Efforts are ongoing to make AI technology more accessible to everyone through collaboration and responsible approaches.
An example of this is the collaboration with the Real Academia Española (RAE) in the Lengua Española e Inteligencia Artificial (LEIA) project. The RAE initiated this project four years ago to enhance the use of the Spanish language in technological contexts. The invitation was extended to tech companies with a commitment to improving the use of Spanish in technological arenas, ultimately benefiting the 590 million Spanish speakers worldwide and elevating the presence of the Spanish language.
Today, two significant developments in this project are being announced: the integration of the lexical repertoire of the RAE’s Dictionary of the Spanish Language into Gboard, Google’s keyboard app, and the integration of the Spanish Language Dictionary of the Royal Academy into Search.
Enhanced Spanish in Gboard
The incorporation of the RAE lexicon as a source for Gboard’s AI language models has resulted in notable improvements. This includes faster autocorrections for words such as García, Rodríguez, Coruña, Nicaragua, or Jaén, as well as words with accents like música, río, frío, or vehículo. It has also facilitated better word recommendations, smoother transitions between English and Spanish when typing, and reduced biases.
Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of new words such as “ibuprofeno,” “criptomonedas,” “SMS,” and “tempura” have been integrated into the Gboard dictionary for Android.
