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Google releases WAXAL – massive open resource for African languages
Google Research has launched WAXAL, a large open source resource for speech recognition and language technology aimed at African languages. The resource contains datasets, models and tools designed to improve AI support for languages that have traditionally been underrepresented in global AI research.
WHY IT MATTERS
This closes the massive gap in AI capability between high-resource languages and African languages, and enables local developers to build speech-based AI solutions that work for millions of people who do not speak English or other major Western languages.
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