Facebook’s multilingual composer tool will then choose which version they publish to your friends, depending on their language settings.
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Facebook has started to test a new feature for its social network that allows users to create posts in multiple languages.
Facebook is using artificial intelligence to allow users to compose one post in multiple languages. Using machine learning, it simply reads your original post, then translates it to any language you select.
Of course, as anyone who has ever used translation software before knows, automatically generated translations aren’t always ideal.
To bridge this requisite, the social media giant has now made a decision to include a feature that will allow users to communicate with a global audience, even if you are unaware of a language other than your own.
The company will keep a track of individuals location and preferred language to automatically decide the language in which to display the post.
The new feature is also created to provide Facebook with valuable new data to help its translation software convert slang and other colloquial language from one language to another and will work for all permutations of 45 languages Facebook now translates. The issue is critical given that half of Facebook’s customer base doesn’t speak English.
Facebook has announced a new tool that aims to break down language barriers. After all, the more people that see their ads and posts, the more visibility the brand gains, the better it is for them and Facebook (which gets paid for ads).
An official Facebook announcement stated that, “People use Facebook to communicate and share in many different languages”.
For now, the multilingual composer is rolling out to a test group.
Facebook is going to launch a new software tool by which the we can see posts in different languages. The posts have received 70 million daily views, with 25 million views being in the one of the post’s secondary languages. So if their posts are mostly in Spanish, they’ll likely see the Spanish post instead of the English one. By opening this tool to people who speak less common languages, we’ll be able to build better machine translation systems.
Facebook’s multilingual composer now works for all 45 languages the social network can now translate.
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Facebook said it plans to use multilingual posts to improve its machine translation data.
