Why does Facebook automatically translate?

To help make life easier for you, Facebook will, by default, translate their posts for you. This is great if you don’t speak a word of French, or Swedish, or whatever language your friend is posting in, but if you do the translations are often merely okay.

How do I get see translation on Facebook?

Go to the post or comment you want to translate. Tap See Translation below the post or comment. If you don’t see translations options below a post or comment written in another language, make sure that translation options are turned on for that language. Was this helpful?

How do I hide translation on Facebook?

In the top right of Facebook, tap . Scroll down and tap Settings. Tap Language and Region below Preferences. Tap Languages you don’t want to be offered translations for.

Why has Facebook removed the translation feature?

Facebook’s Thai to English auto-translation feature on posts and comments has been taken down due to “technical issues,” the social media company’s communications manager for Thailand and Laos wrote in a statement to The Thaiger.

Does Facebook Messenger automatically translate?

Facebook Messenger can now automatically translate messages between Spanish and English as part of a new M Translation feature that was first announced at F8 earlier this year, via Engadget. Then, Messenger’s M bot will pop up and offer to immediately translate it.

How do I stop Facebook Messenger from translating?

icon on the right, and select Translate. To see the original text, hover the cursor over the translated message, click the icon > Untranslate.

What translation service does Facebook use?

And 800 million users, almost half of all Facebook users, see translations each month. That’s all based on Facebook’s own machine learning translation system. In 2011 it started working with Microsoft Bing to power translations, but has since bene working to transition to its own system.

How do I turn on automatic translation on Facebook?

In the top right of Facebook, tap . Scroll down and tap Settings. Tap Language and Region below Preferences. Tap Language you’d like to have posts translated into.

How do I turn off automatic translation on Messenger?

Auto-translation is enabled on a per-conversation basis, and all messages are shown in both the original language and translated version. You can opt-out of the feature at any time via the M Settings menu in Messenger, accessible by tapping your profile picture in the top-left corner of the app.

How accurate is Facebook translation?

Translations produced by the model were also assessed by humans, who scored it as around 90 per cent accurate. Facebook’s system was trained on a data set of 7.5 billion sentence pairs gathered from the web across 100 languages, though not all the languages had an equal number of sentence pairs.

How do I enable translation in Facebook Messenger?

It was actually easy to re-enable the option in Facebook. In Facebook, click on the triangle to the right of the padlock. Click on “Settings” in the drop-down menu. Click on “Language” on the left. Click on “Edit” next to “Which languages do you understand?”. Remove any languages that you still want to get a “See translation” option for.

How do I change the language of a post on Facebook?

Click on “Settings” in the drop-down menu. Click on “Language” on the left. Click on “Edit” next to “Which languages do you understand?”. Remove any languages that you still want to get a “See translation” option for. Click “Save changes”. Now view a Facebook post in that language and you should see the “See translation” option displayed below it

Is there a way to see Japanese translations on Facebook?

I used to get a “See translation” link when browsing Facebook posts of my Japanese friends, but at some point that went away. I would still see it offered on languages such as Dutch, Swedish or Spanish though.