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Voices of Mzansi - Making all official languages of South Africa AI-ready: translating the Common-Voice interface & enabling Open-source text-to-speech dataset collection

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natural language processing

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dataset
The "Voices of Mzansi" project aimed to get South Africa's languages launched on the Mozilla Common Voice platform. To achieve this aim the Common Voice website had to be translated from English into the other official languages and at least 5 000 sentences had to be collected… Notes / challenges: Fair Forward portfolio. Dataset

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