Sandy Ritchie

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[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

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[iseeaswell꩜bʂky @iseeaswell]

Google Translate now as Inuktut (Latin and Syllabics), Crimean Tatar (Latin script), Santali (Ol Chiki), Tshiluba, and French (Canada)!

[Partha Talukdar @partha_p_t]

Exciting opportunity in the Languages team at @GoogleDeepMind India to advance LLM frontiers and bring their benefits to a lot more people!

Get in touch for any queries. I shall also be at @aclmeeting next week, happy to chat in person.

https://t.co/6Gj46TsaE7

[stephen moore @moorekwesi]

Title: Data and Metadata for Language Technologies Supporting Thousands of Languages
Speaker: Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie
Technical Program Manager, Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing, Google, USA
Date: 25.07.2024
Time: 2pm GMT. #nlptech

[iseeaswell꩜bʂky @iseeaswell]

Do you want to help improve translation for the 110 new Google Translate languages? One way is to help correct GATITOS 😼🧵

[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

Congrats to Isaac and all the team and volunteers who made launching 110 new languages on Google Translate look easy :D

[iseeaswell꩜bʂky @iseeaswell]

Excited to announce that 110 languages got added to Google Translate today! Time for context on these languages, especially the communities who helped a lot over the past few years, including Cantonese, NKo, and Faroese volunteers. Also, a 110-language youtube playlist. 🧵

[Daan van Esch @daanvanesch]

https://t.co/nkqkp6aYfL

[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

@fabricioicirbaf Thanks for the feedback, we are always looking to improve the quality of this new resource. If you know of specific shortcomings, please file an issue in GitHub, or get in touch with us!

[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

We're excited to announce the launch of LinguaMeta - unified language metadata for 7.5K+ languages. Thanks to our collaborators, and everyone who contributes to a better understanding of global linguistic diversity! Explore the repo here https://t.co/RxpifLP5av #lreccoling24

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

From the video:

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Improving speech & text understanding in 1,000 languages will make computing more effective for billions of people, and making information more accessible. Machine learning, and learning across different languages, can advance the capabilities of these systems for all.

[GC CUNY Linguistics @CUNY_GCLing]

Hi #LinguisticsTwitter, it's not too late to join us at the @GC_CUNY #computational #linguistics series this Wednesday (April 19@3pm EST) as we host @sandyfritchie on the reach and application of language technologies!

Zoom link at https://t.co/sAR7brfHvQ
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#langtech

[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

@Heymaykah @googleafrica We are always working to develop voice typing support for more languages, including languages of Nigeria and West Africa!

[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

@I_Heart_Digital @googleafrica Hi there, yes voice typing for Afrikaans is supported. In fact, with this launch, all 11 official languages of South Africa are now supported!

[Megan (Cummins) Grace @MeganCGrace1]

Congrats to the GBoard and Speech teams on this launch that brings voice typing to 9 additional African languages -- a multi-year effort leveraging multilingual modeling and high quality data from great regional partners #Google4Africa #voiceAI #voicefirst

[Google in Africa @googleafrica]

If you speak isiNdebele, isiXhosa, Kinyarwanda, Northern Sotho, Sesotho, SeSwati, Setswana
Tshivenda or Xitsonga, you can now use voice typing to dictate sms & emails in GBoard (Google keyboard).

Install Gboard, open an app to enter text, touch & hold 🎙️ & speak!
#Google4Africa

[Sandy Ritchie @sandyfritchie]

Voice typing for 9 more African languages now available on Gboard, Google's keyboard app. Many thanks to @SADiLaR_ZA @DUmuganda @mozilla for creating and open sourcing speech data which helped us to develop these systems! https://t.co/edCqJ1nfaU

[iseeaswell꩜bʂky @iseeaswell]

Do you want your language to be supported by NLP (like Google Translate) -- or left alone? Please fill this form if you have thoughts you'd like to share with me :) https://t.co/RHLu1UMzc5 1/4

[Google in Africa @googleafrica]

We're super excited to bring you a collaborative hack series in February! @ZindiAfrica has partnered with our linguists & NLP experts for an engaging NLP workshop, along with challenges so you can put your skills to the test! More details to follow! #ZindiGoogleASRHack #WAHack