The feature actually started rolling out to Pages earlier this year, allowing companies and businesses to interact with their customers in multiple languages. Now, however, you’ll be able to use the new feature, too.
When you use the feature, you’ll be able to choose which languages the post shows up in. For example, you can write the post in English, then set it to translate into Spanish, too. English speakers will only see the post in English, and Spanish speakers will see it in Spanish.
In the past, Facebook’s translations have relied on Microsoft’s Bing, but now all translations are done in-house by
“These machine translations are generated by machine-learning models trained on hundreds of thousands or millions of translations from one language to the other,” wrote Facebook’s Necip Fazil Ayan, Don Husa, and Shawn Mei in a blog post. This is the same system that generates translations in other places on
Of course, not everyone can access the feature just yet — Facebook is still testing it. If, however, you’ve been chosen to be a part of the test, you can turn the feature on by going to the Language section of Settings.
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