Facebook has rolled out a new tool that lets users translates posts into multiple languages. The social network is calling the tool as multilingual composer and it was first rolled out for Pages earlier this year. Now, it is expanded for individual people on Facebook.
The multilingual composer allows Page authors and users to compose a single post in multiple languages and viewers who speak one of those languages will see the post only in their preferred language. For example, if you write a post in English but publish it in Spanish, for example, any of your friends or followers who use Facebook in Spanish would see that Spanish translation of your post. The new composer, which will work for all permutations of the 45 languages Facebook currently translates.
Facebook says the multilingual composer is being used by around 5,000 Pages to post nearly 10,000 times per day on average. These posts receive 70 million daily views, and of these views, 25 million are viewed in one of the post’s secondary languages.
Facebook said in a blog post,
In fact, 50 percent of our community speaks a language other than English, and most people don’t speak each other’s languages. Given that, we’re always thinking about ways we can help remove language as a barrier to connecting on Facebook
In the past, Facebook’s translations have relied on Microsoft’s Bing, but now all translations are done in-house by Facebook’s self-built artificial intelligence. The social network says it plans to use multilingual posts to improve machine translation training data.
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