[kictanet] Mozilla working on kiswahili speech recognition

[Alice Munyua]

Thank you so much Ali.
As promised, there will be more, and also thinking through how we can work together again

> On May 26, 2021, at 09:36, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Very nice!
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>> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:48 PM Tony White via kictanet <kictanet at 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-voice-assistants-across-6-african-countries/
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>> Cheers,
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>> Tony White
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