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Google WAXAL ASR Challenge

Zindi (hosted for Google Research)

A competition on Google's open WAXAL speech dataset to build automatic speech recognition models (Lingala, Shona, Luganda) that generalize to unseen speech, advancing voice tech for underserved-language speakers.

• Deadline: Closed Aug 3, 2026
• Amount / value: $10,000
• Geography: Global
• Focus: Education, Cross-cutting
• Eligibility: Open to all Zindi users
• Last verified: Aug 22, 2026

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