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May 30, 2021 Despite speech increasingly becoming one of the main ways people interact with devices, voice technology remains largely closed off to Africa’s languages, accents, and speech patterns. Case in point: The world’s most popular voice assistants, Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, still don’t support any African languages. The continent has more than 1,000 languages. Common Voice, a crowdsourcing project started by the Mozilla Foundation in 2017, has been addressing this by inviting speakers of African languages to donate their voices to a free and publicly available dataset ...

Mozilla expands effort to bring Kiswahili to voice assistants across six African countries ZDNet 2 hrs ago © Mozilla Participants in the Common Voice project work to add their voices during an event in Kigali.  Devices and tools activated through speaking will soon be the primary way people interact with technology, yet none of the main voice assistants, including Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google Assistant, support a single native African language.  Popular Searches Mozilla has sought to address this problem through the Common Voice project, which is now working to expand voice ...

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.