Everyone already has access to the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) artificial intelligence model released by the Meta company, which recognizes spoken language in 4,000 languages and reproduces it, that is, converts text to speech in more than 1,100 languages. According to the report of engadget.com developers used the Bible and the New Testament in the development of models, because that book is the most translated into different languages.
The company said that they have created two sets of data based on the Bible. The MMS project has created a database of New Testament readings in over 1,100 languages, providing an average of 32 hours of data per language.
Exploring unmarked recordings of various other books of the Bible, the number of available languages has been increased to over 4,000. The company admits that the content of the audio recordings it teaches the AI is religious.
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