Tag Archives: Languages

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed.  Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update …

The Language Velocity Field method helps understand the dispersion of language. Credit: Nature Communication Journal / CC BY 4.0 The groundbreaking Language Velocity Field (LVF) method is helping researchers trace dispersion patterns of languages, including Greek, across the world. The spatial evolution of languages can help deepen our understanding of people diffusion and cultural spread. The language velocity field estimation …

Global distribution of high mean sonority indexes (MSIs) across 9,179 language varieties from the ASJP database. Color of dots represents the MSI of the language, with redder dots indicating higher and bluer dots indicating lower indices. The fill color of land areas represents the mean annual temperature. Image credit: Wang et al., 2023. In the icy tundra of Siberia, people …