Nvidia’s use of Saudi voice data marks Kingdom’s global AI leap
AI expert Essam Al-Qubaisi says Nvidia’s adoption of Saudi voice data signals the Kingdom’s shift from AI consumer to global competitor.
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AIArtificial intelligence specialist Essam Al-Qubaisi has said that Nvidia’s use of Saudi voice data to develop a dialect model demonstrates that the Kingdom has moved from being an AI consumer to becoming a producer and global competitor.
Speaking to Al Ekhbariya TV, Al-Qubaisi added that Saudi Arabia now has an opportunity to build an integrated ecosystem based on high-quality Saudi data, robust infrastructure, skilled talent, and advanced computing capabilities.
US-based Nvidia, a global leader in computing and artificial intelligence, recently revealed that it relied on the Saudi voice dataset “SADA,” launched by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) in partnership with the Saudi Broadcasting Authority, to train its automatic speech recognition model “Nemotron 3.5 ASR.” According to a technical study published on its official developer blog, this collaboration helped nearly halve the model’s error rate in understanding Saudi dialects.
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