Google Completes ‘critical First Step’ Toward Building 1,000-language Ai Model

Google recently announced their 1,000 Languages Initiative, a machine learning model that aims to bring inclusivity to billions of people around the globe by making it easier to access one thousand most spoken languages. The Universal Speech Model (USM) is a family of speech models that includes two billion parameters, trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text. Google plans to unveil more than 20 products featuring AI capabilities at their annual I/O event in May this year.