Tag: Multilingual

Testing the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) Model that Supports 1162 Languages

Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS)¹ is the latest release by Meta AI (just a few days ago). It pushes the boundaries of speech technology by expanding its reach from about 100 languages to over 1,000. This was achieved by building a single multilingual speech recognition model. The model can a...

Living in a Multilingual World

Mystudent looked surprised. I’d only said “How are we doing?” Yet he couldn’t understand why I’d included myself in that question. It was autumn 2019, a few months before Covid shut down the world, and I was teaching at an independent language school in central ...

Case study: Building multilingual museum tours in the blink of an eye

The cost and time required to create multilingual content forced museums to limit the number of languages available, but also the amount of multilingual content available in their visitor app. This pain point led Livdeo to think over the methodology required for museums to meet this need. This is...

Arabic-Centric Open Foundation and Instruction-Tuned Generative Large Language Models

The Release We introduce Jais, a new state-of-the-art Arabic-centric large language model (LLM). Jais achieves the world’s best performance for an open-source Arabic LLM while matching performance with English LLMs of similar size, despite having been trained on substantially less data. We ...

The Multilingual Software Engineer: Why “Bonjour, World” Beats Just “Hello, World”

“Hello, World!” Ah, the sweet, comforting phrase that has held the hands of novice coders as they took their first trembling steps into the world of software engineering. But have you ever paused to wonder, what if it was “Hallo, Welt!” or “Bonjour, Monde!” instea...