Reddit Expands AI-Powered Translation to 35 Countries, Enhancing Global User Experience

Reddit is rolling out AI-powered translations to 35 countries

The new feature will allow for posts and comments to be automatically translated. As world wide as the web is, language barriers still often limit how much of a site people can explore. Well, Reddit is using AI in an attempt to lessen this issue. The company announced Redditors across more than 35 countries will soon be able to automatically translate their entire feeds. The tool first launched in France earlier this year. The machine learning-powered feature is now available in Brazil and Spain, where Redditors can click a translate icon displayed in the overflow menu. This move will translate their entire feed, including comments, into Portuguese and Spanish, respectively. The setting also allows people to post and comment in their language and have it auto-translated into the community's set language. The key here is that unlike platforms like Instagram, for instance, which require you to click translate for each post, Reddit is automating the process. Redditors can access this feature on the app, mobile browser or desktop. In the coming weeks Reddit will expand its translation feature to Germany, Italy, the Philippines and countries across Latin America. The platform will also be adding a banner on any translated posts and a quick button to see the original content -- helpful if a sentence gets a bit wonky in translation. Plus, Reddit is planning to roll out translated content on search engines.

Reddit Will Start Translating Posts and Comments Automatically

Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is leveraging the power of AI and machine translation to make its website readable in dozens of countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. This feature works across the Reddit ecosystem (mobile, apps, and desktop) and will enable users to auto-translate both posts and their replies into their language of choice, like a Babelfish from The Hitchhiker's Guide. You'll be able to post in your preferred language and, assuming it's supported by the system, will automatically be localized for whoever is reading it. That is, if you're living in Brazil and reading a post with replies in both English and Spanish, you won't have to translate each individual response, the entire thread (and all of Reddit for that matter) will appear in Portuguese. "Redditors in Brazil and Spain can now click the translate icon in the overflow menu in the top right corner of our apps to translate their entire Reddit feed -- including posts and comments -- into new language options," the company said in an announcement. Translated posts will be marked as such to avoid confusion and will offer you the option to read them in their original language as well. The company debuted this capability in May with auto-translate for French speakers. Reddit had previously introduced a similar translation feature, though that only worked on individual posts rather than throughout the site. The announcement comes seven months after the company went public. As a primarily English-language platform, Reddit seeks to grow its user base by making its existing content available to potential new posters around the world and the company has determined that the most effective way to do that is through machine translation. As of the announcement, Reddit now supports both Spanish and Portuguese. In the coming weeks, the feature will roll out to Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and countries throughout Latin America. Source: TechCrunch

Reddit Will Use AI to Expand Translation Services to 35 More Countries

Brazil and Spain users will be the first to get the feature after it previously launched in France. Reddit users in 35 additional countries soon will be able to read and respond to posts and comments in the language of their choosing. AI will auto-translate posts and comments in either direction with a new feature that will roll out in the coming weeks, the forum site announced Wednesday. The company says the translation and localization feature, which it tested earlier this year in France, is now available in Spain and Brazil and soon will spread to Germany, Italy, the Philippines and countries in Latin America. It will work on mobile and desktop browsers as well as Reddit's apps, allowing Redditors to click on a translate icon to convert their entire feed to a language they select. Reddit said in a post announcing the feature that responses to posts and comments will be auto-translated back to the language of the original community where it was posted. The company says "In the coming weeks," a banner will appear to inform users when a post has been translated and there'll be an option to see posts and comments in their original language. Reddit says it's also working on including translated content in search results. Earlier this year, Reddit entered a $60 million deal with Google to allow that company's AI models to train on user-generated content from Reddit. Statista estimates that Reddit will grow to about 53 million active US users per month by next year, up from 49 million as of the second quarter of 2024.

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Users will see their posts translated into their preferred language Language barriers remain one of the main problems we face when navigating the Internet. One of the most important forums on the web, Reddit, wants to address the issue using artificial intelligence. Soon, Reddit users who want to will be able to click on any post and translate it to their language instantly. This feature, which was launched in France earlier this year, is already available in Brazil and Spain, and is expected to expand to more than 35 countries. For now, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and other Latin American countries will also enjoy this new feature in the coming weeks, according to Engadget. This new feature will also allow users to post in their own language while the platform translates to the subforum's set language. Unlike other platforms, the feature runs automatically and can be accessed from the app or from the browser. Reddit has faced several controversies in recent times. One of them, specifically, has also been related to artificial intelligence. The platform signed an agreement with OpenAI that allowed Reddit content to be displayed in ChatGPT and similar products.

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Key Takeaways Reddit introduced a translation tool in France earlier this year. It is now expanding to over 35 countries. Live now in Brazil and Spain, the tool allows users to translate their entire Reddit feed, including posts and comments, into the language of their choice. Users can now contribute in their preferred language, and Reddit will auto-translate it into the subreddit's native language. Arguably the most popular community-driven discussion platform, Reddit, went public in March this year, and since then we've seen it focus on enhancing the user interaction experience. The social network forum giant sped up comment loading, paired with a shortcut to quickly access a post's comment section on the platform's mobile app. We subsequently saw the platform introduce new policies to prevent companies from scraping its vast user-generated data to train their AI models, followed by interest-based strategically placed ads. Related Reddit wants its ads more targeted than Google's, but without the privacy trade-offs The experience is still hit-or-miss 1 A different Reddit feature, which was announced earlier this year but went under the radar for many, is a machine translation tool. The feature, which previously landed only in France, is now rolling out to redditors in more than 35 additional countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Reddit is English-dominated, hence the feature hasn't landed here. It essentially aims to break down the language barrier within posts in countries where English might not be the primary language -- with translations for native languages. The tool should now allow users to translate their entire Reddit feed, including posts and comments, into the language of their choice. Here's how the tool works Source: Reddit The new feature is already live in Brazil and Spain, and will roll out in Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and countries throughout Latin America "in the coming weeks." Additionally, the tool works regardless of your platform of choice, namely, the Reddit mobile web experience, the app, and on desktop. It's worth noting that the tool will only translate the Reddit page into the primary display language you've set as default. To use the feature, users in supported countries will be able to tap the overflow menu on the top right and find a translation option, as seen in the short GIF above. In the coming weeks, posts that have been translated will be clearly labeled with a banner, and users will have the option to view the original language if desired. Elsewhere, another key feature is that users will be able to contribute to a post in their preferred language, and the platform will automatically translate it into the subreddit's native language. A complete list of supported languages and countries for the inclusivity feature is yet to be published.