Nigerian-American woman identified as Omolabake Adenle has won the DEI In Voice award from Women in Voice (WiV) for building a voice recognition and speech synthesis software for five African languages.
Recall that speech recognition is the underlying technology behind Siri and Alexa.
According to Adenle, it all started when Adenle’s cousins were learning English alphabets via an app and the former decided to build one that could help them learn the Yoruba language.
Thereafter she thought of upgrading the app by adding a feature that allows children to say something to it and the app will tell them whether they said the word correctly or not.
Source: UGC