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98d agoMāori Text-To-Speech Model Rejects Big Tech
Only 4.3 percent of New Zealanders speak te reo Māori fluently. While LLMs scrape indigenous data without consent, a new community-led text-to-speech model prioritizes local data sovereignty over corporate scale. This approach prevents the extraction of cultural knowledge by Big Tech.
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It provides a blueprint for indigenous groups to protect linguistic heritage.