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It will soon be easier to see Facebook and Instagram posts in lesser-spoken global languages, but an expert suggests that to improve the tool Meta should talk to native speakers.

It will soon be easier to see Facebook and Instagram posts in 200 lesser-spoken languages around the world. 

Meta’s No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project announced in a paper published this month that they’ve scaled their original technology.

The project includes a dozen “low resource” European languages, like Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Irish, Lingurian, Bosnian, Icelandic and Welsh.

According to Meta, that’s a language that has less than one million sentences in data that can be used.

Experts say that to improve the service, Meta should consult with native speakers and language specialists as the tool still needs work.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/

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