It’s been officially announced that the Koffair project has been selected for the GNI Challenge. We are very excited about working with Tilos Rádió, Civil Rádió, Nyelv és Tudomány, and the developer team.

Koffair will provide a toolkit for online radios to process their content, making large audio archives easily searchable through speech to text technology and a voice user interface to help the listeners find currently relevant parts of past stories, or just freely browse the vast amount of content radios have created over the years. This new type of engagement could make up for some of the disadvantages community radios have suffered from being forced out of traditional broadcasting.

https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/innovation-challenges/selected-projects/

We will open-source most of the tools, and we will provide detailed documentation on how to adapt the technology to your own language. Hopefully, this will be useful for speakers of other lesser supported languages too. Stay tuned, we’ll share further details soon!