Speech Technologies for a Multilingual World - Jessica Rose - NDC London 2025

This talk was recorded at NDC London in London, England. #ndclondon #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you: https://ndcconferences.com https://ndclondon.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and learn every day: / @NDC Follow our Social Media! https://www.facebook.com/ndcconferences https://twitter.com/NDC_Conferences https://www.instagram.com/ndc_conferences/ #programminglanguages As more and more users connect to the web for the first time, they’re often met with an online environment that fails to support them in the languages they use day to day. Limited language options on the web and in connected technologies doesn’t just leave individual users unsupported, but also contributes to pressures that endanger minority languages. Speech technologies promise a way to talk directly with the services and applications in our lives, but To help combat these pressures in speech technologies, Common Voice has curates a multilingual, crowdsourced speech dataset to encourage developers and researchers to build for their communities in the languages they use daily. Together we’ll explore how speech technologies lower barriers to access, how dataset access issues often restrict linguistic diversity and look at what a future of meaningfully inclusive speech technologies could mean for the speakers of +7000 languages around the world.