Kudos to Mozilla! A step in the right direction. Language is a medium of communication, the wider it is spoken the wider we should spread the net of its accessibility. Of late we have seen Kiswahili being admitted as a recognised language in African Union circles <https://www.eac.int/press-releases/1513-au-partners-with-the-eac-to-promote-kiswahili-as-a-language-of-wider-communication-in-africa>, South Africa has introduced it in its curriculum <https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/kiswahili-goes-to-school-in-south-africa-1434586#:~:text=South%20Africa%20has%20become%20the,with%20French%2C%20German%20and%20Mandarin.> thus its important to have resources in and be able to develop more resources in the language. As we used to sing them days... Kiswahili kitukuzwe <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctqBHjbYxY> Can't wait for the day that I attend an online event and I can just roll off in Swa not worrying that others would float 😀 On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:49 PM Tony White via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hi All, An interesting development in speech recognition and text-to-speech for kiswahili:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-expands-effort-to-bring-kiswahili-to-v...
Cheers, -- Tony White
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