Thousands of languages thrive across the globe, yet modern speech technology -- with all of its benefits -- supports just over a hundred. Computational linguist Kalika Bali dreams of a day when technology acts as a bridge instead of a barrier, working passionately to build new and inclusive systems for the millions who speak low-resource languag...

While the users of some of the dominant resource-rich languages are reaping the benefits of technology every day, this revolution has bypassed most of the languages of the world. In the data-hungry world of technology development, over 5000 languages have no resources to develop technology in them. Computational linguistics researcher, Kalika Ba...