Speech Technologies for a Multilingual World

Explore how speech technologies can support linguistic diversity in this conference talk from NDC London 2025. Jessica Rose examines the challenges faced by non-English speakers in an online environment that often fails to support their daily languages, contributing to the endangerment of minority languages. Learn about Common Voice's efforts to create a multilingual, crowdsourced speech dataset that enables developers and researchers to build applications in diverse languages. Discover how speech technologies can lower access barriers, understand the dataset access issues restricting linguistic diversity, and envision a future where inclusive speech technologies support the more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world.