Tootfinder

Breaking the Barriers of Text-Hungry and Audio-Deficient AI
Hamidou Tembine, Issa Bamia, Massa NDong, Bakary Coulibaly, Oumar Issiaka Traore, Moussa Traore, Moussa Sanogo, Mamadou Eric Sangare, Salif Kante, Daryl Noupa Yongueng, Hafiz Tiomoko Ali, Malik Tiomoko, Frejus Laleye, Boualem Djehiche, Wesmanegda Elisee Dipama, Idris Baba Saje, Hammid Mohammed Ibrahim, Moumini Sanogo, Marie Coursel Nininahazwe, Abdul-Latif Siita, Haine Mhlongo, Teddy Nelvy Dieu Merci Kouka, Mariam Serine Jerid…

Breaking the Barriers of Text-Hungry and Audio-Deficient AI
While global linguistic diversity spans more than 7164 recognized languages, the current dominant architecture of machine intelligence remains fundamentally biased toward written text. This bias excludes over 700 million people particularly in rural and remote regions who are audio-literate. In this work, we introduce a fully textless, audio-to-audio machine intelligence framework designed to serve this underserved population, and all the people who prefer audio-efficiency. Our contributions in…