Meta AI powers spoken-only language translation

After plans to break physical barriers with his metaverse initiative, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans for another globe-spanning artificial intelligence (AI) project earlier this year, this time a universal translation tool unlike any other. At the same time, the company that made itself famous (and notorious) for its social media networks also introduced another AI-powered tool, a virtual assistant. Both of these intelligent applications were intended to have practical use cases in Zuckerberg's metaverse, those were their intended uses but they will also have wider business applications that Meta is all too aware of. AI virtual assistants, of course, are already in wider use by organizations as chatbots to handle basic customer requests and interactions across a variety of digital services– including Meta's own popular platforms like Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp Business. The other, less well-known AI use case(s) is the language and translation exercises that provide alternatives to relying on human translators to provide accurate, expert-quality translations in real-time.