The feature is only available for desktops now
AB Wire
The Social Networking giant Facebook announced that its own developers have built a multilingual composer that enables users to compose a single post that will appear in multiple languages.
“People use Facebook to share information and ideas in many different languages, in fact, 50 per cent of our community speaks a language other than English and most people don’t speak each other’s languages, so we’re always thinking about ways we can help remove languages as a barrier to connecting on Facebook.” Facebook team wrote in a blog post.
The feature is only available for desktops now, but others can view the multilingual posts across all platforms. The user test has already started and currently it is being tested only among a small group of users.
Facebook said that the feature is already being used by 5,000 Facebook Pages which are specifically for businesses and brands, but will soon open testing to the broader social network.
The “multilingual composer, “as the feature is called, will allow the user to write a post in one language and then choose additional languages in which you would like it to be published.
The new feature is also designed to provide Facebook with valuable new data to help its translation software convert slang and other colloquial language from one language to another and will work for all permutations of 45 languages Facebook currently translates.
“The multilingual-post option that starts rolling out today was inspired by the fact that many people already write posts in multiple languages. But they had to either write multiple versions of a message in one post or creates separate posts-strategies that tend to reduce the chance anyone would respond,” Fazil Avan, who leads work on Facebook’s translation software, said.