Are you an active user of Social Networking Site ‘Facebook’? Then you have got good news from the tech giant. Facebook is providing a new feature to its users of posting in on Facebook in multiple languages using a new automatic translation feature.
Facebook is rolling out a ‘multilingual composer’, that allows users to compose a post in one language, and the same can be viewed by anyone in the language on which they use Facebook. For example, if you write a post in English and publish it in Spanish and any of your friends or followers who use Facebook in Spanish would see that Spanish translation of your post.
In a blog post on the Facebook developer forum, developers said “50% 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.”
This new tool will work for all the 45 languages supported by Facebook currently and began rolling out on July 1, 2016. This feature had already been rolled out to Pages earlier this year with about 5,000 pages having already tried it and their posts receive 70 million views daily.
Go to language preferences in your account settings and click ‘post in multiple languages’.
“This will not only help people communicate better across diverse groups that speak many languages, but will help train and improve our machine translation models as we gather new data in less common languages moving us closer to the vision of removing language barriers across Facebook,” the company said.
If you are well versed in the secondary language that you are posting in, you can check the translation before you publish a multilingual post. The factors that Facebook takes into account in determining which language to show you the post in are – your language preference, your location and your usual language for posts.