because they know they have a feature in the team. so that does fill out as a division that curious to see how that plays out in the field. and obviously with all of this issue around the process than the arm band. now, you've had some other role in their minds as well. the last of japan because they play by footballs, mckeathan, i used to play good football and get the result. they need fundamentals right there . don't play poorly play. well, of course, a lot of distractions in this world cup jonathan harding for d. w. sports. thanks very much. we're gonna leave it there for now. up next is our technology show shift to stay tuned for that. and we'll see here, back at the top of the old her, i'm just kinda, i work that tag and in the end is a me, you are not a lot us to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this? with the smugglers, with lyons the what's your story. ready ready i

feel like i was women, especially and victims of violence in labs and take part and send us your story. we are trying always to understand this new culture. so you are not the visitor, not the guests. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information 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 left out.

ah, the tires problem, we house with voice systems integrated into a mobile devices and our computers is that really if they don't understand oh 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 i can 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. these and people actually benefit from being able to speak to their device and getting back that information if they country don't understand. and some of it takes that big. but 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 it up with an aim off, democratizing voice and diversify the voice, say thus voice space. the purpose was actually to create open source data sets that people could download and build products from. and be community driven to have

diverse sets of languages available on the on nice 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 did 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 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've sat down with linguists from kenya, tanzania, and the g r. c, which that 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 rwanda 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 didn't bassa chat? what that we? what shorts building in rwanda. this is a coven, 19 response. and check what that house people who wanted to actually get information around the pandemic. in king, i wonder french and english am having access to information and the 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 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, does 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 in no one to understand samson bid that you need to 1st understand it in your my that time and then you can get it better. luc 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 textile as gifted and for speech recognition me, we need to collect data from lots of people. how could english author and get all sorts of icelandic into the database? sort of google key? oh paul, our school. no, 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 to go eat 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 develop to really reach out and include and, and propagate a language or anything for a minority group. 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 of nava by the seminar. i just come home i just found 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. 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 cap. oh she, she, whose parents can't read or write and had had trouble using a smartphone seems as a meal plug committee, people smuggle to one steve jobs, put out the 1st smartphone with the promise that it would be intelligent. so that there would be applications to make life easier for everyone. will i still have

yourselves with her mail upon africa. the problem is with written commands in common, decrease that you're likely to live. not everyone can read and write the black mold schemes. i want to say to fair walk with it, so why not make their lives easier by using spoken commands said do little to pick one apollo for to deliver after all, speeches, 3 times faster than writing. well, give up a whole it look what you got. people to the phone works 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 sent text messages for transfer money on that it wasn't it. i love that lease. if you can also change the language with up there 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 it here. we validate and then i start decide which is a i will say, hello lou, you've already went online and oh, respond anesha woman, what does she rekey? i bid miss savage jamal leafy. the company says several 1000 phones hold on the 1st few months. but not only is its voice function important to customers, it also strengthens national consciousness. yes, we do design so much. no, so my saw the design and i liked it. they said 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 variance who must take up this initiative initiative 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 up. what is all music? went up to google dot com because we don't need to teach people to read and write e key or not because we just need to take them as they are and bring them in to the economy. it don't stop. so that brings economic growth to do because now you can simply speak to send money or to do businesses below resembled activity. you can just speak and understand is super where before you needed to read and write me, i need to make 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 new router to be ah

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