Meta is adding all sorts of AI to WhatsApp, but if there’s one new feature I’m looking forward to, it’s simultaneous translationWe knew this was on the way last week, and now we have more data on how it will work.

Translation will come to WhatsApp and everyoneafter a handful of mobile phones like the Google Pixel or the latest Samsung Galaxy could achieve something similar. It will help us converse with people who speak other languages ​​without anyone having to use an interpreter.

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This WhatsApp innovation is very interesting because it will allow you to chat with people from all over the world, even if you do not speak the same language. Everyone writes in their own language and WhatsApp takes care of translations. And in real time, without you having to do anything.

We already knew that the translation technology was borrowed from Google and this we will need to download language packs To WhatsApp. These packages take up as little as 100MB and allow translation to be done over the phone without sending our conversations to Google or Meta servers. This is important because WhatsApp ensures that our conversations remain on WhatsApp.

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What we needed to see was the translation itself that WaBetaIno showed us. Here Meta didn’t get carried away and would reuse the same style that he applied on Instagram or Facebook: will display translated text and under a new label: “Translated.” It’s unclear whether we’ll be able to see the original message without having to turn off chat translation entirely.

WaBetaInfo also explains which languages ​​WhatsApp’s real-time translation will be available in at launch: Spanish, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Hindi. In principle, it seems that messages you receive will be translated, not messages you send. In such a case, it will be the responsibility of the sender to enable message translation.

Real time translation can be very useful when travelingAs communicating with businesses via WhatsApp has become increasingly common, sometimes we can’t understand the language. WhatsApp will automatically translate without you having to copy and paste into Google Translate or similar.

via | WaBetaInfo

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