As Microsoft and Google butt heads over whose AI chatbot is best, that isn’t the one use for machine studying and language fashions. Together with rumored plans to point out off greater than 20 merchandise powered by synthetic intelligence throughout its annual I/O occasion this yr, Google’s progressing towards its purpose of constructing an AI language mannequin that helps 1,000 totally different languages. In an replace posted on Monday, Google shared extra details about the Common Speech Mannequin (USM), a system Google describes as a “essential first step” in realizing its objectives.
Final November, the corporate introduced its plans to create a language mannequin supporting 1,000 of the world’s most-spoken languages whereas additionally revealing its USM mannequin. Google describes USM as “a household of state-of-the-art speech fashions” with 2 billion parameters skilled on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences throughout over 300 languages.
USM, which YouTube already makes use of to generate closed captions, additionally helps automated speech recognition (ASR). This routinely detects and interprets languages, together with English, Mandarin, Amharic, Cebuano, Assamese, and extra.
