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Donate your voice so Siri doesn’t just work for white men

26 July 2017

Voice assistants can struggle with accents outside their test base of white, male users. Mozilla wants samples to create systems that can handle diversity
Woman's hands doing sign language

Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text

2 June 2017

Translation devices are being put to work in places like banks to help deaf people talk to non-signers

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