{"id":224235,"date":"2026-06-02T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/adding-new-tones-to-ai-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:05:24","slug":"adding-new-tones-to-ai-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/adding-new-tones-to-ai-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding new tones to AI technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/folio\/2026\/06\/adding-new-tones-to-ai-tech.html\">Adding new tones to AI technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/folio\/2026\/06\/adding-new-tones-to-ai-tech.html\">https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/folio\/2026\/06\/adding-new-tones-to-ai-tech.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 03:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ualberta.ca\">www.ualberta.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the four key points of the article summarized in an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>* The talking drum, used by Africans for centuries, mimics human speech&#8217;s pitches, rhythms, and dynamics, encoding messages, history, and secrets, and thus serving as a unique communication strategy.<br \/>\n* Dr. Ife Adebara, an AI researcher and computational linguist, aims to integrate Africa&#8217;s rich and often unwritten languages into AI models, recognizing that tone can define different words in these languages.<br \/>\n* Adebara is part of a new group of 25 researchers in AI at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, focusing on bringing together experts from various fields to advance AI research, particularly in considering non-textual languages.<br \/>\n* Adebara&#8217;s mission extends beyond just data inclusion of African languages in AI; it also includes making AI tools accessible in indigenous languages to support users, while also focusing on language preservation and countering the societal status of foreign languages over indigenous ones.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding new tones to AI technology https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/folio\/2026\/06\/adding-new-tones-to-ai-tech.html Publish Date: 2026-06-02 03:09:00 Source Domain: www.ualberta.ca Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/folio\/media-library\/2026\/06\/260602-ai+x-african-language-ai-adebara-teaser-16x9-1600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224237,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224235\/revisions\/224237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}