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AI fails more than 60% of the time in some languages

September 21, 2026
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One statistic illustrates the problem. According to information shared around this announcement, speech recognition tools fail less than six percent of the time in English, but can be wrong more than sixty percent of the time in Yoruba, a language spoken by millions of people in Africa

One statistic illustrates the problem. According to information shared around this announcement, speech recognition tools fail less than six percent of the time in English, but can be wrong more than sixty percent of the time in Yoruba, a language spoken by millions of people in West Africa. And it is not just a matter of accent. A word can have different uses depending on the region, an expression can describe a medical symptom indirectly, and an agricultural recommendation can be absurd if it ignores the local climate, soil type, or actual cost of inputs.

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