Google AI released WAXAL, a multilingual speech dataset covering 24 African languages for ASR and TTS. Uses image-prompted speech for ASR and studio-quality recordings for TTS. Addresses the data gap for low-resource languages. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/03/17/google-ai-releases-waxal-a-multilingual-african-speech-dataset-for-training-automatic-speech-recognition-and-text-to-speech-models/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch #Google