language update comes with Bhojpuri, which is spoken by as many as 50 million people in northern India, Nepal, and Fiji; Guarani, which is spoken by about 7 million people in Paraguay, as well as indigenous populations in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile; and Quechua, spoken by about 10 million indigenous people in Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia

With the new additions, Google Translator now off ers a total of 133 languages. The tech giant has plans to soon add voice recognition.

Here is the full list of languages, including the African languages, recently added by Google Translate: • Aymara – spoken by nearly 2 million people in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru • Assamese – spoken by nearly 25 million people in northeast India • Ashante – spoken by about 11 million people in Ghana • Bambara – spoken by around 14 million people in Mali • Boiapuri – spoken by around 50 million people in northern India, Nepal, and Fiji • Diveí – spoken by around 300,000 people in the Maldives • Dogri – spoken by around 3 million people in northern India • Jeje – spoken by 7 million people from

Ghana and Togo • Guarani – spoken by 7 million people in

Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil • Ilocano – spoken by around 10 million people in the northern Philippines • Konkani – spoken by nearly 2 million people in central India • Krio – spoken by nearly 4 million people in

Sierra Leone • Sorani Kurdish – spoken by around 8 million people (most of them from Iraq) • Lingala – spoken by nearly 45 million people in the Republic of Congo, Angola,

Republic of South Sudan, and Central

African Republic • Luganda – spoken by nearly 20 million people in Uganda and Rwanda • Maithili – spoken by nearly 34 million people in northern India • Manipuri – spoken by 2 million people in northeast India • Mizo – spoken by around 830,000 people in northeast India • Oromo – spoken by 37 million people in

Ethiopia and Kenya • Quechua – spoken by 10 million people in

Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and regions close to the countries • Sanskrit – spoken by 20,000 people in India • Sepedi – spoken by around 14 million people in South Africa • Tigrinya – spoken by nearly 8 million people in Eritrea and Ethiopia • Tsonga – spoken by around 7 million people in Eswatini, Mozambique, South

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Will Metave

Metaverse travel is the next big thing to hit the travel industry, even if we aren’t there yet. Like space tourism, if you build the idea, the fans will follow. However, unlike taking travelers to some distant space ship for an overnight bunking amid the stars, the metaverse is already here. It just needs refi ning to become a hit with a passionate traveling public.

To that end, citizenM, a chic brand in luxury hospitality is acquiring a spot in “The Sandbox,” a popular decentralized gaming virtual world where users will eventually be able to explore a virtual hotel and interact with other users for such things as NFTs, that can be purchased in the digital space.

Marriott, too, is moving toward the new and yet unformed space that metaverse travel could inhabit. The hotel company entered the metaverse travel space last December with three elements of virtual art seen last year in Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, a leading annual contemporary art show.

The alternative universe is seen by Marriott as a new form of digital marketing and to a new audience. But those watching the travel industry evolve believe the metaverse could be much more in travel, possibly transforming the concept as we know it.

A study on metaverse travel that Emergen Research released this month posits that

this concept has the potential to change the way travelers engage in pre-, post- and in-trip purchases, and become an essential part of the travel ecosystem. Rapid technological adoption by travel and tourism companies to citizenM becomes the fi rst hospitality brand to buy property in The Sandbox create substitutes for realtime travel, increasing investment to create 3D virtual tours, and rising use of metaverse platforms to enhance hospitality services are some key factors expected to boost market revenue growth over the forecast period. In addition, increasing utilization of metaverse by travel and tourism companies to enhance their destination reputation, create immersive marketing experiences, and off er essential information to customers about room booking, room size and features, is another key factor expected to boost revenue growth of the market going ahead. The widespread adoption of metaverse travel explorations, which require sophisticated goggles and intricately mapped products integrating AI and 3D real time integration, is still years away due to lack of aff ordability in the equipment and the time and expense involved in creating these products for evolving platforms. But it is no longer a pipedream to consider traveling to a beloved destination, entering a hotel as an avatar, interacting with other avatars, perhaps having a virtual dinner at an exclusive metaverse restaurant with friends presenting as avatars and using crypto funds to pay for that dinner and then heading off for a walk around the city or to a museum, all in a virtual world you can see and almost touch. In such a vision, the destination tours segment is expected to account for a signifi cantly large