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Facebook’s communications platform Messenger will now be offering automatic translation services (it is optional) from the Spanish language to English (or vice versa) for all its users based in the United States and in Mexico.
Dubbed as M Translations, the functionality had actually appeared first at this year’s F8 conference hosted by the world’s biggest social media brand back in May. Back then, Facebook had showcased M Translations as one of several new tools that business owners could take full advantage of in facilitating transactions with partners, vendors, or clients in Marketplace.
But beginning today, Facebook Messenger users in America and Mexico should be able to see a “Translate to English/Spanish” module pop up whenever another person sends them a message in either English or Spanish. Here is a quick rundown of what happens -- when the module pop up is tapped, M Translations will go about asking the user if he wants to be provided with automatic translation for all messages he gets from that particular person from there on. While it is true that the user will be required to opt into automatic translation for every chat thread, he also gets to enjoy the option of opting out anytime he likes (which could happen to users just learning the intricacies of the Spanish language).
One can probably argue that as of now, the M Translations feature is a bit limited in capability, but Facebook is actually planning to further expand the functionality to handle other languages so that it can also be rolled out to other countries, especially regions where quick translations could prove handy.
It was about seven years when Facebook had started to offer translation tools for News Feed posts and even comments. For a significant amount of time, the social media giant had to depend on Microsoft Bing’s translation feature. By 2016, however, the company finally decided to make full use of its own artificial intelligence (AI) text translation technology.
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Social media posts might be a bit easier to translate as compared to real time chat threads. This is partly because when people message their family or friends, they are more likely to use informal language and even slang. And there are some users who are quite fond of abbreviating words, or even typing so fast without ever worrying about accuracy. But with Facebook’s broad resources and technical wizardry, it should be able to narrow some of those gaps.
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