Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) announced an AI model that can transcribe and translate nearly 100 languages.

SeamlessM4T is the company’s first multimodal and multilingual AI translation model that allows people to communicate through speech and text across different languages.

It supports various functions such as speech recognition, speech-to-text translation, speech-to-speech translation, text-to-text translation, and text-to-speech translation.

Meta said it is publicly releasing SeamlessM4T under a research license to allow researchers and developers to build on its work while it is also releasing the metadata of SeamlessAlign.

Meta described its new model as a “significant step forward” in improving and expanding existing speech-to-speech and speech-to-text systems.

“Compared to approaches using separate models, SeamlessM4T’s single system approach reduces errors and delays, increasing the efficiency and quality of the translation process,” they said.