Facebook on Friday began testing a
translation tool that will automatically let posts be displayed in languages
users prefer.
The leading social network first
made the "multilingual composer" tool available earlier this year for
use on pages representing companies, brands, groups and celebrities through its
Pages service.
Now it will be available to general
users.
"Page authors and other people
on Facebook can compose a single post in multiple languages, and the viewers
who speak one of those languages will see the post in their preferred language
only—allowing people to more easily interact with their diverse
audiences," the company said.
Half of Facebook's more than 1.5
billion users worldwide speaks a language other than English, the
California-based social network says.
Among factors Facebook will use to
determine which language to use for posts include locales designated in account
settings and which languages user routinely use for their posts.
The social network plans to use
multilingual posts to improve machine translation capabilities with the aim of
one day removing language barriers across the social network.
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