Stories about Language from March, 2017
These Techies Want Your Phone to Speak to You in Swahili
Swahili is the second-most-widely-used language on the African continent. Yet automatic speech recognition isn’t commercially available in this language, denying many users the information they need.
Poly, the Platform That Wants to Teach You Every Language in the World
"We want to be more useful to the speakers of the language than the linguists, because the speakers are the ones who need it.”
