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CO/AI news, African researchers release 9,000-hour speech dataset

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
Open African-language speech collection: 9,000 hours across 18 languages in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa (Gates Foundation grant)	Price observation	$2.2 million per programme of 9,000 hours	4 Sep 2025

Figures it feeds

$244 to $333 per hour of audioAudio and speech, cost to produce, per hour of audio