Synopsis In November last year, the company announced its plans to create a language model supporting 1,000 of the world's most-spoken languages while also revealing its USM model. Reuters The tech giant describes USM as a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2 billion parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages Google has shared more information about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a system the company describes as a "critical first step" in realising its goals, which is now moving closer toward its goal of building an AI language model that supports 1,000 different languages to beat ChatGPT . In November last year, the company announced its plans to create a language model supporting 1,000 of the world's most-spoken languages while also revealing its USM model. The tech giant describes USM as a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2 billion parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages. "USM, which is for use in YouTube (e. g. , for closed captions), can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) not only on widely spoken languages like English and Mandarin, but also on under-resourced languages like Amharic, Cebuano, Assamese, and Azerbaijani to name a few," Google said in a blogpost. Google currently claims that USM supports over 100 languages and will serve as the "foundation" for a much larger system. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories Meanwhile, Google is expected to introduce a host of AI features for its products in the near future, and among them, Gboard for Android is working to integrate the Imagen text-to-image generator. Don’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp. click here! Tuesday, 07 Mar, 2023 Experience Your Economic Times Newspaper, The Digital Way! Read Complete Print Edition » Front Page Pure Politics Companies ET Markets More India may Pull Plug on FAME II After Next Fiscal India is likely to discontinue the second phase of the ₹10,000 crore Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India or FAME II scheme after the next financial year, government officials familiar with deliberations said. Foxconn Reassures K’taka, Telangana on Investments Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn, has assured the governments of Karnataka and Telangana that it will work with them to further the expansion of its electronic manufacturing base in the country. Platform to Update DigiLocker Docs Via Aadhaar in Works The government is developing a platform to help citizens who store their documents in DigiLocker to auto-update their address and other demographic details across departments through Aadhaar, officials told ET. Read More News on google ai model google google chatgpt chatgpt google universal speech model google usm google language model usm USM automatic speech recognition google ai model chatgpt Stay on top of technology and startup news that matters. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest and must-read tech news, delivered straight to your inbox. . . . more less ETPrime stories of the day Ed-tech Key calls Unacademy has to make: focus on verticals or services; and unlocking value in acquisitions 8 mins read Strategy Starting up to growing up: Brand building in the pressure-cooker era of funding timelines 8 mins read Under the lens Axis MF front-running case: Sebi exposes ‘Jadugar’ but it must bring in systems to nab more Houdinis 12 mins read Subscribe to ETPrime.