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Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
2023
Facebook

Carbyne Live Audio Translation

Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime

Name Reclaim

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

Canada
campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards, Asian and Pacific Islander

Common Voice

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA
2023 Webby Awards
https://hyper.audio/ActiveOpen-source

Hyperaudio

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

Tarjimly

A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.

Mountain View, CA, USA
2017
refugees, migration, immigration, apps

CV Project

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

Trento
apps

Weglot

Translate your website - Multilingual for WordPress, Shopify and more

extensions

Localize JS

Easily translate dynamic websites & apps while eliminating tedious file transfers from your localization workflow.