Google Maps gets better at pronouncing Māori placenames after years of complaints

Google has launched a new voice for Maps in New Zealand that can correctly pronounce te reo Māori place names, after years of ...

New Zealand finally gets a Google Maps tool that correctly pronounces Māori placenames

Language commission hails normalisation of te reo Māori after years of work in identifying frequently mispronounced words ...
The Business Times

From Hong Kong department store heir to outback cattleman: Inside Bruce Cheung’s US$130m wagyu gamble

When he was nearing 60, Bruce Cheung started a journey of self-discovery that took him along half of Australia’s coast Read more at The Business Times.
IEEE

Characterization of Speech Similarity Between Australian Aboriginal and High-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Dharawal

Abstract: Australian Aboriginal languages are of significant cultural and linguistic value but remain severely underrepresented in modern speech AI systems. While state-of-the-art speech foundation ...