Meta is launching a new program in partnership with UNESCO to collect speech recordings and transcriptions the company said ...

Tyrone Apak is proud to call himself a deaf person — but it's taken him many years to come to terms with his disability. The ...

Contributors will also need to provide pre-translated sentences and a significant body of written work in the target language ...

Meta seeks language data from speakers of less common languages for its open-source AI translation project, highlighting ...

When Aaju Peter was a child she was sent away from her Inuk community to learn the ways of the West, losing her language and ...

Meta and UNESCO are joining forces to advance open-source AI by collecting speech and text data as part of a new program to ...

By Asad Chishti Latest EntrepreNorth cohort gathered in Whitehorse last week A group of Indigenous entrepreneurs from across the North were in Whitehorse last week, learning about building sustainable ...

As part of the program, Meta is releasing an open source translation benchmark called BOUQuET — a standard test to evaluate ...

Pallulaaq Friesen's business is called Arctic Acting Inuit and is based in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. She is aiming to make language learning interactive with technology available now, using ...

Carla Beck, leader of Saskatchewan's NDP opposition party, says that U.S. President Donald Trump's musings about making Canada the 51st state are not appropriate.

The Inuit communities involved were Sanikiluaq, Grise Fiord, Kimmirut (Lake Harbour), Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Iqaluit ...

Canada’s hold on the Arctic is, in the words of former defence chief Wayne Eyre, 'tenuous' — and it is likely to become more ...