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TRUE, BUTSelf-Marked

Google wrote the benchmark.

“Google DeepMind says SL2T is the most capable sign language translation model to date, scoring 70 BLEURT zero-shot on FLEURS-ASL, significantly higher than any previously reported score, and ships it as sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11”

Google DeepMind (launch blog), 12 August 2026

Recorded 14 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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5 receipts: 2 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 2 add context. 4 figures on the record, 1 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Supports the claimdeepmind.google ↗

    SL2T is the most capable sign language translation model to date according to key benchmarks like FLEURS-ASL (sd-test).

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  2. 2Supports the claimdeepmind.google ↗

    SL2T achieves a remarkable zero-shot score of 70 BLEURT, which is significantly higher than any previously reported score.

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  3. 3Contradicts the claimdeepmind.google ↗

    only these geometric coordinates are sent to the server for translation, allowing the original video to be discarded immediately

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  4. 4Contextsiliconangle.com ↗

    It then sends the coordinates of these locations to its cloud-based server, avoiding the need to upload any actual video, making it faster and more secure for users.

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  5. 5Contextarxiv.org ↗

    we introduce FLEURS-ASL, an extension of the multiway parallel benchmarks FLORES (for text) and FLEURS (for speech) to support their first sign language (as video), American Sign Language, translated by 5 Certified Deaf Interpreters

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