{"id":482793,"date":"2023-03-08T05:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T03:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=482793"},"modified":"2023-03-08T05:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T03:50:04","slug":"googles-universal-speech-model-a-critical-first-step-towards-1000-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/482793-googles-universal-speech-model-a-critical-first-step-towards-1000-languages.html","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Universal Speech Model a “critical first step” towards 1,000 languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has taken its first step towards bringing its 1,000 Languages Initiative to fruition, with the company sharing details<\/a><\/strong> on its Universal Speech Model (USM).<\/p>\n

Google describes the USM as “a critical first step” towards supporting 1,000 languages. The company announced the 1,000 Languages Initiative in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Through the initiative, Google aims to build a machine learning model to support 1,000 of the world’s most-spoken languages.<\/p>\n

The tech giant says USM is a family of speech models with two billion parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text.<\/p>\n

It spans over 300 languages and is currently used for closed YouTube captions.<\/p>\n

“[USM] can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) not only on widely-spoken languages like English and Mandarin, but also on under-resourced languages like Amharic, Cebuano, Assamese, and Azerbaijani to name a few,” says Google.<\/p>\n

The tech giant says USM currently supports more than 100 languages and will serve as the foundation to build on which to build a more comprehensive system.<\/p>\n

“We believe USM’s base model architecture and training pipeline comprise a foundation on which we can build to expand speech modelling to the next 1,000 languages,” the company says.<\/p>\n

It is not entirely clear how Google plans to use the technology. However, one use could be in augmented reality glasses for real-time translations.<\/p>\n

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Now read: OpenAI now selling ChatGPT integration to businesses<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Universal Speech Model will serve as the foundation for Google’s 1,000 Languages Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":465301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,167,84211,22845,84785],"class_list":["post-482793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-google","tag-language-models","tag-machine-learning","tag-universal-speech-model-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482913,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482793\/revisions\/482913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}