The government of Nunavut, a territory in northern Canada that speaks a variety of endangered Native Inuit languages, has reportedly already signed up for the program.

By Will McCurdy

Meta is partnering with world heritage organization UNESCO in a move that could lead to lesser-known Indigenous languages being incorporated into Meta AI, TechCrunch reports.

The Language Technology Partner Program is currently looking for contributors who can provide more than 10 hours of speech recordings with transcriptions. Contributors will also need to provide pre-translated sentences and a significant body of written work in the target language, which will then be used to build Meta’s AI systems.

The government of Nunavut, a territory in northern Canada that speaks a variety of endangered Native Inuit languages, has already signed up for the program as a partner, TechCrunch says.

Meta’s contributions to the translation and transcription space might not be as universally well-known as Google’s omnipresent Google Translate, but the company is devoting a lot of attention to it at the moment. In January, the tech giant’s AI research division previewed a new AI model that could reportedly translate speech from 101 different languages, which it presented as a key step toward a widely available speech-to-speech translation model.

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Source: PC Mag