Here is what’s happening:
Facebook has open-sourced its state-of-the-art MT model, M2M-100. The Model claims to support symmetric translation across 100 languages (that is, 9,900 language pairs) — without relying on English as a pivot.
Microsoft releases Custom NMT V2, claiming another step closer to the human parity. You can re-train existing models for free until Jan. 31, 2021.
Microsoft has announced Auto mode is now available on the Microsoft Translator app for Android.
Amazon gives us an early holiday gift— Active Custom Translation.
This month brought a robust offering of new language pairs added by MT providers:
Tecent:
en↔ar ; en↔hi
Prompt:
en↔bn ; en↔fa ; en↔ms ; ru↔bn ; ru↔fa ; ru↔ms ; de→nl ; nl→de ; en→nl ; nl→en ; ru→nl ; nl→ru
Systran PNMT:
de→zh ; es→zh ; ja→de ; ja→es ; ja→ko ; lv→en
Amazon adds 16 new languages:
ca: Catalan — català
cy: Welsh — Cymraeg
gu: Gujarati — ગુજરાતી
ht: Haitian — Kreyòl ayisyen
hy: Armenian — Հայերեն
is: Icelandic — Íslenska
kk: Kazakh — қазақ тілі
kn: Kannada — ಕನ್ನಡ
lt: Lithuanian — lietuvių kalba
mk: Macedonian — македонски јазик
ml: Malayalam — മലയാളം
mn: Mongolian — Монгол хэл
mt: Maltese — Malti
si: Sinhala, Sinhalese — සිංහල