AI is being used to improve the efficiency of Maori translation. Photo: ShutterstockEfforts to improve the reach of Māori language communications will benefit from a new partnership between Microsoft and Auckland-based AI translation pioneer Straker Translations, which will facilitate large-scale publication of Māori news and other content. Aiming to improve the efficiency of Māori translation, the partnership will tap the AI and human-based translation capabilities of Straker’s RAY platform – already used by over 10,000 clients in 20 countries – to augment automatic translation capabilities first introduced by Microsoft in late 2019. One recent Weglot study, for example, fed 168 different language segments into Microsoft Translator, Amazon Translate, DeepL, Google Cloud, and ModernMT and used human translators to evaluate the accuracy of their translations into six different languages. Italian was judged the hardest to translate and German the most accurate, with 145 of the 168 segments deemed ready to use without any human edits.

Source: Stuff October 20, 2022 01:11 UTC