Big Tech Won’t Revitalize Indigenous Languages w/ Keoni Mahelona
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Future of Maori Language Learning
We have thousands of hours of high quality Maori data about, you know, not just sort of voice data in terms of training speech models, et cetera. And we're still doing sort of regional television programming and live streaming important community events next week. In addition to all that, we've got eight A 100s - four with 80 gigs and four with 40 gigs sitting in this very derelict, musky building in Kaitaya training machine learning models. We can help people improve their pronunciation to help bring back the native sound because through colonization, English sound has been leaking its way into today's indigenous languages.
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