There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?
There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?
By sheer coincidence, I just came across a thread on Reddit about a system that’s been invented for training AI speech models on languages when there’s not enough actual recorded examples to serve as training data. Speech Instruction Training Without Speech for Low Resource Languages. ArXiv link to the paper for those who want to bypass Reddit, though the reddit link also has links to the actual models and code used.
Relevant to this thread.