[primitivesuave]

The output quality is remarkable. You mentioned that there are 1 billion illiterate people who would benefit from this, and I would add that there are at least 1 billion additional people who would benefit because they speak a regional dialect. There are many countries across the developing world where the AI tools and translation apps only produce output in the official government dialect (e.g. the Thai spoken in Bangkok, the Hindi spoken in Delhi, or the Mandarin spoken in Beijing). It would be interesting to see how a voice model could be "fine tuned" to better serve a specific regional dialect.

[zaidqureshi]

Yes! First goal is to get coverage ASAP. I think it will be easy to get dialects in with current model architecture. The hard part will be LLMs catching up on producing consistent text that respects the linguistics as we drill deeper.