Pittsburgh’s Duolingo, a free language-learning platform that includes a website and mobile application, is expected to release its previously announced Arabic course for English speakers on May 1. Such technologies will also help us improve our internal efficiencies while delivering better customer experiences.” “We are now integrating Amazon Polly in English with our automated call center for its quality and lifelike voice and to further enhance customer interactions, and looking to integrate Amazon Polly in Arabic soon. “Emirates NBD has been an early mover in the region in introducing an AI-powered virtual assistant, helping customers calling the bank to converse in natural language and access required services quickly,” said Suvo Sarkar, the company’s senior executive vice president and group head of retail banking and wealth management. That data center still is “coming soon.” AWS opened its second Middle East edge network location - in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates - last fall, after opening AWS offices in Dubai, UAE, and Manama, Bahrain, in January 2017. In 2017, AWS announced it planned to open its first data center in the Middle East - a location in Bahrain with three availability zones – by early this year, so AWS customers and partners could run their workloads and store their data in the region. However, it’s the linguistic thread that links the Arabic native-speakers worldwide.” MSA might sometimes sound formal because it differs from day-to-day speaking style.
“Zeina follows the MSA pronunciation, which is the common broadcasting standard across the region. “Used by over 400 million people, Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world,” AWS said in a post announcing Zeina, which was unveiled at the AWS Summit in Dubai this week. Polly’s Arabic-speaking voice is a female voice called “Zeina” that speaks in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), a standardized version of the language that is more formal than everyday colloquial Arabic, which includes 30 dialects. The artificial intelligence-powered Polly uses deep-learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice. The move allows developers to create applications that speak in Arabic and build speech-enabled products and services, including cars, internet of things devices, appliances, automated contact centers, language learning platforms, translation apps and newsreaders.Ĭloud provider Amazon Web Services yesterday said Arabic has been added to the list of languages spoken by Amazon Polly, the cloud service that converts text into life-like speech.
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