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		paulftw on Nov 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Found in translation: More accurate, fluent senten... Stupid question: when they say 8 languages including Chinese - do they mean Mandarin or Cantonese? Or is that the same thing (for them)?

bumblebeard on Nov 16, 2016 [–]

They mean Mandarin. There have been rumblings in the past that Cantonese support might be coming though.

schoen on Nov 16, 2016 | [–]

It might be a challenge for Google to find big corpora to train on because of the somewhat restricted contexts Written Cantonese has been used in (but more power to them if they can make it work!).

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