, Google shared more information about the Universal Speech Model , a system Google describes as a “critical first step” in realizing its goals.supporting 1,000 of the world’s most-spoken languages while also revealing its USM model. Google describes USM as “a family of state-of-the-art speech models” with 2 billion parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences across over 300 languages.
Right now, Google says USM supports over 100 languages and will serve as the “foundation” to build an even more expansive system. Meta’s
Hopefully they will not open source it like they did LaMda
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Google loving this color scheme. also, we badly need a better translator for Twitter, esp in Arabic. suggestion: contextual search + all language support.