<div dir="ltr"><div>Kudos to Mozilla! A step in the right direction.</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://www.eac.int/press-releases/1513-au-partners-with-the-eac-to-promote-kiswahili-as-a-language-of-wider-communication-in-africa">recognised language in African Union circles</a>, <a href="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.">South Africa has introduced it in its curriculum</a> thus its important to have resources in and be able to develop more resources in the language.</div><div><br></div><div>As we used to sing them days... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctqBHjbYxY">Kiswahili kitukuzwe</a></div><div><br>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 😀<br><br><br></div><br><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/efeed19ab1bad123bc804bba459d7c9018784e5c.png?u=4792897"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:49 PM Tony White via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
An interesting development in speech recognition and text-to-speech<br>
for kiswahili:<br>
<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-expands-effort-to-bring-kiswahili-to-voice-assistants-across-6-african-countries/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-expands-effort-to-bring-kiswahili-to-voice-assistants-across-6-african-countries/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Tony White<br>
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