They aren't public. Agreed on commercially viable, even in Pakistan, businesses are price sensitive, currently there priced realllly cheap (just because they are small).
Yes! First goal is to get coverage ASAP. I think it will be easy to get dialects in with current model architecture. The hard part will be LLMs catching up on producing consistent text that respects the linguistics as we drill deeper.
Launched them through API. From a business perspective is to get adoption of voice apps in targeted regions. Some companies can now create voice agents etc.
If you have interest/insights in specific languages, would love if you can fill out this form so we can reach out in the future https://forms.gle/XA6nZbmBNK5K7GJv5
Hope so! It is great that it overall has a big impact on making knowledge more accessible (i.e Khan Academy using it to dub their content in minutes instead of weeks). But there are lots of other areas where it applies as well.
At the moment we are focused on making the models available through API so developers can make some cool things. We are actively monitoring to see if there is an opportunity that we will be better positioned to solve.
We are planning on hosting an online hackathon soon, so will suggest these things as ideas!
Gathering audio data online is not that hard, but getting it accurately labelled is challenging, as the speech understanding systems for those languages aren't there either, so we can't automatically do that
btw I did try to first make it with Pipecat and was having some annoying windows issues with getting libraries installed for daily etc. so I posted something that was easily reproducible for the tutorial...
The model itself can work well for new languages, its just the process of data gathering and maintaining high quality of data is what we have to figure out as we scale across languages.
Currently the model is only given data for these languages so it doesn't know anything else.
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I'm giving the course away for free now, it's just an intro course, takes 100 hours to complete and really focuses on problem solving. Great for non-technical people (I had young and a little bit old, like 45 year olds take it and do well). I'll just be glad if people make use of it.
Right, the portal by default has a 7 day free trial mode. So you can get access to everything and cancel without being charged. Anyone who is learning programming through Learnly will be there for a while to end to end, and is being monitored for by me. So it's not just you being on your own