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World Service,4 mins

Developing voice assistant tech for African languages

Digital Planet

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Speech smart assistants currently do not support any African language. But now Mozilla鈥檚 Common Voice project is building a dataset for Kiswahili, which is spoken by more than 100 million people in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. Chenai Chair, Special Advisor for Africa Innovation at the Mozilla Foundation and Remy Muhire, the Community Lead at Common Voice Kinyarwanda, tell us more about the work. (Image: Woman speaks into smartphone, Credit: Getty Images / PeopleImages.)

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