Meta launches AI-powered speech translation model, to use it on WhatsApp, Facebook On November 2023

Meta has announced that it is releasing an AI model that can translate and transcribe speech in up to 100 languages. The model can be useful to communicate and understand information in language that people don’t know.

“Today we’re releasing SeamlessM4T, a new multimodal AI model that lets people who speak different languages communicate more effectively,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his Instagram Channel.

Zuckerberg said that the AI model can do speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, text-to-text translation and speech recognition for up to 100 languages.

The company plans to integrate the AI model in translation and transcription into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads.