I observed an instance where Hindi language written in English script was correctly translated by Facebook. This is impressive. See screenshot. I have also observed that the translation quality has improved dramatically. I know that Facebook used to rely on Bing translation. I assume they have their own, much improved model now. So did Facebook recently deploy this new model?
We're working hard!
Danyawad
The emojis got translated
We take our job very seriously ๐
When is Instagram going to have this feature?
It is so easy to train and deploy a seq to seq model with attention and all the bells and whistles. Of course it's better and a lot of it depends on the quality of data pairs. Also Facebook has been doing a lot of work on unsupervised machine translation so they could do a better job even with less data. I suspect it is just one of these things.
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