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know enough languages. some users are being left out. ah, the current problem we have with voice systems integrated into a mobile devices. and our computers is that really if 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 they fight 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 was little common voice projects is a project i was sit up with an aim off democratizing voice and every time i the voice say those 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 been validate these voice contributions. 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 read this phrase more than 75000 fallen tears 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 keith, swahili living in kenya. we sat down with the lists from kenya, tanzania, and the g r. c, which all countries back you said these are national language. and through working with them, we're beginning to understand what are the major accents that we should make sure we are able to recognize when we both ask a 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 is particularly exciting for me, has been bitten by a chat board that we work shorts building in rwanda. this is a coven, 19 response. and checkbook, that helps people who wanted to get information around endemic 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 a situation for to. and 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. with studying i t in english is a challenge for andrew nikki, from uganda. textbooks and writings are not offered in his native language lavonda . a new instant translator promises help. almost

everywhere you go in the panda 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 anyone to understand samson bit that you need to fasten the sandy to me. oh my that time and in yukon. did it better? luanda 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 one, dick would tolerate savoy euro jose, oh, it is vital to collect lots of data, wasn't texting as gifted and for speech recognition, me can we need to collect data from lots of people. how could english all through and get all sorts of icelandic into the database, sort of google t o fall our school not, we didn't use it to build speech recognition. if you need to foster, there will be more than one sort of speech recognition during the mother of a to plan. it tal couldn't if she had to go in 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 in 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.

this this phone was developed an ivory coast and uses voice commands for those who can't read or write as in love with him, not abolish them. on the other couple, my phone has many benefits because it speaks many local languages. i think that's why i say it's good. there are many different types of funds, but this one is different for some of the phone understands and speak 16 of the 60 or so language is spoken in ivory coast, including duleigh. so new pho and bay, it was developed by a long capital she, she, his parents can 3 to rise and had had trouble using a smartphone seems as a meal plug. committee buffalo, some smart one, steve jobs, put out the 1st smartphone with the promise that it would be intelligent. he saw

that there would be applications to make life easier for everyone. particular views, old male upon africa. the problem is with written commands, a monday creek that you're likely to live, not everyone can read and write the law schools always say to fair walk with it. so why not make their lives easier by using spoken and said do little dip. well, if i look at it to love after all, speeches 3 times faster than writing, well, i see about that whole it look, what would i particularly quit you? the phone worked with apps with a similar interface to apple, siri or amazon's. alexa. once a language is selected, users can give voice commands. for example, to make calls, send text messages for transfer money on you said it was a fuzzy le. let me see if you can also change the language. i suppose it's will up there several languages. layla. so here we will choose duleigh. you said again and

i system will confirm that we have selected it law by leads. i'll see that here. we validate and then i start this i v is a i will say, hello lou, give out equal my loan. and oh respond, and you so what does she re key? i bid miss savage, more leafy. the company says several 1000 phone sold in the 1st few months. but not only is its voice fine and important to customers. it also strengthens national consciousness. didn't design so much. no, so my 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 before that but to evolve. it takes capital booklet is equal and it is asked the ivory hands who must take up this initiative in city because it is

just the beginning, a dp i long capital she. she is convinced that this technology is the key to introducing ivory coast to the digital economy. and thus, driving the country's development school now called diesel music, one upper boot, that copy to see that we don't need to teach people to read and write it on up because we just need to take them as they are and bring them into the economy. it don't stop stuff, it brings economic growth on ticker. did because now you can simply speak to send money or to do businesses well, resume with activity. you can just speak and understand is super where before you needed to read and write me i li, 3 that makes life easier. and in a state like ivory coast. so we need everybody's involvement for the country to function. oh wow. okay. is it a loopy?

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