Universal Language Translator 🌎

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In today’s update:

📰 News: Universal Language Translator

🛠️ Tools: Convert your books into audiobooks

🧠 Learn: Get started with OpenAI’s Whisper

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Universal Language Translator

What: Meta announced a new AI model called Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS), that converts text-to-speech and speech-to-text for more than 1,100 languages!

Why it matters:-

1. 11x more languages: Existing speech recognition models only cover ~100 languages. MMS does 11x better at 1,100+ languages!

2. Half the Error Rate: MMS achieves half the word error rate than OpenAI's Whisper (while covering 11x more languages)

3. Massive dataset: Labelled data for 1,100 languages Unlabelled data for nearly 4,000 languages!

4. Open source: Data and code is open source, but code's license is CC-BY-NC 4.0. You can share and adapt it, but not for commercial use.

Bigger picture : One single AI model can now write and speak more than 1,100 languages, which is 1/7th of all know spoken languages by humans! This improves recognition, synthesis and takes us one step closer to the science fiction of a universal language translator.

Meta is also pushing hard on open-sourcing foundation AI models, contributing way to more to Open Source than Open AI.

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• Auidie: A tool that converts your book to an audiobook, automatically and lets you choose your narrators voice.(link)

• Code Genius A tool that helps you code in a faster, easier, and more efficient way along with code suggestion, test case generation and good documentation.(link)

• Webscape: A copilot for the web that helps you save web pages, search documents, automate tasks and leverage AI interactions (link) 

• BetterLegal Assistant An AI extension to transform complicated legal jargon into clear and easy to understand terms (link)

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