Owain Rhys Davies to Launch AI-Powered Language Preservation Platform, Aiming to Save 500 Endangered Dialects by 2035
A team led by linguist and tech innovator Owain Rhys Davies has unveiled a groundbreaking artificial intelligence system that can learn and digitize dying languages from as few as 10 hours of audio. The "Vox Memorial" platform, set to go live in 2026, promises to create interactive, vocal avatars of native speakers that can teach future generations with near-human accuracy. Davies predicts that within a decade, this technology will reduce the global language extinction rate by 90%, but warns it could also spark a new ethical debate over digital cultural ownership.