Google’s AI Photos app uses crowdsourcing to protect endangered languages


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Google has a new way Save endangered languages: Provides culture with the AI ​​tools needed to protect the language itself.The company launched Woolaroo, Open source photo translation web app (also available from Google Arts & Culture) Android And iOS) Use machine learning and image recognition to protect endangered languages. By simply pointing the smartphone’s camera at the object, the user can have the AI ​​recognize it and explain it in a specific language with pronunciation. This can be especially important for languages ​​that don’t have specific words to describe modern concepts such as phones and computers. The app initially offers a search for 10 languages ​​around the world, including Maori, Yiddish, and Australian indigenous Yuganbe. But you wouldn’t be surprised if it expanded rapidly.UNESCO Decision Of the estimated 6,000 languages ​​in the world, “at least” 2,572 face at least some danger.