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  Meta's AI translator can translate unwritten languages

  Technology | October 20, 2022 14:50 IST

  Meta has stated that its AI-powered speech-to-speech translation system will also support unwritten languages, as a part of company;s Universal Speech Translator (UST) project. The system has been designed for Hokkien, a primarily oral language of the Chinese diaspora, which lacks in writing form.

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  Google Search will let you translate the local news directly: Know how

  Technology | September 29, 2022 17:46 IST

  You'll be able to read authoritative reporting from journalists in the country, giving you a unique perspective of what's happening there," Google said in a blog post. To begin with, the feature will translate news results in French, German and Spanish into English on mobile and desktops.

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  Indian author Jeet Thayil on International Booker Prize judging panel

  World | July 11, 2019 16:38 IST

  Award-winning Indian author Jeet Thayil will make up a five-member judging panel for the 2020 International Booker Prize, the world's leading literary award for translated fiction announced in London on Thursday as it opened for submissions for the next year.

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  'Gandhi's Oustanding Leadership' gets translated into 18 languages

  World | September 19, 2014 12:20 IST

  Cairo: When millions of Egyptians took to the streets in nationwide mass rallies in 2011 to demand the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak's regime, their only weapon was chanting "selmia, selmia" (an Arabic word