102 Languages, One Model: The Multimodal AI Breakthrough You Need to Know
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PaLM 2 XXS is used to create a multi-modal dual encoder system matching speech and text across languages. It converts speech to discrete tokens and extends the language model's embedding layer for both text and audio. Despite training on 21 languages, it matches speech and text in 102 languages, outperforming previous systems. The model shows cross-lingual matching capabilities, improvable with machine translation data.
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