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Siri and Alexa still don’t support African languages

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submitted about 5 years ago by taya

Siri and Alexa still don’t support African languages

submitted about 5 years ago by taya

Siri and Alexa still don’t support African languages
  • Voice technology is not supporting Africa's diverse languages, with major assistants like Siri and Alexa lacking any African language options.
  • To address this, the Mozilla Foundation's Common Voice project is collecting voice data from African speakers to help develop voice recognition technology for underserved communities, recently expanding to include Swahili.
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