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Successful leverage of AI can propel advancement in a range of sectors from healthcare to financial resilience. Discover what is key to making this progress inclusive in the African context, with the insights from our AI for Development roundtable held at MWC Kigali 2023.
“If people like us, the new generation, do not learn this language and do not write or speak this language, a lot of the things will be missed. Within a few generations the language will disappear (...)
Mozilla Common Voice is a not-for-profit platform that is keeping hundreds of languages all around the world alive through crowdsourcing technology.
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 ...