Meta AI + Google AI create a unified model for understanding all human languages. In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy,…

Meta AI + Google AI create a unified model for understanding all human languages.
In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy, but a purely engineering challenge.

XLS-R is a neural network for speech recognition, language detection and translation. It uses 2 billion parameters and nearly half a million hours of public available speech audio in 128 languages, nearly 10 times more than the previous Facebook system. The result is already impressive - a decrease in the error rate by an average of 14-34%.

The business goal of the planned breakthrough:
• The final solution for the simultaneous translation of human speech using mobile gadgets (the dream of science fiction writers of the 20th century)
• Voice communication of human-machine entities in the virtual environments (Metaverse, science fiction writers did not have enough imagination for that, but BigTech has)