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When David Kouamé decided to improve his literacy in his mother tongue, he went to the city centre in Abidjan not to register for tutoring services, but to buy a mobile phone. Kouamé had heard about a new, locally developed and assembled smartphone with a voice control system that can understand…

The OpenG, a vocal assistant that responds to commands in local languages, improves accessibility for Africans who don't read or write

Let’s face it: if you’re reading this, chances are that you are receiving the dreaded voice messages more often than you would want. I like the romantic feeling behind voice messages on Instant Messaging platforms: you can feel the nuances of the sender’s voice, quickly deciphering their mood. However, as you start receiving voice messages more often, that romantic feeling will collapse under the weight of a stack of these:

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The models can produce accurate speech recognition and language understanding, as well as language translation and text-to-speech capabilities.

NVIDIA has invested $1.5 million into Mozilla's Common Voice project. Mozilla will use the money to hire people to improve the product further and to reach new communities and volunteers.