Facebook has been trumpeting M, the Messenger AI bot, for some time now. M is now able to offer users auto-fill suggestions for messages, quick and easy polls, and various other conversation starters. M is there to ease communication between Messenger users. To this end Facebook has been working on a rather impressive feature for M, that’ll help people of different cultures and different languages communicate more easily. M can now help Spanish and English speakers converse by translating each other’s conversations automatically.
Tech website wersm.com reported on Sunday that Facebook has started to make good on the translation promise it made at this year’s f8 conference. According to the report, M can distinguish whether the language being used is the same as the default language on the device of the recipient:
“It understands when a message is written in a language which is not the recipient’s default app language and offers to translate it. M will then show a pop-up that offers to immediately translate all messages from that specific recipient.”
This new feature is already available to Messenger users in the U.S. and Mexico. Although for now, it is only Spanish and English that M’s translations are working with, Facebook says new languages will be coming soon.
We think is an exciting announcement from Facebook, and we’d love to hear your thoughts, too.
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