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ah, ah, it does the internet represent all the world languages, language assistance, and online translators are becoming more and more important. but the systems don't

know enough languages. some users are being last out. ah, the term problem, we house with voice systems integrated into a mobile devices and our computers is that really it, they don't understand our african exits. most times we find that people have to adjust their accent in order for the system to actually understand what it is they say. and i chair studies the social impact of communication technologies and a special advisor for africa. innovation at mozilla with a growing number of voice apps for computers and phones. she has seen that some uses are excluded because for example, their voices have a different pitch with most of these technologies do not work well for marginalized groups. in particular women. so you find that your voice system may be able to respond better to the men

in the house. and then this leads to an aspect of exclusion. most of our devices are going to end up going into the voice direction and in a space of low digital literacy and low digital skills basin. people actually benefit from being able to speak to their device and getting back that information if they can't read or understand. and some of that takes that big bag with many apps are developed primarily for the u. s. market and are adapted to its languages and dialects. the big tech companies keep to their own datasets and neglect the need for diversity. janai chair wants to change that with. mm hm. is it a common voice? projects is a project i was sit up with an aim off democratizing voice and every time i the voice, say, dos, voice space. the purpose was actually to create open source data sets. people could

download and build products from and be community driven to have diverse sets of languages available on the on nicely chairs common voice team have built a platform where people can donate voice samples for datasets. the non profit mozilla foundation relies on community support. another aspect is that we encourage people who are anywhere in the world actually didn't validate these voice contribution. so if you don't want to have your voice on the platform, you can then go listen on to the platform and click. yes, it is correct. this person has re to this phrase more than 75000 volunteers so far have recorded more than 13000 hours of individual spoken sentences. with these open source data sets, developers can train their applications to recognize specific languages and dialects to foster more languages. can i chair works with

a team of scholars in different countries. one is cathlene c. mean you a machine learning fellow for kiswahili living in kenya. we've sat down with linguists from cannot tanzania, and the g r. c, which all countries back you said these are national language and through working with them were beginning to understand what are the major accents that we should make sure we are able to recognize when we both ask chip of mission tools after english, the 2nd largest dataset is in kenya, i wonder? spoken to marijuana and uganda. it is the basis for a coven 19 information that one of the technologies that we've seen come out of this project. and it's particularly exciting for me, has been bitten by a chat board that we work towards building in rwanda. this is a coven, 19 response. and chet bought that helps people who wanted to get information around

the pandemic interior, wanda, french and english am having access to information and in language you understand is so powerful for you to be able to be better place to respond to the situation with virgin i chair, these systems are important tools for helping people become well integrated digital citizens. ah, countries, people and cultures that are not the focus of international tech companies are under represented in the digital world. while the internet is speeding up the death of languages, it could also help stop it as these creative projects show you studying i t in english is a challenge for andrew nikki, from uganda textbooks and writing they're not offered in his native language. lavonda, a new instant translator promises help. almost everywhere you

go in your band, people, not gander, those walk i don't speak, it can hear it and understand what you really mean. so i think it is a great opportunity for us. as for students that like me, i think it's through the good because for a new one to and thus 10 samson bit that you need to fast send us anytime you my that time and in yukon. did it better. luke honda is one of 24 languages which google added to its automatic translator in 2022. the service now offers $133.00 languages. more than 15 percent of these are spoken in africa. it's a technical milestone to a i based 0 shot neural machine translation allows translation software to support languages that are little used and generally poorly documented on the internet

with huh. but many languages are still not supported by digital technologies, including icelandic. so in 2021, the university of reykjavik called on the public to input sentences into a database. this will be available free of charge to tech companies around the world. in the hope that iceland dick will be offered as a standard language on tick with tolerance of iowa. jose, oh, it is vital to collect lots of data and texting as gifted and for speech recognition me, we need to collect data from lots of people. how could amy griffith and get all sorts of icelandic into the database? sort of cookie, o fall our schooner. we didn't use it to build speech recognition. if you need to foster you, there will be more than one sort of speech recognition brain mama over the planet balcony. and i had to go with the cherokee,

the largest indigenous population in north america. want to use smartphones to prevent their language from dying out with cellphone maker, motorola. they have developed a smartphone interface in the syllabic language. for me, the fact that motorola and companies like them are utilizing the, the technology that they vella to really reach out and include and propagate a language or anything for a minority group. that is, to me, a way to demonstrate, you know, that corporations can care to close the digital divide. technology must also align with the local populations, needs and features and ivory coast company has developed a smartphone, controlled by voice commands in the local language.

with this phone was developed in ivory coast and use his voice commands for those who can't read or write i was in love with him, never bought a seminar. i just come home. i just phone has many benefits because it speaks many local languages either. that's why i say it's good. there are many different types of funds, but this one is different. gosh, i'm awful. i looked up the phone understands and speak 16 of the 60 years. so language is spoken in ivory coast, including duleigh and new foe and bay. it was developed by a long capital she, she whose parents can't read or write, and had had trouble using a smartphone seems as a meal plug committee buffalo, some smuggling to one. steve jobs put out the 1st smartphone with the promise that it would be intelligent in so that there would be applications to make life easier

for everyone to use. those would mail up an africa. the problem is with written commands, a common decrease that you're likely to live, not everyone can read and write more schools i want to say to fair walk with. so why not make their lives easier by using spoken and sir do. little dimple, guadalupe. i love you to love you after all, speeches 3 times faster than writing. well, just give up a whole it look what it up you could. could you? the phone works with apps with a similar interface to apple, siri or amazons. alexa, once a language is selected, users can give voice commands. for example, to make calls, send text messages for transfer money on that it wasn't it. i love that lease. if you can also change the language, i suppose a lot. there are several languages layla. so here we will choose duleigh,

he said gen and i system will confirm that we have selected it law already. i'll see to here we validate and then i start decide week is a i will say hello lou erotic one on line and oh, respond anesha woman, what does she re key? i bid, miss savage jamal lucy. the company says several 1000 found sold in the 1st few months, but not only is its voice function important to customers. it also strengthens national consciousness. yeah, we do design so much. no, so i saw the design and i liked it. they sat good. not only that, but every one as an i bore an should have one because it will evolve. somebody will you look, we will do it. you flip that, but to evolve, it takes capital booklet is equal and it is asked the i warrens who must take up

this initiative initiative because it is just the beginning, a dp along cap. oh she, she is convinced that this technology is the key to introducing ivory coast to the digital economy. thus, driving the country's development school or what is all music? one upper boot, i probably can see that we don't need to teach people to read and write the own up because we just need to take them as they are and bring them into the economy or to me, it don't stop stuff that brings economic growth to do because now you can simply speak to send money or to do businesses below resume with activity. you can just speak and understand is super where before you needed to read and write me, i li, 3 there makes life easier. and in a state like ivory coast, so we need everybody's involvement for the country to function. wow. go go. is it a new router to be?

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