Google AI and ML translation services are helping health officials communicate with people in languages they understand to disseminate the Covid-19 i

Google machine translation helping disseminate COVID-19 information

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2020-07-12 06:23:10

Google AI and ML translation services are helping health officials communicate with people in languages they understand to disseminate the Covid-19 information, and it means reaching 51 million migrants in at least 350 languages in the US alone.

San Francisco: Google AI and ML translation services are helping health officials communicate with people in languages they understand to disseminate the Covid-19 information, and it means reaching 51 million migrants in at least 350 languages in the US alone.

However, organisations from health departments to government agencies are struggling to keep up with the high volume of rapidly-changing content and lack the resources to translate the Covid-19 related content into the needed languages.

"Although not intended to fully replace human translators, it can provide value when immediate translations are needed for a wide variety of languages," said Google.

Many popular browsers offer translation capabilities, which are either built in (Chrome) or require installing an add-on or extension (Microsoft Edge or Firefox).