JOURNAL

Week 11, 2023

Facebook now translates Urdu written in English characters back into Urdu script, even when the romanisation is not a clean 1:1 map to the original pronunciation.

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Noticed that Facebook can now translate cross-language. You could write the Urdu language in English text, and yet they can detect and translate that pretty well.

The line above is Urdu, written with English characters.

This is a rather insanely good translation. Considering the fact that some wording on the English is not 1:1 map to the Urdu pronunciation either (I am not an expert but I can guess that pori should have been written as puuri or puri, or that hy should have been hai, etc).

This is rocket science.