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Facebook's focus on unsupervised machine learning is a huge plus for under-resourced languages. They had a similar article for unsupervised machine translation[1] before, and I can see how it'll open doors for many African languages.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2018/08/31/ai-research/unsupervis...

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Not only that but it's also great for the English models as well. Many models are trained using the libre speech dataset with 960h of labeled audio.

What if you trained with 960000 hours instead??

Labeled data is easy to come by in popular language though. Just get an Audible subscription.

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