Facebook has started distributing a new tool that will allow you to publish texts in different languages.
According to Facebook, about 50 percent of its community speaks a language other than English — and most of them don’t speak each other’s native tongue. To help these people get more information and discuss events, it’s developed its own instant text translation tool.
The tool is already available on Pages, and is now rolling out to individual users. Using machine learning, it will simply read your original post and translate it into any language you choose.
If you don't like the translation, you can edit the translated text. If you want to use some colloquial terms or add more information, you can do so.
Facebook uses machine learning for this specific tool to “teach” its algorithms. So the more you use the translation tool, the better it will become.
Watch the presentation video:
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Published by Faceboοk Engineering on Friday, July 1, 2016
