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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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